[Repost] Tangled earphones were a feature, not a bug. π
Akshay Chugh misses wired headphones for the anti-feature that they'd inevitably tangle up in your pocket. I echo his sentiment, and add a few other o [...]
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[Article] Top 100 Geohasher π
I'm now in the top-hundred geohashers! But the exciting achievement is that I upgraded geohashing.site from MediaWiki 1.31 to 1.43, after leaving it s [...]
[Note] Slash pages π
My newly-revamped personal site has an almost full suite of slash pages; something I'd been meaning to do for a while: https://danq.me/slashes Still n [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC46YDF Second Row - Ball Retention π
This checkin to GC46YDF Second Row - Ball Retention reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found lying on the ground, in t [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC46YCV Lock - Hanging Bison π
A quick find for the geohound and I while walking back to Tackley (via the TP6298 trigpoint up on the rise to the North) from the 2026-09-27 51 -1 geo [...]
[Checkin] Geohashing expedition 2026-09-27 51 -1 π
I woke early and grumpy and, to try to shake myself out of a funk, went out with the dog in search of a geohashpoint near a trigpoint in a field near [...]
[Repost] Thanking is an action applying to one visible thing π
"Thanking is an action applying to one visible thing." is a literal line in the source code of one of my favourite video games, blackle mori observes. [...]
[Article] Styling :visited links using hue-rotation π
My new site theme offers a :visited link style, but for convenience it's based on a CSS hsl-transformation. Here's how it works... [...]
[Note] DanQ.me, 2026 Edition π
After months of minor tweaks, on-and-off, I finally bit the bullet and hit "publish" on my new theme for DanQ.me. It's not perfect; it's got all kinds [...]
[Note] content-visibility: hidden; π
Here's a neat trick. I've got a web page with many HTML popovers, styled as modals to create a no-JS gallery/lightbox. But LCP suffers because the bro [...]
[Repost] Polyday Politics workshop π
Grant ran a workshop on politics (and law) around polyamory, at a recent event. I wasn't there, but enjoyed reading his notes after-the-fact... and wa [...]
[Article] Browser vertical tabs are great (and they're older than you think!) π
A conversation about the invention of browsers with (the option of) vertical tabs reminded me of how brilliant they are. I used them back in 2000, and [...]
[Article] Things Champ'd Up thinks are uniquely American π
When I play Jackbox Games with my friends, I enable the 'filter US-centric content'. But what does that actually do? Let's swiftly do a bit of easy re [...]
[Repost] Your phone is not the problem π
Following the discussions in the blogsphere lately about our relationships with our phones, I'd like to echo Antonio Santos' sentiments, and add a few [...]
[Note] Pence Per Sht π
Every time I see Sainsburys comparing the value-for-money of different brands of toilet roll, the abbreviation they use catches me out and I think the [...]
[Article] WordArt is still supported... in Microsoft Outlook! π
25 years ago, WordArt was everywhere. Nowadays, it's been quietly expunged from Microsoft Office. Except... Outlook, via a series of complicated hacks [...]
[Video] What Should William Do? [RSS Exclusive!] π
I'm just doing my annual Preventing Workplace Harassment training at work, and one clip in particular stood out as... especially half-hearted. [...]
[Note] F-Day plus 214 π
It's been 214 days since I had to evacuate my house following a flood, and repair work is (intermittently) underway. And there are so-many moving piec [...]
[Article] A Postcard from a Labyrinth Artist π
Another Postcard From The Internet landed on my doormat this week... and it's from a real-life labyrinth designer and artist based in Canada. So cool! [...]
[Repost] On Publishing Your Salary π
Kev Quirk observes that of folks who (like me) choose to share their salary online, there's likely to be a skew towards higher salaries. What can we d [...]
[Reply] Re: How I made... π
Noah S shared how he used some PHP code to block specific badly-behaved bots from his website. I've got a few suggestions to help him make his block f [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q did not find GC3C7FT Woodies π
This checkin to GC3C7FT Woodies reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. After seeking (and finding, surprisingly) the 2026- [...]
[Checkin] Geohashing expedition 2026-09-13 51 -1 π
A successful geohashing expedition to a swampy area near Woodstock, despite an incident during which I was attacked by a wasp whom I'd attempted to sq [...]
[Repost] Opusfived π
MiloΕ‘ NovoviΔ's experimental interactive fiction is a silly (but with a grain of truth!) simulation of what it feels like to attempt to use vibe-codin [...]
[Repost] Hot new laptop features π
Earlier this summer Chad Comello's 7-year-old son built a laptop from paint and cardboard and it's got some kickass features that you can't get from a [...]
[Repost] Automattic Minus Matt π
There's a lot of tech press this morning about the involuntary ousting of my former boss Matt Mullenweg from his CEO position at Automattic. Ernie Smi [...]
[Note] Pixel Area π
Pixel Area (@pxlarea@mastodon.social) launched a couple of weeks ago, and DanQ.me was selected to be one of the initial "seed" blogs that were there a [...]
[Note] Sundog π
That moment when you realise that you forgot your sunglasses but figure you'll just squint. [...]
[Repost] Use Firefox π
Ramkumar Shankar says you should use Firefox, and they're right: you should. Not just because it's a great browser, and it is, but because doing so he [...]