Kind: Notes
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Best Before
On his 40th birthday, Dan gets trolled by his breakfast.
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Look at Banner, Dan!
Dan's greeted by a happy birthday banner that MIGHT have been repurposed...
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**
Despite the fact that it's existed for 11 years, TIL about globstar in Bash. Set shopt -s globstar and ** globs become fully recursive, making that bulk transcode operation much simpler. 🤯
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Recursively repackaging .mkvs as .mp4s
for f in **/*.mkv; do echo "$f"; ffmpeg -y -hide_banner -loglevel panic -i "$f" -c copy "${f%.mkv}.mp4"; rm "$f"; done
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Sometimes, I miss Troma Night. Hanging out with my friends and watching awful/awesome films over pizza and beer.
If only there were a way to do it during lockdown?
Oh wait, there is: danq.me/homa-night/homa-night-2 -
Watched the pilot of Webbed Briefs by @heydonworks (of Every Layout fame). It's a sarcastic independent vlog about web technologies, so I immediately fell in love and subscribed to the feed...
Just kidding. It doesn't have a feed! (Yet?)
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With thanks to @wasdkeyboards, my new #keyboard can show some #Pride. 🏳️🌈 -
Needed new UPS batteries.
Almost bought from @insight_uk but they require registration to checkout.
Purchased from @SourceUPSLtd instead.
Moral: having no "guest checkout" costs you business. -
I'm unlikely to get a graduation ceremony like last time (on account of social distancing and whatnot), but I get a certificate to acknowledge my most-recent qualification.
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Dan's Office (360° Panoramic)
This week, some of Dan's colleagues are sharing pictures of their workspaces. So Dan made a 360° panoramic with interactive "info points".
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With #lockdown guidance as it stands, only six of the seven dwarfs can meet together in the park?
The seventh dwarf won't be Happy.
In fact, he'll be Grumpy.
Which is a problem, because that means one of the six is Sneezy. -
A new Automattician who started this week looked me up to thank me for the first in my series of blog posts about starting with @automattic. I feel useful! 😍
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Chafed nipples. But we only have Frozen II themed plasters in the house. So now I'm wearing an Elsa & Anna pasties. How did my life come to this?
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I think our local red kites were mostly living on roadkill, and the lockdown means they're not getting fed. They've also forgotten how to hunt: this afternoon I watched one get its ass handed to it by a medium-sized crow.
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For the benefit of my South African colleagues on Slack, I give you the #maskchallenge #emoji.