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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC2F23P A Road Anarchy – A40 Eastbound to Oxford
This checkin to GC2F23P A Road Anarchy - A40 Eastbound to Oxford reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. No logs here since… 2023!? Mindboggling. The geopup and I were out...
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[Article] Monday Punday
Have you come across Monday Punday? I only discovered it last year, sadly, after it had been on hiatus for like 4 years, following a near decade-long run, but I figured that if you like wordplay and...
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[Article] Cleaved
What’s got nine working fingers and shouldn’t be allowed to own a meat cleaver? This guy! Still got two working thumbs, though. I was chopping a swede with perhaps a little too much gusto and the next...
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[Repost] Bloomberg’s Terms
While perfectly legal, it is remarkable that to read a Bloomberg article, you must first agree to binding arbitration and waive your class action rights. Chris Messina (yes, that one: the inventor of...
View Article[Repost] Queers make the world a safer place
A straight white guy friend was complaining about not being able to find any gaming groups for WoW that weren’t full of MAGA assholes. He said he keeps joining guilds with older (60+) casual gamers...
View Article[Repost] Frustrating At Scale
Large companies find HTML & CSS frustrating “at scale” because the web is a fundamentally anti-capitalist mashup art experiment, designed to give consumers all the power. Miriam Eric Suzanne, 24...
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[Article] WordPress to ClassicPress
As I mentioned in my recent Blog Questions Challenge, I recently switched my blog from WordPress, which it had been running on for over 20 years of its 26 year history, to ClassicPress.1 I’m aware that...
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[Note] Spring is coming
A lunchtime dog walk was made especially delightful by the growing warmth of the approaching British springtime. It’s really bright and pretty out, this afternoon! 🥰 You're reading this post via the...
View Article[Repost] Get Ready with Me: Techfluencer Edition
WordPress.com (via YouTube) WTF did I just watch? It’s possible I don’t understand social media any more. To be fair, it’s possible that I never did. This is something between absurd and hilarious....
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[Reply] Reply to Blogging for traffic not design
Andy Hawthorne said: When you’re writing online, being unique doesn’t matter nearly as much as being found. I’m not sure I could disagree more. But I’ve jumped in half way through his post. Let’s...
View Article[Reply] Reply to Vika, re: Content-Security-Policy
Vika said: Had a fight with the Content-Security-Policy header today. Turns out, I won, but not without sacrifices.Apparently I can’t just insert <style> tags into my posts anymore, because...
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[Article] The Blind Piemaker
Ruth bought me a copy of The Adventure Challenge: Couples Edition, which is… well, it’s basically a book of 50 curious and unusual ideas for date activities. This week, for the first time, we gave it a...
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[Note] Wavey Dan
I was experimenting with VP8/VP9 WebM video transparency and I made a stupid thing: a URL that, if you go to it, means you’ll he followed around my blog by a video of me just hanging out in the corner...
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[Note] Goodbye, Slippers
Yesterday, owing to some plot, the dog didn’t get as much outside/walk/play time as she’d like. Today, she let me know how she felt about that by shredding my slippers. 🙄 🕵️ Subscribing to DanQ.me's...
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[Repost] AI Is Reshaping Software Engineering — But There’s a Catch…
I don’t believe AI will replace software developers, but it will exponentially boost their productivity. The more I talk to developers, the more I hear the same thing—they’re now accomplishing in half...
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[Checkin] Dan Q wrote note for GC9EXX4 Friar’s Farm – Bisected Byway
This checkin to GC9EXX4 Friar's Farm - Bisected Byway reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Checked up on this cache while the dog and I were nearby. It’s in fine...
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[Article] OpenStreetMap rocks (especially on foot)
Especially outside of urban centres, and especially if you’re on foot, OpenStreetMap is way better than Google Maps, Bing Maps, Apple Maps, or what-have-you. The area at the North end of Sutton Lane,...
View Article[Repost] Generative AI use and human agency
… 5. If you use AI, you are the one who is accountable for whatever you produce with it. You have to be certain that whatever you produced was correct. You cannot ask the system itself to do this. You...
View Article[Note] Fever dreams
Don’t remember the last time I felt so run-down. I’ve been unwell since Sunday with an illness I can only assume I caught from the 11-year-old, who’s been unable to keep food down for several days. In...
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[Note] For anybody who could use a break
Third day of being ill with what’s probably a winter vomiting bug, with one child home sick from school… and just having had to collect the other kid who started throwing up on his school trip… I...
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