The problem of "needing to be able to hear from two Bluetooth sources at once" is so real for me that I came up with a solution that I genuinely use all the time. You're not going to like it, though. | Continue reading
An open-source program that combines WikiData with a random generator to come up with almost-invariably inaccurate but sometimes hilarious facts. | Continue reading
Are geocaching log entries getting shorter? Let's extract a sample of 134,000 of them and make Excel cry. With graphs! | Continue reading
.well-known/feeds is a draft standard by which a site can publicise an OPML-based list of feeds (or other metadata) associated with it, that I literally dreamed-up last night. What do you think? | Continue reading
I do not claim to have a good explanation nor excuse. | Continue reading
This checkin to GC7Z2J6 Pinsley Wood by Olivia and Jessica reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. No luck here this morning for the geopup and I. The undergrowth has come through incredibly thick your summer, and we had to work hard to hunt in likely l … | Continue reading
Easy find while out on a dog walk. Not been out this side of the wood before! Might have struggled to find the GZ were it not for the remnants of a "geo trail" through the dense undergrowth, which was thick enough that the pooch's little legs couldn't take her the last 5 metres a … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC340EG Leslie reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I find myself in Cropredy but once a year, at most, and for the obvious reason. The festival atmosphere, not to mention the hordes of revellers, does not in general bode well for a s … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC340FP Sanders reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I managed to log most of the local geocaches during last year’s Fairport by getting up early each morning (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), while the other revellers were still nursing their h … | Continue reading
TomSka says sauce and toppings should go under hot dogs. After my initial reaction of shock and horror, I think he might actually be on to something. | Continue reading
Proud to say that danq.me is the newest site to be admitted into Kev Quirk's 512kb club. Let's keep the web lean! | Continue reading
There’s nothing special about reaching Inbox Zero in your feed reader. It’s not noble nor enlightened to get to the bottom of your “unread” list. Your feed reader is not an email client. | Continue reading
I've been adding bonus features to my blog's RSS feeds for a while now. Wanna hear about them? | Continue reading
Ruth and I celebrated our anniversary this week by going to the Isle of Man. Except we never got there and instead Ruth lost her job and I got sick. | Continue reading
Ruth dropped the dog and I off for a walk to a hashpoint while she collected some shopping. | Continue reading
This checkin to GCXWEX Villa View reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found with Ruth after coming out to explore the spectacular Roman villa. We’d supposed to have been out of the Isle of Man celebrating our anniversary, but our ‘plane got cancelle … | Continue reading
Next time you've got something to share or a personal project, why not start a blog? | Continue reading
Video version of my blog post about the video game that had the biggest impact on my life: Werewolves and Wanderer. | Continue reading
A single text-based adventure game I found in a book in the 1980s taught me more about programming than anything else I experienced in that decade. | Continue reading
Finally got around to rewriting my Mastodon introduction, now that my selfhosted server's got enough interconnection that people might actually see it! If you're on the Fediverse and you're not already doing so, you can follow me at @dan@danq.me. Or follow my blog at @blog@danq.m … | Continue reading
Collective nouns are great and all, but what if we had solitary nouns? | Continue reading
Morning walk with Demmy, first of her name, Queen of Stealing Your Spot On The Sofa, Empress of the Farts Of Doom, rightful keeper of That Gross Chew Toy, bringer of snuggles, destroyer of rosebeds, scourge of the mailman. | Continue reading
Meta are launching Threads tomorrow. If you’re wondering how this will impact the world and society’s social connections, I direct you to the predictive powers of 1984 British cinema. | Continue reading
Three years after first enjoying it, I re-watched this spectacular video of... a man playing sudoku. It's way better than it sounds, I promise! | Continue reading
This checkin to GC3742 SP9 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Well this was a challenge! The woods threw off my GPS, but I’d brought a backup device so I averaged between them and found a likely GZ. The dog and I did an increasingly large spiral, c … | Continue reading
This week, I spoke to a school group about the history of The Devil's Quoits. Perhaps I should be more-willing to share what I've learned in-general, even in areas where I'm still learning? | Continue reading
JTA's capability for nostalgia is something I've previously mocked, but now I think about it: I actually really appreciate it. | Continue reading
Today was not one of those days. A sarcastic video rant. | Continue reading
Lucy Bellwood shared the story of how her wife produced a breakfast dish they called The Eggs, and it's the first and only "here's a recipe, but first my life story" article I've ever loved. | Continue reading
I’ve soft-launched a bit of a redesign on DanQ.me: the old one was getting a little stale, and I wanted space to try out some new ideas! A major “theme” to my new design has been technical simplicity and performance. WordPress is great as a CMS, but the fact that it’s so easy to … | Continue reading
Maintenance check while walking the dog. Cleared some overgrown plants, but watch out because the nearby nettles ate still a little fierce (cache can be retrieved without a sting though!). Cache itself intact and healthy. | Continue reading
New TV series Silo's pretty good, but its credits sequence is just... excellent. Let me take it apart bit-by-bit for you. | Continue reading
I have minus 26 new articles in my RSS reader! Either I'm a time traveller, or there's a wraparound bug when you neglect your unreads for long enough. Both seem equally likely, if I'm honest. | Continue reading
Today was the first second full day of WordPress Europe 2023 in Athens. It was... busy. And intense. | Continue reading
Found! Took a bit of a search, because I had looked at the hint image which shows several trees at the GZ that are no longer there, so I was left thinking I must be in the wrong place for a while! TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK! | Continue reading
My first "full" day at WordCamp Europe 2023 was busy and intense, but I loved networking and learning about WordPress history and security and what's worth knowing about design and typography. | Continue reading
Today was Contributor Day at my very first WordCamp. I hacked code for WP-CLI and met some awesome people. | Continue reading
What a great statue! Cache was very easy to find; despite its camo it was very visible as I walked along the adjacent path. Thanks for bringing me out of my way on my walk from my hotel to the conference I’m attending, and TFTC. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK! | Continue reading
QEF once I found the right hiding place! TFTC, and for the excuse to divert my morning walk this way. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK! | Continue reading
Walking from my hotel to the site of a conference I’m attending, this morning, I stopped to find this cache. It took an embarrassingly long time for me to spot this sneaky little container! Greetings from Oxford, UK, and TFTC! | Continue reading
Saw the notification when this cache appeared near my house, which would normally be the point at which a race was kicked off between me and Go Catch for the FTF, before he inevitably got there first! But this time around I was overseas when the listing went live and only found t … | Continue reading
My team and I recently used a deck of Dixit cards to playfully work on refining our collective idea of our identity and our values. It turns out we're a D&D-like party of heroic adventurers! | Continue reading
Well that was quite the adventure! The first wayoint is right across the road from where some work colleagues and I are staying for an “away week”. I decided to dash out during a break in the weather to try and solve this multi between meetings. But I was quickly confused because … | Continue reading
Took until the fourth hiding place before I found the cache. Out for a walk with work colleagues on the way to dinner. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK! | Continue reading
Lately, I've taken to "travelling light", and it feels carefree and liberating. | Continue reading
The natural state of a child is to assume that their upbringing, their family, and thier community is representative and normal, so we all end up growing up with learned "quirks" that we don't discover until they're challenged. How many do you still harbour? | Continue reading
Today I learned that the quiet, high-pitched neighing sound horses sometimes make is called "nickering". I learned this from a subtitle which read "[horse nickers]". 🤣 | Continue reading