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[Note] Irish Signs
I’ve only been driving in Ireland for several days, so less than 100% of the iconography of the signage makes sense to me instantly, for now. But this one’s a complete mystery to me. Is this warning...
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[Checkin] Geohashing expedition 2024-11-27 53 -8
This checkin to geohash 2024-11-27 53 -8 reflects a geohashing expedition. See more of Dan's hash logs. Location Driveway outside a house in Garrafrauns, Co. Galway, Ireland. Participants Dan Q his...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC8E8A0 Challenge 💖 Virtual x 15 💖 Country x 5 💖
This checkin to GC8E8A0 Challenge 💖 Virtual x 15 💖 Country x 5 💖 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I’ve never much gone for ‘challenge caches’. Mostly they just bug me...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC8XWKX Shamrock #20
This checkin to GC8XWKX Shamrock #20 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My mum and I have been visiting Ireland on a geohashing & geocaching expedition. We’d...
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[Note] Dublin
Sooo… I’m in Dublin. I missed me flight at Knock airport, which turns out to have been the only plane leaving that tiny airport today. So I arranged a flight from Dublin tomorrow, extended my car...
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[Note] Goodbye Ireland
I’m leaving Ireland a day late, from the wrong airport, and with one fewer functioning arm than I anticipated. It’s been quite the ride. I’ll be glad to get home. (for those that are concerned: I’ve...
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[Article] Stuck in a Lift
I was a small child the first time I got stuck in an elevator. I was always excited by lifts and the opportunity for button-pushing that they provided1, and so I’d run ahead of my mum to get into a...
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[Note] Disarmed
In good news, my injured arm is not broken and should recover within a couple of weeks. In amusing news, the doctor who treated me recognised me from (tales of) my electric shock admission earlier in...
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[Article] 99 Days of Blogging
With this post, for the first time ever1, I’ve blogged for 99 consecutive days!2 The dots are sized based on the number of posts and broken-down by post kind: articles are blue, notes are green,...
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[Note] Morning, Sheep
Not quite ready for wintering indoors, our village’s hardy sheep are enjoying pasturing in the large field near the school this beautiful but chilly morning. 📰 Using a feed reader is the best way to...
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[Note] Cooking with Wine
TFW a recipe calls for a glass of wine but you can’t get the cork back in the bottle so you just have to drink the rest of it. Ah well, what’s a chef to do? 🤷🍷 🪄 Feeds are wonderful, and you're a...
View Article[Repost] kirby vs. this blog post
mgx A cute use of Javascript to make a fun post more-fun, helping to keep the Internet fun and weird. I want to do more crap like this. But meanwhile, I should show this post to my 8-year-old, who...
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[Article] Babies and Baubles
For a long time now, every year we’ve encouraged our two children (now 10 and 8 years old) to each select one new bauble for our Christmas tree1. They get to do this at the shop adjoining the place...
View Article[Repost] A Friend Used AI to Wish me Happy Birthday
… “I was sincere! I wanted to tell you happy Birthday but I wanted to have AI do it.” “Why?” I shot back, instantly annoyed. “Because I didn’t know how to make it lengthy. Plus, it’s just easier.” I...
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Happy International Volunteer Day! Volunteering rocks. As I’m on sabbatical, I’m in the lucky position of being able to spend most of the day on a volunteer project very close to my heart: Three Rings....
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My first task this International Volunteer Day is to test a pull request that aims to fix a bug with Three Rings’ mail merge fields functionality. As it’s planned to be a hotfix (direct into...
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Good news! It turns out that the new code to fix the mail merge fields in Three Rings doesn’t introduce an inconsistency with established behaviour. It was important to check, but it turns out all is...
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Not every code review is fireworks, but most Three Rings changes come from the actual needs of the voluntary organisations that Three Rings supports. Some of our users were confused by the way the...
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As well as the programming tasks I’m working on for Three Rings this International Volunteer Day, I’m also doing a little devops. We’ve got a new server architecture rolling out next week, and I’m...
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My Three Rings volunteering this International Volunteer Day isn’t all technical work. It’s also time to process the incoming postal mail. Our time as volunteers may be free, but our servers aren’t, so...
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