[Repost] The Duck Song 4
forrestfire101 Cast your mind back to 15½ years ago, when the Internet was delighted by The Duck Song, a stupid adaptation of an already-ancient joke, presented as a song for a child and accompanied...
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At work, we recently switched expenses system to one with virtual credit card functionality. I decided to test it out by buying myself lounge access for my upcoming work trip to Mexico. Unfortunately...
View Article[Note] CSS Cycling Gradient Text
An amazing CSS effect by Ana Tudor: Wow, this is real pretty! (You can edit that text. Really: try it!) I’ve only recently (thanks, Spencer!) gained any level of understanding about the use of SVG...
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[Article] Digital Dustbusting
tl;dr: I’m tidying up and consolidating my personal hosting; I’ve made a little progress, but I’ve got a way to go – fortunately I’ve got a sabbatical coming up at work! At the weekend, I kicked-off...
View Article[Repost] What the heck is going on with WordPress?
… Let’s play a little game. 😉 Look at the following list of words and try to find the intruder: wp-activate.php wp-admin wp-blog-header.php wp_commentmeta wp_comments wp-comments-post.php...
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This morning’s actual breakfast order from the 7-year-old: “A sesame seed bagel with honey, unless there aren’t any sesame seed bagels, in which case a plain bagel with honey on one half and jam on the...
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[Note] Heaven Can Wait
Harry Segell’s 1938 play Heaven Can Wait went on to inspire such an extraordinarily long legacy of follow-ups. I’ve only seen the most-recent few and my experience is that the older iterations are...
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[Article] We’ll Pay You to Go (so we’re confident in who stays…)
This week has been a wild ride at Automattic. I’ve shared my take on our recent drama already1. Off the back of all of this, our CEO Matt Mullenweg realised: … It became clear a good chunk of my...
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[Note] Pack Light
Think I blew Ruth‘s mind this morning when I set off for a week in Mexico with only a medium-sized, underseat-suitable backpack. But since working for Automattic five years ago I’ve totally been bitten...
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It took almost twenty hours of travelling but I made it to Mexico! 🤘 You're subscribed to DanQ.me using the RSS feed. You rock! 🎸
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[Note] Buenos días
Well this is a sight to wake up to. 😍 🧡 I love RSS feeds. And I love you for using them. 💙
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Max props to my employer for providing pronoun pins not just in a diversity of options but also offering blank ones for people not represented by any of the pre-printed options. 🦸 You're my hero! (For...
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Something I’ve long enjoyed about Automattic gatherings is the opportunity to meet some the most diverse characters you’ll ever find in one place. But today was the first time I’ve ever been at a...
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[Note] Tropical rain
It’s 05:30 local time on the third day of my work meetup in Tulum, on Tyne Caribbean Coast of Mexico, and I was just woken by incredibly heavy rain. I got up and stepped out until it, and was surprised...
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[Note] Five Cards
It’s a bit hard to perform close-up magic to an audience 40 metres deep, so I pre-recorded my favourite card trick! Then I talked over it, explaining to colleagues from my division why it’s my...
View Article[Note] Hurricane Milton
From safely outside of its predicted path, just around the Yucatan coast, Hurricane Milton seems like a forboding and distant monster. A growing threat whose path will thankfully take it away, not...
View Article[Repost] EXIF geodata, and what if you took a picture on the moon?
A conversation about staying private and stripping EXIF tags on blogs lead to shdwcat asking the question “what would happen if you took a picture on the moon?” … However, I figured we could do better...
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[Note] Goodbye Tulum
Goodbye, Tulum! You were delightful, if very hot. It’s time for me to head back to the UK. 🧡 I love RSS feeds. And I love you for using them. 💙
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[Article] Meetup Magic
I’ve spent the last week1 in Tulum, on Mexico’s beautiful Yucatan Peninsula, for an Automattic meetup. And as usual for these kinds of work gatherings, it was magical (and, after many recent...
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I’m back home from Mexico (and feeling a little worse for wear), where this young lady wanted to let me know that I was sorely missed. 🕵️ Subscribing to DanQ.me's RSS feeds means that you'll get to see...
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