Fun & Games
28 Fun & Games articles in total, showing 1 to 10
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The authentic, hand-curated Hipster menu crafter
Since the world, or at least the UK, seems to have decided to Gastrate all its pubs and the hipsters have taken over even once proudly grim local boozers, it seemed important to invent a tool to generate hipster menu items. And it should be written in vintage javascript, of course.So let me pres …
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The foundational questions that inspire computer languages
I came across a very amusing image the other day, dealing with the questions that various popular programming languages seek to answer. There is a nice thread on reddit with some extra suggestions to include in the list too.Here is a transcription.Python: What if everything was a dict?Java: …
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The automatic #corbynocalypse certain doom prediction machine
Everywhere I look it seems that another apocalyptic prediction about what will happen if Jeremy Corbyn is elected leader of the Labour Party. It seems that the Corbynocalypse is upon us. Fortunately the certain doom prediction machine® knows exactly what it will be like. Press the button, …
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Happy 11th birthday charlieharvey.org.uk
A mere few days ago — 27 June 2015 to be precise — charlieharvey.org.uk celebrated its 11th birthday. They grow up quick, don’t they? It is now officially old enough to go to big school, at least if the Tories haven’t closed all the schools yet. In internet terms, 11 is anc …
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2 new sites: nineties.website, Meerkats that look like Bruce Schneier
Today it rained most of the day. That, I suppose, is part of the joy of a British summer. The rainy weather conditions coupled with a rare non-work day allowed me to work on a couple of slightly silly websites that were rather fun to make and helped bring good cheer to my day._H_nineties.website_/ …
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Video: esoteric programming languages by TheBreakingBit
This recent video by TheBreakingBit amused me. The incredible creativity that has gone into creating languages that ar, let’s face it, a little bit silly is staggering. A favourite effort of mine that is missing from this video is Damian Conway’s fabulous CPAN module Lingua::Romana::Pe …
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Tomorrows World 1969: the bleak, lonely, sexist office of the future
I have a strange fascination for digging out old pieces of footage about the future. I don’t know why. Here is a particularly bleak version of how the future was to be, as foreseen in 1969 by BBC Tomorrow’s World presenter James Burke.A man in a business suit arrives at work. Wande …
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Tool: Get thumbnail images for youtube videos
Here is a small tool for grabbing the thumbnail image for a youtube video — something I sometimes need to do and always have to DDG or Google. There is a very helpful StackOverflow answer, which it is straightforward to implement in Javascript (have a look at the source code of the page).Upd …
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Video: What is internet? (1994)
I have a thing about old clips non-technical folks talking about the intertubes. Witness, for example The Kids Guide to the Internet from 1997. Here is a great piece from the archives circa 1994. I love the idea that @ is the about symbol. And that you don’7 need a phone line to …
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The simplest cleaning rota that could possibly work. Haskell edition
Living in a shared house can sometimes be troublesome; people have different living habits that can conflict with our own. In my house we recently agreed to start a cleaning rota to make sure that we were all doing our bit. The administrative overhead of a rota can be a pain, so I implemented a v …
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