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Even when it’s technical, not all of my International Volunteer Day work for Three Rings has been spent using our key technologies (LNMR [Linux, Nginx, MariaDB, Ruby] stacks). Today, I wrote some extra...
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For my final bit of Three Rings volunteering this International Volunteer Day, I’m working on improving the UI of a new upcoming feature: a spreadsheet-like page that makes it easy for administrators...
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[Article] International Volunteer Day
Today is International Volunteer Day. And because I’m in the middle of my (magical) sabbatical, I’ve had no difficulty dedicating what would have been the entire workday to a variety of volunteer...
View Article[Repost] Recreational programming
the world needs more recreational programming. like, was this the most optimal or elegant way to code this? no, but it was the most fun to write. Foone Turing Yes. This. As Baz Luhrmann didn’t say,...
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Here in Oxfordshire we’re nowhere near the epicentre of Storm Darragh, but we’re still feeling the effects. A huge tree came down and blocked the Thorney Leys road in Witney near Burwell Meadow and the...
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[Note] Bacon Solves Little, Improves Much
Even when you’re not remotely ready to think about Christmas yet and yet it keeps getting closer every second. Even when the house is an absolute shambles and trying to rectify that is one step...
View Article[Repost] Maybe Later
Maybe Later “Install update” Maybe later. “Sign in to access this content” No. “It’s better in the app!” Whose fault is that? “We completely redesigned this thing you need to do your job for no good...
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Today, while I cooked dinner, I introduced my two children (aged 10 and 8) to Goat Simulator. Within half an hour, they’d added an imaginative twist and a role-playing element. My eldest had decreed...
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[Article] Building another secret cabinet
Earlier this year, after our loft conversion work, I built a secret cabinet into the bookshelves I constructed for my new bedroom. My 10-year-old was particularly taken with it1, and so I promised her...
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Today I learned that you can use reportValidity() on a HTML5 input of e.g. type="email" to force the browser to run it’s own validation, without waiting for the containing form to be submitted (which...
View Article[Checkin] Dan Q wrote note for GC9GTV3 Drive Slowly; Fox Crossing
This checkin to GC9GTV3 Drive Slowly; Fox Crossing reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Checked up on this cache during a dog walk nearby. All seems good, cache is ready...
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[Article] Moving Three Rings’ Servers
Yesterday, I fulfilled the primary Three Rings objective I set for myself when I kicked off my sabbatical twelve weeks ago and migrated the entire application to a new hosting provider (making a stack...
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[Article] The Edge of Burnout [RSS Exclusive!]
This post is secret; you can only find it via my RSS feeds (and places which syndicate them). It's okay to talk about it or link to it, though. Thanks for being part of RSS Club! I imagine that many...
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[Note] Too Late
You know you’ve stayed up too late when… the milkman arrives and hands you your milk. 🥰 You're reading this post via the RSS feed. That makes you one of the best people on the Internet! 🏆
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Today I put 550 Christmas cards into envelopes, sealed them, put address labels on them, and stamped them. Because these were the “lick and stick” kind of envelopes rather than a self-sealing variety,...
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[Note] Xmas Post
At first I thought “Christmas post” had something to do with letters and parcels, but then I found one in the wild. 🤘 You're subscribed to DanQ.me using the RSS feed. You rock! 🎸
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Christmas Jumper Day at school, and I’m continuing my never-ending effort never to rest on my laurels, proving myself time and again worthy of my title of Most Embarrassing Parent. 🎗️ Using RSS feeds...
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[Note] Book Exchange
Our family Christmas Eve tradition, which we absolutely stole from Icelandic traditions (cultural appropriation? I’m not sure…) via some newspaper article we saw years ago, is a book exchange. verybody...
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On a midnight train back from a London theatre trip, somehow the 8-year-old is still awake (and reading comics to me!); the 10-year-old is understandably wiped-out. A fun night out though! 🌟 You're...
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[Note] Trifle for Breakfast
The fifth day of Christmas, and perhaps my last opportunity of the season to justify having trifle… for breakfast. ❤️🔥 You're reading this post via the RSS feed. You're on fire! 🔥
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