Hi, I'm Daniel 👋
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30 April 2017
Slow cooked lamb shoulder
This recipe is the result of a fair bit of experimentation and may need some... -
29 January 2017
3D game art from 2010
Whilst backing up an old hard drive, I stumbled upon a collection of game art... -
28 November 2015
Fun with Trigrams
Inspired by a recent talk about the benefits of code katas, I decided, this afternoon,... -
05 April 2015
Fuzzy search with Backbone collections
While bulding an autocomplete feature for a search form, I discovered the following technique. The... -
26 May 2013
JavaScript reduce
A while ago I was commenting on a Forrsters reduce (sum) function that he posted...
Side Projects
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Code The Future
Connecting teachers to developers to help promote programming in primary and secondary schools -
My Focusbook
Anecdotal note taking for teachers
Gists
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20 December 2014
Prevent touch event when trying to scroll on touch enabled device
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13 December 2014
Calculate distance from user given a lattitde and longitude
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11 October 2012
SCSS Mixin to replace width/height with dimensions
Books
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Confident Ruby
by Avdi Grimm -
Exceptional Ruby
by Avdi Grimm -
Understanding Computation
by Tom StuartFrom Simple Machines to Impossible Programs -
Javascript Design Patterns
by Addy OsmaniA JavaScript and jQuery Developer's Guide -
Functional Javascript
by Michael FogusIntroducing Functional Programming with Underscore.js -
Build a Ruby Gem
by Brandon HilkertThis book will guide you through the process of creating your own Ruby gem from start to finish.
Podcasts
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Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots
A general development / interview podcast from thoughtbot -
Radiolab
Well produced science and culture podcast -
This American Life
A weekly radio show from Chicago Public Media -
Accidental Tech Podcast
A sometimes weekly tech news roundup podcast -
My Brother, My Brother and Me
A comdey advice podcast for the modern era -
Giant Bombcast
Weekly game news roundup -
Reply All
A show about the internet -
RubyTapas
Bi-Weekly Ruby screencasts from Avdi Grimm -
The Adventure Zone
Bi-Monthly comedy DnD show -
Reconcilable Differences
John Siracusa and Merlin Mann try to figure out exactly how they got this way. -
Do By Friday
A weekly challenge show hosted by Merlin Mann, Alex Cox, and Max Temkin.