I had a nightmare last night in which I was underprepared for an upcoming D&D session. Because I am underprepared, I guess, but mostly because I was ill and sleeping badly anyway! | Continue reading
Max props to the developer of puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth. Saved me a ton of work circumventing Cloudflare's bollocks while I was trying to get my own data as recorded by my smartwatch. | Continue reading
Somewhere, in another timeline, the P3P standard is alive and thriving and saving us from cookie/privacy popovers. | Continue reading
Despite how much of DanQ.me is tokenised by ChatGPT, it still outright lies when asked about it. Why is this, and what does it mean for our use of LLMs? | Continue reading
My GPSr dropped me next to a far older bit of architecture than the one that hosts the cache, but found after a short search. I’m staying nearby as part of a charity hackathon for a nonprofit I’m involved with, but came out for a walk and an explore while between other tasks. SL, … | Continue reading
In response to a recent comment, I've written a recipe for getting "new" Far Side content into FreshRSS too. | Continue reading
FreshRSS's XPath scraping continues to be a "killer feature": here's how I'm using it to follow webcomic Forward. | Continue reading
I bought Zach Weinersmith's Bea Wolf for my kids (9 and 6, the elder of them already a fan of Beowulf). It arrived today, but neither of them have had a chance to because I wouldn't put it down. My favourite bit is when Bea and her entourage arrive near Treeheart and the shield-b … | Continue reading
Kev Quirk commits to continuing NOT to edit his old blog posts. I'm in the same boat. | Continue reading
The Jigidi jigsaw solver I wrote a year and a half ago stopped working, so I made another one (it's not as good). | Continue reading
Frustrated that nobody on the Internet has solved my problem for me, here's my guide to configuring Listmonk on an Unraid server. | Continue reading
After a long hiatus, Codex has returned with a vlog about Satoru Iwata's history as a game developer. Nostalgic fun. | Continue reading
As the last person on Earth to discover radio.garden, I was disappointed to find that you can't access non-UK stations from within the UK. So I "fixed" it. | Continue reading
WPTavern reports that Automattic is to acquire Matthias Pfefferle's ActivityPub plugin for WordPress, and I couldn't be more excited! | Continue reading
The dog needed a walk, so we explored North Leigh Common in the dark and found a hashpoint. | Continue reading
@SecurityWriter shares a story about repurposing a backup tape management robot as a barkeep. | Continue reading
Need all the UK strike action in your calendar app? I just helped a coworker with that, and I'm happy to share the results with you. | Continue reading
At a work meetup a fortnight ago I presented a "flash talk" about how I've made WordPress into a CMS for Finger and Gopher as well as the web, and what I learned by doing so. | Continue reading
Haggis tacos? Tattie scone quesadillas? Bean chilli stovies? I'm convinced there's mileage in Scottish-Mexican fusion cuisine, and I want to persuade you too. | Continue reading
For the first time in years, perhaps, I had that "moment of forgotting my dad was dead" thing. | Continue reading
Found with the elder geokid plus my mother and sister while on a layover in Preston to break up our journey from Aviemore to Oxford. We’re getting to visit quite a few some circles this half term, both old and new plus some old-but-restored, many of which have earthcache or virtu … | Continue reading
Travelling down from Aviemore to Preston on a multi-stage journey back home to Oxfordshire, we stopped off at the visitor centre and took the tour of the wind farm. My 6 year old loves wind turbines and was really excited to see so many in one place and to get the opportunity to … | Continue reading
An easy find for the geokids, Ruth and I while out on a walk with the geokids from Ruth’s father’s house in Reagill. SL, TNLN, TFTC. | Continue reading
A quick find while exploring the city after spending a few days meeting work colleagues from around the globe. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK! TFTC/DFDC! | Continue reading
Saw the cache almost right away but had to stand around for a while pretending to read something on my phone while muggles passed by. SL, TFTC. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK. | Continue reading
The second spectacular cache I’ve found from this CO. Absolutely amazing. Coordinates got me close, but it was only when I started looking around that I spotted something that didn’t look quite right and found the cache. Amazing work, FP awarded. | Continue reading
Superb cache, my favourite in Vienna so far. Love the design; I might try to make one like this back in Oxfordshire, UK upon my return! FP awarded. Coordinates put me exactly where I needed to be. Fortunately I had exactly what I needed to retrieve the cache: it’s something I alw … | Continue reading
A quick and easy find while I stopped to tie my laces. TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK! | Continue reading
I've been in Vienna for a week to meet work colleagues, and today - our meetings at an end and still with a few hours before my plane leaves - I decided to come out and find some local geocaches.At the GZ there were lots of good hiding places so I reached over and around. In a fe … | Continue reading
I found my first Austrian geocache on a "bridge over a bridge" near the hotel where Automattic are this week having a meetup. | Continue reading
Damage to the top of the hiding place gave me a quick clue for this one, even though my GPSr was misbehaving. TFTC. | Continue reading
QEF while taking a leisurely walk from Shepherds Bush to Kew Bridge. The hint object helped a lot. Greetings from Oxfordshire. TFTC. | Continue reading
With reference to great leaders I've worked alongside, a look at what leadership skills I admire in others. | Continue reading
Finishing my morning walk where, perhaps, I should have started it with the first cache in this enjoyable series. Took a while for a good GPSr fix and I walked up and down the path a few times before spotting the container. But then - disaster - this replaced cache has a brand ne … | Continue reading
Distracted by the cattle eating their breakfast and the increasingly beautiful sunrise, almost forgot to look for this cache. Read the hint but still didn’t have a clue until I spotted something out-of-place in a field. Sure enough, it was the cache. Nice hide! TFTC. This expedit … | Continue reading
Sunrise taking off in earnest now with reds and pinks on the horizon, and my spine – unhappy for sleeping in an unfamiliar bed last night – is enjoying getting a stretch from the walk, too. Stared right at this cache for a moment thinking “well that’s where I would hide it, but w … | Continue reading
I can see why the previous log moved this cache; pleased to see you be a good hiding place on the other side. Also pleased this wasn’t another nano! Light’s grown enough now to add a smiley selfie from the path. Greetings from Oxfordshire, and TFTC! | Continue reading
Got carried away with my walk and briefly overshot this one: realised as I reached the quarry road. Turned back and found the cache in the third place I looked. Said hi to a rabbit and the horses, up and foraging for their breakfast in the early light, before moving on. | Continue reading
This morning’s caching expedition just has it in for my back, I fear, with this one no exception. Nonetheless, a QEF in the first place I looked. TFTC! | Continue reading
A nonprofit I volunteer with has, years ago, held our Christmas bash at the nearby Fairlawns Hotel. We haven’t been in several years and – even though we missed Christmas itself by a full month! – decided to return here this year. I’m often an early riser, especially when away fr … | Continue reading
I use my password manager to generate TOTP second factor codes. I know this is controversial, with some folks claiming it reduces multifactor authentication down to a single factor and is therefore no better than just a username/password, but I disagree, and I can explain why. | Continue reading
My thoughts on Kev Quirk's learnings from ten years of blogging. | Continue reading
Our first in-person murder mystery party in a long time was a success, and a great time was had by all. | Continue reading
For the second time, the council removed a footbridge in which I'd hidden a geocache... but this time they didn't warn me first! | Continue reading
Beginning to prepare/test my costume for an upcoming murder mystery party, I glanced into the mirror and briefly didn’t recognise myself. Glasses can do so much to change your face shape! | Continue reading
Hasbro seem to be rolling up a new character. Maybe this’ll help them. | Continue reading
View Source shows nothing, but the page has content. The Page With No Code is the kind of puzzle that makes web developers unhappy. | Continue reading
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal The SMBC comic that came out this weekend was perhaps the best birthday present the Internet could provide. | Continue reading