Kind: Articles
Traditional long form content: a post with an explicit title and body.
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Replacing "love" with "butt" in song lyrics
As an early celebration of Valentine's Day, Dan channels his inner 12-year-old by replacing the word "love" with "butt" in song lyrics.
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Bypassing WordPress / Jetpack's "Prove your humanity:" CAPTCHA
Popular WordPress plugin Jetpack provides a CAPTCHA whose sole purpose seems to be to frustrate humans. It does nothing to stop bots, as Dan demonstrates with a browser plugin that circumvents it.
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On This Day In 2004
On this day in 2004 Claire and I hosted the eleventh ever Troma Night, a weekly event that became a central part of the social calendar of our friends for about six years. I've dug up some old photos, so I thought we might enjoy reminiscing about how young we all used to look.
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How I Became A Brony
Dan doesn't describe himself as a brony, but others might: perhaps it's the t-shirts?
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The Thing With Black Ice
Dan sketches an MS Paint-grade comic showing how his partner Ruth came off her bike on black ice, this morning.
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This Is Not What Juggling Looks Like
Graphic designers creating emoji characters sometimes make questionable choices. Like with the "juggler" emoji...
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Christmas Cheer with Bytemark
For the last eight years, Three Rings has sent Christmas cards to our customers and special friends. And this year, a special friend sent a gift back...
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When One Library Steals From Another
What happens when a university library completely rips-off the web design of a different university's library service?
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Bread Winner
Ruth and Dan go to a Festive Bread Workshop and spend a satisfying but exhausting day practising making five different kinds of bread.
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Carry Fire
"My dad'd love this!" Dan thinks as he listens to Robert Plant's new album, in the first case of him momentarily-forgetting-his-dad's-death in almost a year. It's a pretty good album, regardless.
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Jokes That Aged Badly
Why is Margaret Thatcher like a pound coin? Find out why, and then have the joke explained to you, here.
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GMail Tip: Use A Plus Sign To Avoid Spam
Surely everybody by now knows that you can use a plus sign in your GMail address to dodge spam and improve email filtering. Wait, some people don't? Let's fix that.
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Stones Under Yetzin
Dan's been running a roleplaying campaign for a few friends, and now that campaign's got it's own blog (not to mention a suite of companion apps, because... well, it's Dan).
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Playing Dead - Toddlers Gone Weird
At the request of a toddler, Dan spends an afternoon repeatedly re-enacting the circumstances of his father's death.
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AMP Is Poisonous
AMP, Google's technology that tries to make the mobile web faster by giving Google a monopoly over it, is fucking poisonous and it destroys everything that makes the Web great. Reject AMP!