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[Note] Castles and mazes
Possibly I’m a little late for the “casual daily puzzle game” party. (Did Wordle already get invented in this timeline; I forget?) I think there’s something in an idea I’ve been toying with. Bring on...
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[Article] Work Slippers
Last month my pest of a dog destroyed my slippers, and it was more-disruptive to my life than I would have anticipated. Look what you did, you troublemaker. Sure, they were just a pair of slippers1,...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GCAP4MF Church Micro 15127…Curbridge
This checkin to GCAP4MF Church Micro 15127...Curbridge reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I had an errand to run in the Windrush Place estate on the other side of the...
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[Note] Voice of America
In light of Trump’s attempts to axe Voice of America, because it is, he claims, “anti-Trump” (and because he’s so insecure that he can’t stand the thought that taxpayer dollars might go to anybody who...
View Article[Note] Steam Email alt-text improvements
I noticed that automated emails from Steam weren’t doing alt-text very well. Some image links had no or inadequate alt-text. (Note that Steam don’t support opting for plain text rather than HTML...
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[Note] Cherry blossom
When I was a child, we had a cherry blossom tree in our garden. In late Spring, as the flowers began to wilt, I’d enjoy shaking it to make flutters of pink confetti rain down around me. This tree,...
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[Article] WebDX: Does More Mean Better?
Enumerating Web features The W3C‘s WebDX Community Group this week announced that they’ve reached a milestone with their web-features project. The project is an effort to catalogue browser support for...
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[Note] More castles and mazes
Made a little progress on the game idea I’d been experimenting with. The idea is to do find a series of orthogonal (like a rook in chess!) moves that land on every square exactly once each before...
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[Note] Dog Tired
Woke up. Had a walk. Now it must be time for a well-earned nap. 💤 📰 Using a feed reader is the best way to read my blog posts. How clever you are to know that! 🚀
View Article[Note] Perfect bath
There are few moments of self-satisfaction so great as accidentally running a bath to both the perfect depth and the ideal temperature, after forgetting you’d started drawing the water at all. 🪄 Feeds...
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[Article] Feed Readers Beat Doomscrolling
The news has, in general, been pretty terrible lately. Like many folks, I’ve worked to narrow the focus of the things that I’m willing to care deeply about, because caring about many things is just too...
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Good morning, Oxfordshire! A freezing-fog farewell for me, this morning, as I get up early to catch a series of buses to the airport. 🦸 You're my hero! (For using RSS to follow my blog.) 🥇
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Next stop, Istanbul!* * not actually next stop; I’ve got a bus, a walk, a bus, and a plane left on this journey yet! 👏 Congratulations on being an RSS user. 🎉
View Article[Checkin] Dan Q did not find GC4Z033 WOW – Walking On Water
This checkin to GC4Z033 WOW - Walking On Water reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Gave up after an extended hunt, aided by the spoiler photo. All that’s hidden here is...
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[Note] Istanbul
Istanbul is… sprawling. I stood on this footbridge, over the water, to try to comprehend the scale of the place, but it’s just massive. The hills, which help the tall buildings to tower over you no...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GCB3FAQ The Grand Bazaar fossils
This checkin to GCB3FAQ The Grand Bazaar fossils reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I’m visiting Istanbul to meet with colleagues, but we took some time off from our...
View Article[Note] Kebab Menu Accessibility
Hanging with my team at our meetup in Istanbul, this lunchtime I needed to do some accessibility testing… (with apologies to anybody who doesn’t know that in user interface design, a “kebab menu” is...
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[Note] Team Desire in Istanbul
With visa complications and travel challenges, this is the very first time that my team – whom I’ve been working with for the last year – have ever all been in the same country, all at the same time....
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC67ZH1 Karakoy Tunel
This checkin to GC67ZH1 Karakoy Tunel reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF after a meeting in a nearby coworking space with some work colleagues from around the...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC892N8 Galata Tower
This checkin to GC892N8 Galata Tower reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My second visit of the day to the tower, has I didn’t have a working pen with me on the first....
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