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[Note] Dog Tired
Woke up. Had a walk. Now it must be time for a well-earned nap. 💤 📰 Using a feed reader is the best way to read my blog posts. How clever you are to know that! 🚀
View Article[Note] Perfect bath
There are few moments of self-satisfaction so great as accidentally running a bath to both the perfect depth and the ideal temperature, after forgetting you’d started drawing the water at all. 🪄 Feeds...
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[Article] Feed Readers Beat Doomscrolling
The news has, in general, been pretty terrible lately. Like many folks, I’ve worked to narrow the focus of the things that I’m willing to care deeply about, because caring about many things is just too...
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Good morning, Oxfordshire! A freezing-fog farewell for me, this morning, as I get up early to catch a series of buses to the airport. 🦸 You're my hero! (For using RSS to follow my blog.) 🥇
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Next stop, Istanbul!* * not actually next stop; I’ve got a bus, a walk, a bus, and a plane left on this journey yet! 👏 Congratulations on being an RSS user. 🎉
View Article[Checkin] Dan Q did not find GC4Z033 WOW – Walking On Water
This checkin to GC4Z033 WOW - Walking On Water reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Gave up after an extended hunt, aided by the spoiler photo. All that’s hidden here is...
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[Note] Istanbul
Istanbul is… sprawling. I stood on this footbridge, over the water, to try to comprehend the scale of the place, but it’s just massive. The hills, which help the tall buildings to tower over you no...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GCB3FAQ The Grand Bazaar fossils
This checkin to GCB3FAQ The Grand Bazaar fossils reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I’m visiting Istanbul to meet with colleagues, but we took some time off from our...
View Article[Note] Kebab Menu Accessibility
Hanging with my team at our meetup in Istanbul, this lunchtime I needed to do some accessibility testing… (with apologies to anybody who doesn’t know that in user interface design, a “kebab menu” is...
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[Note] Team Desire in Istanbul
With visa complications and travel challenges, this is the very first time that my team – whom I’ve been working with for the last year – have ever all been in the same country, all at the same time....
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC67ZH1 Karakoy Tunel
This checkin to GC67ZH1 Karakoy Tunel reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF after a meeting in a nearby coworking space with some work colleagues from around the...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC892N8 Galata Tower
This checkin to GC892N8 Galata Tower reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My second visit of the day to the tower, has I didn’t have a working pen with me on the first....
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[Note] Geocaching Convex Hull now includes Turkey
Thanks to finding a couple of geocaches here in Istanbul, my geocaching “2D convex hull” (the smallest possible convex polygon that covers an area), which I wrote some code to draw last year, just...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC6VTEG Galata Bridge #3
This checkin to GC6VTEG Galata Bridge #3 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. After lunch with my work team in a delightful restaurant overlooking the bridge (which I’m...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GCAJG5P The Two Mosques Virtual Reward 4.0
This checkin to GCAJG5P The Two Mosques Virtual Reward 4.0 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Here with worth colleagues on our “day off” from meetings and code...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GCAJHQ1 The Fountain of Sultan Ahmed III
This checkin to GCAJHQ1 The Fountain of Sultan Ahmed III reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Two virtual caches in such close proximity! And what a beautiful fountain....
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC7B79C Kız Kulesi/Maiden’s Tower- Virtual Reward
This checkin to GC7B79C Kız Kulesi/Maiden's Tower- Virtual Reward reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Went over on the ferry. Using my phone as my GPSr and also my...
View Article[Reply] Reply to: Is Not Answering the Thing Now?
Marc Thiele asked, in a post titled “Is Not Answering the Thing Now?”: Maybe I am just seeing this wrong, but I experience that a lot of people simply don’t reply to emails/messages these days any...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC6JQAX Rainbow Stairs
This checkin to GC6JQAX Rainbow Stairs reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I’d hoped not to need the spoiler image but after an extended hunt I gave up and used it. Soon...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC7B9C6 Heykel&Boğaz/Sculpture & Bosphorus- Virtual Reward
This checkin to GC7B9C6 Heykel&Boğaz/Sculpture & Bosphorus- Virtual Reward reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. As others have observed, this is a bit challenging...
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[Article] Delivery Songs
Here in the UK, ice cream vans will usually play a tune to let you know they’re set up and selling1. So when you hear Greensleeves (or, occasionally, Waltzing Matilda), you know it’s time to go and...
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[Note] Istanbul decompression
It wasn’t until I made time for myself to get out into the countryside near my home and take the dog for a walk that I realised how much stress I’d been putting myself under during my team meetup, this...
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For a little while I got to lie in the sunshine and read my book in quiet solitude. But before long I found I was sharing it with a small child and his noisy games console. Still delightful, though,...
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[Note] To-go pint
Sometimes the kids need to leave your pub dinner before you finish your drink, and you need to take a “to-go” pint. 🎗️ Using RSS feeds is a great way to keep up-to-date with my blog. Thanks for...
View Article[Repost] Bored of it
… Every article glorifying it. Every article vilifying it. Every pub conversation winding up talking about it. People incessantly telling you how they use it. I feel dirty using it. You know what I’m...
View Article[Note] Unacceptable language
8-year-old, angry: Give me that fucking thing right now! Me: [Child’s name]! That’s not an acceptable way to ask for something! 8-year-old, calmer: Sorry. PLEASE can you give me that fucking thing? 🪄...
View Article[Repost] My on-again-off-again relationship with AI assistants
Sean McPherson, whom I’ve been following ever since he introduced me to the Five-Room Dungeons concept, said: … There is a lot of smoke in the work-productivity AI space. I believe there is (probably)...
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[Article] Change Your Star Sign
My star sign is Aquarius. Aquarians are, according to tradition: deep, imaginative, original, and uncompromising. That sounds like a pretty good description of me, right? You can tell that I’m an...
View Article[Note] Redundant
Apparently Automattic are laying off around one in six of their workforce. And I’m one of the unlucky ones. Anybody remote hiring for a UK-based full-stack web developer (in a world that doesn’t seem...
View Article[Checkin] Dan Q found GC97N3H Lodge Hill C & D
This checkin to GC97N3H Lodge Hill C & D reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF as a cache-and-dash. This afternoon, owing to Some Plot, I needed to go speak to a...
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