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Just received an unsolicited marketing email from a company that I asked to remove me from their systems eleven and a half years ago (!). I haven’t heard from them since then. The marketing email is...
View Article[Checkin] Dan Q did not find GC448J6 EL TRESOR DEL POU DEL MON
This checkin to GC448J6 EL TRESOR DEL POU DEL MON reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The geokids and I had to give up after an extended search. We solved the riddle (we...
View Article[Repost] The Time Travel Movie That Doesn’t Move
Nerdwriter1 (YouTube) When I saw the title of this piece by The Nerdwriter pop up in my RSS reader, the first words that grabbed my attention were “time travel movie”. I’ve a bit of a thing for time...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GCAA274 Garrigues #23 – El Vilosell
This checkin to GCAA274 Garrigues #23 - El Vilosell reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The geokids and I are staying nearby and came out for a walk this morning to...
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Okay, is every company using AI to fuck up their mailing lists, now? For the second time this week I’ve received an email from a company whom I’d explicitly demanded cease processing my PII. This time,...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GCAAD6C El pont sobre el riu #14 Set a La Pobla Cérvoles
This checkin to GCAAD6C El pont sobre el riu #14 Set a La Pobla Cérvoles reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My family and I are staying in El Vilosell, so this morning...
View Article[Repost] Bluesky and enshittification
… Any system where users can leave without pain is a system whose owners have high switching costs and whose users have none. An owner who makes a bad call – like removing the block function say, or...
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[Repost] 3D Workers Island
Tony Domenico If you’ve come across Tony Domenico’s work before it’s probably as a result of web horror video series Petscop. 3D Workers Island… isn’t quite like that (though quick content warning: it...
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[Article] Sabbatical Magic
A couple of weeks ago, I kicked off my first sabbatical since starting at Automattic a little over five years ago1. The first weekend of my sabbatical might have set the tone for a lot of the charity...
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As the kids grow older… someday our final soft play session – something we used to do all the time, and now do only rarely – will be in the past. But for now, at least, it remains a chaotic way to tire...
View Article[Note] Go back to bed!
Things my children have gotten out of bed to say to me tonight: I don’t want to go to school tomorrow I can’t find [name of toy] I want [name of toy I lent to my sibling] back if I’m ill, I don’t have...
View Article[Repost] Hey Google, pronounce...
… Jonty Wareing Wait, it isn’t supposed to be pronounced “clan via Pokemon Go garage city of cocoa”? I’ve been saying it wrong my whole life! 😅 🪄 Feeds are wonderful, and you're a wonderful person for...
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[Note] My Car is Sad
All! The! Warning! Lights! By the time a car needs to pahinate the error messages it wants to display, something has definitely gone wrong. 😬 👏 Congratulations on being an RSS user. 🎉
View Article[Repost] Build Colors from Colors with CSS Relative Color Syntax
… The feature here is that you can take a color you already have and manipulate its components. Which things you can change vary by the color space you choose, so for an RGB color you can change the...
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[Note] Quesapizza Lunch
After a morning of optimising a nonprofit’s reverse proxy configuration, I feel like I’ve earned my lunch! Four cheese, mushroom and jalapeño quesapizzas, mmm… 🧨 RSS is dynamite! Thanks for subscribing...
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[Article] XPath Scraping AdamKoszary.co.uk
Adam Koszary – whom I worked alongside at the Bodleian – the social media specialist who brought the “absolute unit” meme to the masses, started blogging earlier (again?) this year. Yay! But he’s...
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[Note] Any Cup
In spite of their signage, Costa weren’t happy to take my old jockstrap for recycling. 🕵️ Subscribing to DanQ.me's RSS feeds means that you'll get to see secret bonus posts not publicised on the main...
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Future Arimaa grand masters at practice, this Sunday morning boardgaming session. 🦸 You're my hero! (For using RSS to follow my blog.) 🥇
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[Checkin] Geohashing expedition 2024-11-10 51 -1
This checkin to geohash 2024-11-10 51 -1 reflects a geohashing expedition. See more of Dan's hash logs. Location Barnard Gate, where the A40 cycleway briefly diverges from the main road. Participants...
View Article[Note] Enumerating Domains
I’ve just enumerated my personal domain names. There’s a lot fewer of them than there used to be!1 Anyway: here’s the list – danq.me and a variety of aliases (danq.uk, danq.dev, danq.link, danq.blog,...
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