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Counting Down
I wasn't sure that my whiteboard at the Bodleian, which reminds my co-workers exactly how many days I've got left in the office, was attracting as much attention as it needed to. If I don't know what my colleagues don't know about how I do my job, I can't write it into my handover notes.
So IAutomattic Recruitment (days -179 to -51)
128 days ago I applied to work at Automattic Inc. Here's the deeper story about how that went:
https://danq.me/2019/08/30/automattic-00/Pong
Yesterday was World Digital Preservation Day (and Pong's 46th birthday), so I reimplemented Pong for the video wall at the Bodleian Libraries.
Full story, pics, and source code: https://danq.me/2018/11/30/pong/An Unusual Workday
Not every workday includes bear masks, augmented reality, pop-culture podcasting, and ethical hacking. But today, mine did: https://danq.me/2018/10/12/an-unusual-workday/Bureaucracy vs. Common Sense
In addition to the pension I get from my "day job" employer, I maintain a pension pot with a separate private provider which I top up with money from my freelance work. I logged in to that second pension provider's (reliably shonky, web-standards-violating) website about a month ago and found that gender, pensions, work