Tag: open source
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DNDle (Wordle, but with D&D monster stats)
Dan releases DNDle, a Wordle clone where you assign characteristics to try to guess the Dungeons and Dragons monster-of-the-day.
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Minification vs the GPL
Does distributing only minified code violate the GPL? What about if the "minification" is minimal and hand-done as part of other code improvements? There's a grey area here, and Dan's going to overthink it!
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From Synergy to Barrier
Disenchanted by a lack of platform support, Dan switches from Synergy to its fork, open-source competitor Barrier.
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Heatmapping my Movements
Leveraging a decade of past GPS data, Dan draws heatmaps of his movements around Oxfordshire.
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Spy's Guidebook Reborn
When his 7-year-old asks Dan to print some crib from Usborne's Spy's Guidebook, he goes one step further and reimplements the cipher in Javascript.
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Wix and Their Dirty Tricks
Dan shares a post by Matt about Wix's awful new advertising campaign, and adds his own summary.
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Review for ProtonMail Encryption Status by Morgan Larosa
The first review for Dan's first Thunderbird plugin gives it... five stars! Hurrah!
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Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back
As they bring back the youtube-dl repository, GitHub announce a new set of standards by which they'll assess DMCA claims. Dan approves, and explains why.
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Displaying ProtonMail Encryption Status in Thunderbird
Dan releases his first Thunderbird plugin, for improving integration with ProtonMail Bridge.
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Syncthing
This month, Dan's in love with Syncthing, software that keeps his household's data where it needs to be.
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Identifying Post Kinds in WordPress RSS Feeds
Dan shares the code he's written to improve Indieweb Post Kinds support in his RSS feeds.
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City Roads
City Roads, by Andrei Kashcha, is an open source project for extracting highway data from OpenStreetMap and rendering it as simplistic SVG files.
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Cheating Hangman
Dan implements "Cheating Hangman", perhaps the cruellest hangman game you'll ever play.
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Counting Down
I wasn't sure that my whiteboard at the Bodleian, which reminds my co-workers exactly how many days I've got left in the office, was attracting as much attention as it needed to. If I don't know what my colleagues don't know about how I do my job, I can't write it into my handover notes.
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LABS Comic RSS Archive
For the benefit of anybody wanting to read LABS comic from the beginning in their RSS reader, Dan writes a tool to facilitate that.