[Repost] I bought a Sony Walkman π
Andreas bought and restored an old Sony Walkman and the entire journey is a wonderfully-written journey down memory lane, coupled with some learnings [...]
Dan Q
Posts
[Repost] British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres π
In March 8, 2026, British Columbia moved their clocks to a year-round Pacific Daylight Savings Time, and doubtless broke a lot of software. Every time [...]
[Article] Exploiting Thoughtcrime in LLMs π
New malware variants seem to include source code comments about how to build WMDs, presumably in an effort to hamper analysis by AI-based tools. I fin [...]
[Repost] Taking A Dive π
I had a second submission accepted to Curious Cones, one of the most-wonderful but also silly blogs I follow. But my third attempt came out blurry and [...]
[Note] Ramming speed! π
Trouble brewing at the village carnivalβs decorated-bike competition as, for perhaps the first time in history, a viking longship rams and boards an X [...]
[Article] A postcard from a distant friend π
I received another postcard-from-the-Internet... this one, with a chunky KererΕ« on it, from my antipodal real-life friend Ele! [...]
[Article] You donβt have to blog like me π
You don't have to have a blog like me. You just need to blog. Blog blog blog. Blog possibly should not be used as a verb, as I blog about here. [...]
[Repost] Garbage for humans π
unstory observed that Cloudflare's 'Markdown for machines' feature means that the simplified output given by some websites to LLMs will be superior to [...]
[Note] Doggone Gorgeous π
Dad Joke of the Day came to me early when some fellow dog walkers coming the other way said βHello, gorgeous!β βOoh, thank you!β I replied, nonchalant [...]
[Reply] Re: How do I go back to the library? [RSS Exclusive!] π
Evan's done with Twitter and Reddit. But where should he go next? I make some suggestions. [...]
[Repost] Maybe βis AI a bubble?β is the wrong question π
Emile Silvis asks 'is AI a bubble?' and delivers a concise and balanced view of the key factors - clocks, in this case - that impact the related quest [...]
[Note] Lorem Ipsum Thank You For Your Enquiry π
Always reassuring when you fill in a company's contact form and the next page is placeholder text... [...]
[Article] How the European heatwave fucked me up π
I've been somewhat-offline for the last few days, after a heatwave lead to a heat illness lead to an opportunistic infection lead to me lying in bed a [...]
[Note] A Litre of Coffee π
Some mornings... you just gotta make a whole damn litre of coffee. (for iced coffee purposes, of course; and definitely not just for me!) [...]
[Note] Hot Dog Mess π
Demmy would like to know why I haven't turned off the UK's heatwave yet. π₯΅ [...]
[Note] Iced coffee and air con π
Iced coffee and air con. Possibly the only things thatβll keep me sane, working in the UKβs current heatwave (especially with the schools closed and k [...]
[Repost] What Was Matt Thinking? π
Ernie Smith from Tedium wrote about Matt's Script Archive, which back in the 1990s was a big part of how and why I learned to code in Perl. Let's take [...]
[Note] F-Day plus 130 π
A hundred and thirty days since we got flooded out of our home, and remedial works are starting to ramp up. Today an electrician, tracing a fault that [...]
[Repost] Setting the width of selects to the width of the selected option π
Sometimes a new CSS feature comes along and I immediately "get it". Like: that's a cool new feature, I can already see how it'll save me time, or make [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC9P505 Paddington Bear & friends (Leicester Square) π
A morning meander around the local (mostly virtual) caches under the guise of checking the condition of the West End Live queue, while the rest of my [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GCBJ704 Seven Dials Sundial π
Approaching from the West I was foiled by the glare of the rising sun in my efforts to claim this fascinating monument from afar and eventually had to [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC38EQ3 Underground π
Initially thought I'd be able to find this one without the hint, but when I couldn't get fix to closer than 8m I took a peep at it and was instantly a [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC240NQ West End 1 β The Beatles π
Stood around for a bit reading about David Bowie while I waited for the waitstaff -on their pre-work fag break down the alleyway - stopped their muggl [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC5E4E Catastrophe, Calamity, Cataclysm Part 4 π
Can't do the physical today, but scooping a pic with the virtual during a morning walk around the neighbourhood. [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GCAJJCJ Piccadilly Circus (Virtual Reward 4.0) γ π
After nine hours on my feet yesterday queuing for and then attending the first day of West End Live in Trafalgar Square, I somehow decided that the be [...]
[Note] Bus LAN π
Star network topologies are more common, but you can still occasionally find these... [...]
[Note] Theatreland Double Takes π
Hanging out in Londonβs theatreland, attracting double-takes (and a handful of thumbs-ups!) for my t-shirtβ¦ [...]
[Note] West End Live queue π
Back of the queue for West End Live. Itβs gonna be a long wait, but hopefully worth it! [...]