🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC3H1WG Good’fell’as 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/20/dan-q-found-gc3h1wg-goodfellas/ A quick and damp scramble from the footpath above brought my right to the cache. SL, TFTC. Container seal has perished and logbook pretty wet; signable, but only barely.

🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC2BJTQ Noah’s Cache 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/20/dan-q-found-gc2bjtq-noahs-cache/ Came out for a walk with my Ruth and the kids. While Ruth sat on a rock and the kids went with their uncle up to explore a small cave above, I broke from the path to find this cache. Q

🆕 [Article] Actually, Yes! (that IS what my birth certificate says) 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/18/actually-yes/ There's a certain kind of person who, upon hearing my unusual name, immediately asks whether that's what's on my birth certificate (with an underlying implication that

🆕 [Article] For anyone who :has :not yet seen the magic of modern CSS 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/17/modern-css-magic-with-has-and-not/ CSS is all grown-up, and the combination of nested selectors, variables, :not, and :has unlocks a wealth of potential for interactivity and customisation witho

🆕 [Repost] Ideal Conditions Calculator 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/15/ideal-conditions-calculator/ Waiting for the ideal time to finally do that thing you've been procrastinating on? Greg's clever new micro-site will help you decide the perfect time to do it (and no, it doesn't n

🆕 [Note] Duck shunning 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/14/duck-shunning/ I’m not sure which of our children was last in this bath, but the configuration in which they’ve left their toys makes me feel as though I’m the subject of some kind of waterfowl-related shunning.Perhaps they finally got

🆕 [Note] 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/13/27761/ A few pockets of the morning’s freezing fog still cling to the hedgerows as the dog and I set out on a chilly West Oxfordshire morning walk. ×

🆕 [Note] 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/12/27758/ Obviously I wasn’t planning on going to the US anytime soon, but if I did… they might struggle with my visa application when I put every “email address I’ve used for the last 10 years” on, because I actively use a variety of catch-all...

🆕 [Article] CSS Lightbox with Alt Text Viewer 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/11/css-lightbox-with-alt-text-viewer/ Off the back of my details/summary-based semantic HTML+CSS lightbox, I've come up with a way to add Mastodon-like 'show alt text' widgets in the same way, and I'll

🆕 [Note] Free Deed Poll questions 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/08/fdp-question-diversity/ Since I relaunched freedeedpoll.org.uk three months ago (with new features) and made an explanatory demo video, the volume and kinds of questions I've been emailed has... become larger and more diverse

🆕 [Note] Minimalist Trees 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/07/minimalist-trees-2/ Not sure I’m a fan of these new ultra-minimalist Christmas trees. ×

🆕 [Note] Minimalist Trees 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/07/minimalist-trees/ Not sure I’m a fan of these new ultra-minimalist Christmas trees. ×

🆕 [Note] BBC Sports News (without the crap) 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/06/bbc-sports-news/ For the last few years I’ve been running a proxy of the BBC News RSS feeds (https://bbc-feeds.danq.dev) that strips out duplicate content, non-news content, and (optionally) sports news.This weekend, f

🆕 [Repost] Woodcraft Folk statement on the exclusion of trans children from Girlguiding 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/04/woodcraft-folk-statement-on-the-exclusion-of-trans-children-from-girlguiding/ Girlguiding UK recently opted not to modernise their articles, meaning that their interpretation o

🆕 [Note] Please Insert Dog 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/03/please-insert-dog/ We got our dog a Christmas jumper. My favourite thing about it is that its coat hanger contains instructions for use: “Please insert dog” 🤣 ×

🆕 [Note] Chinese Domain Name Scam 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/03/chinese-domain-name-scam/ I find a lot of these "this company is tried to usurp your brand with Chinese domain name purchases" emails in my spam folder, corresponding to my (many) domains. They're a scam, of course:

🆕 [Repost] Dithering – Part 1 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/02/dithering-part-1/ I already understand how using a threshold map to perform dithering works... and yet I still appreciated this amazing visual explainer from Damar Berlari.

🆕 [Note] Trams Rights 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/01/trams-rights/ Fellow folks at the interest-intersection of "public transport" and "queer activism" (I know you're out there!): I had an idea for a t-shirt. Do I print it? Or give up on graphic design and go back to ba

🆕 [Repost] HTTP is not simple 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/01/http-is-not-simple/ After discovering it through a Gemini newsgroup, I very much enjoyed Daniel Stenberg's (of cURL fame) explanation that contrary to what you might think, HTTP (even version 1) is not a 'simple' protoc

🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC76AG3 Hauta – Tomb 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/10/29/dan-q-found-gc76ag3-hauta-tomb/ Found after an embarrassingly long hunt! After reading the hint I quickly spotted the correct hiding spot, but said to myself "no, it surely can't be there" and moved on.

🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC8925F SkyWheel Helsinki 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/10/29/dan-q-found-gc8925f-skywheel-helsinki/ A quick photo before the family and I took a ride on the wheel!

🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC1JA6P Töölön kirjasto 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/10/30/dan-q-found-gc1ja6p-toolon-kirjasto/ Very easy find for the kids and I after a delightful visit to the Tram Museum. We went to the coordinates and instantly saw the cache! SL, TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK.

🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC1JAWP Sibelius Monument 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/10/30/dan-q-found-gc1jawp-sibelius-monument/ QEF while my family examined the sculpture. What a great spot for a cache, and so well-maintained. FP awarded. TFTC!

🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GCAJJP3 Kohtauspaikat – Virtual Reward 4.0 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/10/30/dan-q-found-gcajjp3-kohtauspaikat-virtual-reward-4-0/ The younger child and I nipped across for a photo while we waited for our tram to come.

🆕 [Article] Ten Pointless Facts About Me 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/04/ten-pointless-facts/ A 'ten questions about yourself' quiz is circulating the blogosphere, and I figured I'd join in (and wear four different hats, in the process).

🆕 [Article] The Signal and the Noise is still excellent 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/05/the-signal-and-the-noise-is-still-excellent/ 13 years ago I reviewed The Signal and the Noise by Pagan Wanderer Lu. Despite being knocked down at least one peg, it still stands among my top ten concept albums

🆕 [Article] Send Me a Postcard! 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/09/send-me-a-postcard/ Sure, you could leave a comment or drop me an email or say hi on Mastodon... but wouldn't it be cooler if you could send a physical postcard in response to a blog post? Let's find out together.

🆕 [Repost] A chat with 19-year-old me 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/10/a-chat-with-19-year-old-me/ Giles Turnbull's written a wonderful piece, imagining a conversation with his 19-year-old self. I wonder what I'd say to myself at 19 if I bumped into him?

🆕 [Article] Are you closer to Ireland or Scotland? 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/10/are-you-closer-to-ireland-or-scotland/ A throwaway comment in a WhatsApp group lead me to a deep dive into geodata encoding and drawing a big old line all the way across England (and a little way across Wales!). I

🆕 [Repost] The Piss Saga 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/11/the-piss-saga/ When somebody started repeatedly leaving bottles of urine on top of a utility cabinet in his neighbourhood, filmmaker Derek Milton decided to investigate. I watched the documentary he made while doing so and... I still have

🆕 [Repost] Two modes of Internet use 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/11/two-modes-of-internet-use/ Tracy Durnell keeps her online- and offline- friends separate, and describes some solid reasons to do so. I appreciate her thoughts, even where I don't want to apply her conclusions to my own life.

🆕 [Article] How I Learned the Pythagorean Theorem 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/13/pythagorean-theorem/ I clearly remember the day I first learned the Pythagorean theorem, because I had a problem I wanted to solve and a practical application that I wanted to use it on. Let's re-create the ex

🆕 [Note] Only Murders in the Building Season 5 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/13/mitbs5/ I really liked Only Murders in the Building. It started with a fun premise. It grew into something hilariously self-aware. I'd recommend it. But man, the fifth season had the most-disappointing reveal/con

🆕 [Repost] We Need to Talk About Botsplaining 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/14/we-need-to-talk-about-botsplaining/ In a wonderful blog post from last month, Stephanie describes the scourge of Botsplaining. Here's my experience of it.

🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q wrote note for GC88ZY9 The Devil’s Quoits 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/15/dan-q-wrote-note-for-gc88zy9-the-devils-quoits/ A local landowner has (controversially) decided to start enforcing their ownership of the land surrounding the lake at Dix Pit, and has erected new fences

🆕 [Note] Autumn Sunrise 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/17/autumn-sunrise/ Gorgeous autumn dawn this morning with a razor-sharp moon hanging above the shifting hues of the South-East. It’s going to be a cold one. (At last; it’s been an unseasonably-warm November so far!) ×

🆕 [Article] Beige Buttons 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/17/beige-buttons/ When was the last time you saw a computer with a reset AND a turbo button? Bet it's been a while. But now, thanks to a stupid web component I made, you can see one on my website... or your own. What does it do? Nobody

🆕 [Note] 30 Years Of Notices 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/18/30-years-of-notices/ This telegraph pole in the centre of Eynsham carries the scars of hosting countless community announcements, notices, and flyers over the last 30 years.×

🆕 [Article] I guess I’m never paying DreamHost back 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/18/dreamhost-payback/ About 17 years ago, I stopped using DreamHost. They later decided I owed them money. I disagreed, but enjoyed watching them incredibly-slowly claw it back via the 'refer and earn' p

🆕 [Repost] AI and cigarettes 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/20/ai-and-cigarettes/ Chris Ferdinandi draws parallels between people pushing 'less-harmful' AI and those promoting vaping as 'less-harmful' smoking; the latter, of course, ultimately resulted in new people taking up a

🆕 [Article] Postcards… from the Internet! 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/22/postcards-from-the-internet/ A few weeks ago I published a PO Box address to which visitors to my site can post postcards, to try to bridge the gap between my 'Internet friends' and the physical world. Today I

🆕 [Article] Pushing RSS to WhatsApp (for free?) 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/23/rss-to-whatsapp/ RSS remains the gold standard for subscribing to Web content... but WhatsApp Channels/Newsletters provide another interesting opportunity for syndication. If only somebody had written an RSS-to-WhatA

🆕 [Note] Happy Polyamory Day 2025 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/23/polyamory-day-2025/ Happy Polyamory Day y’all. (Plus max props to Petra without whom I’d have forgotten about it, like most years.)Closest thing I did to celebrating it was going out to the pub last night for beer and food wit

🆕 [Repost] SVGs that feel like GIFs 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/24/svgs-that-feel-like-gifs/ Back in July Vincent D. Warmerdam shared a great tip on screen-recording terminals into small, scalable animated SVG files, and I only just got around to reading it. Amazing stuff!

🆕 [Note] Male Surname? 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/24/male-surname/ This form dynamically changes the labels for the Surname and Forename field based on the value of the Gender field. Wut? Because a Male Surname is totally distinct and nothing like a Female Surname, I guess?!?

🆕 [Article] DOCTYPE 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/25/doctype/ I received my copy of DOCTYPE magazine, a genuine 'type this program in and run it'-style programming magazine but for a modern world, and enjoyed writing, debugging, playing, and then considering refining Stuart Langridge&#x

🆕 [Repost] The perils of doors in gamedev 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/25/the-perils-of-doors-in-gamedev/ Tom Forsyth recollects a bug that made Half-Life 2 unwinnable when built using a compiler to that supported SSE. A reminder of how weird the edge-cases in tech can be!

🆕 [Note] 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/26/enm/ Can it perhaps be time that we stop saying "ethical non-monogamy"? Nobody feels the need to say "ethical monogamy"; monogamous folks are given the benefit of the doubt and assumed to be practicing a relationship ethically. I feel

🆕 [Repost] How Online Privacy Has Been Championed by Dreamwidth 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/29/how-online-privacy-has-been-championed-by-dreamwidth/ Coyote's written some solid words about how well Dreamwidth are standing up for user privacy and liberty against an increasingly hostile and

🆕 [Repost] How Online Privacy Has Been Championed by Dreamwidth 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/29/how-online-privacy-has-been-championed-by-dreamwidth/ Coyote's written some solid words about how well Dreamwidth are standing up for user privacy and liberty against an increasingly hostile and