Scatmania

This is part of a series of posts on computer terminology whose popular meaning - determined by surveying my friends - has significantly diverged from its original/technical one. Read more evolving words...

The language we use is always changing, like how the word "cute" was originally a

https://danq.me/2019/11/12/gif/

This is part of a series of posts on computer terminology whose popular meaning - determined by surveying my friends - has significantly diverged from its original/technical one. Read more evolving words...

Until the 17th century, to "fathom" something was to embrace it. Nowadays, it's more

https://danq.me/2019/11/05/broadband/

I now have no doubt that from the summit of Table Mountain is an absolutely unparalleled place from which to watch the sunset. 🇿🇦🌅😍



Original: https://danq.me/2019/11/03/16034/

This is part of a series of posts on computer terminology whose popular meaning - determined by surveying my friends - has significantly diverged from its original/technical one. Read more evolving words...

A few hundred years ago, the words "awesome" and "awful" were synonyms. From their

https://danq.me/2019/10/31/virus/

Eight years, six months, and one week after I started at the Bodleian, we've gone our separate ways. It's genuinely been the nicest place I've ever worked; the Communications team are a tightly-knit, supportive, caring bunch of diverse misfits and I love them all dearly, but the time had come for

https://danq.me/2019/10/17/without-the-bod/

Some years ago, a friend of mine told me about an interview they'd had for a junior programming position. Their interviewer was one of that particular breed who was attached to programming-test questions: if you're in the field of computer science, you already know that these questions exist. In

https://danq.me/2019/10/09/time-efficient-shuffling/

Are you still reading my blog and getting updates via LiveJournal? Keeping it oldschool, man! If you'd like to drag yourself from circa 2001 up to circa 2006, you can subscribe by email instead. No pressure, just if it's right for you: https://danq.me/2019/10/01/email/

When I arrived at this weekend's IndieWebCamp I still wasn't sure what it was that I would be working on. I'd worked recently to better understand the ecosystem surrounding DanQ.me and had a number of half-formed ideas about tightening it up. But instead, I ended up expanding the reach of my

https://danq.me/2019/09/30/indiewebcamp-oxford-2019/

A long while ago, inspired by Nick Berry's analysis of optimal Hangman strategy, I worked it backwards to find the hardest words to guess when playing Hangman. This week, I showed these to my colleague Grace - who turns out to be a fan of word puzzles - and our conversation inspired me to go a

https://danq.me/2019/09/26/cheatman/

This afternoon, the kids and I helped with some citizen science as part of the Thames WaterBlitz, a collaborative effort to sample water quality of the rivers, canals, and ponds of the Thames Valley to produce valuable data for the researchers of today and tomorrow.



My two little science

https://danq.me/2019/09/21/waterblitz-2019/