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[Reply] Re: Decimal Clock 🔗

Niki proposed a decimalised analogue clock, with ten subdivisions broken into partial hours. I much prefer a traditional clock, and propose an alterna [...]

[Note] Incoming Postcard... from Croatia 🔗

The PO Box service that I use to receive postcards from the Internet sends me partial scans of incoming mail before it gets forwarded on to me. It's a [...]

[Article] "Things" is a thing that showcases my things. 🔗

This week I relaunched my static site, Dan Q's Things, that catalogues my various Web projects. I'm pretty pleased with the new version! Let me tell y [...]

[Video] "Things" is a thing that showcases my things. [Video] 🔗

A video tour of my favourite five features of the Dan Q's Things website I just re-launched, because I'm moderately proud of it. [...]

[Article] Geohashing.site's Better Banhammer 🔗

Off the back of yesterday's conversations about PHP-powered honeypots to IP-ban badly-behaved bots, I'd like to share the configuration I've been usin [...]

[Reply] Re: Blunt Banhammer Blocks Basic Bots Ballistically 🔗

Terence Eden's shared the honeypot he came up with to make a powerful honeypot-powered block against badly-behaved bots. I'm concerned, though: I've s [...]

[Note] F-Day plus 269 🔗

JTA checked on our house this morning, which has been under repair since it flooded 269 days ago. There he discovered that, after countless delays and [...]

[Article] The Day my Phone Number contained my TOTP 🔗

Once, I saw a six-digit sequential sequence of my phone number appear in an 'authenticator app' TOTP code. What are the odds? Incredibly rare. And yet [...]

[Article] Dynamic Sorting in Pure CSS 🔗

Did you know that you can make a list of items "sortable" client-side with just one selector and one property of CSS per sort-criteria, and have a ful [...]

[Article] F-Day plus 266 🔗

It's been 266 days since we were flooded out of our home, and progress on repairs still seems to be glacial. It's still unclear if we'll be back by Ch [...]

[Note] Old Guard Lunch 🔗

Delightful location for lunch with the "Old Guard of Cake & Magic", my former team from the Bodleian Libraries, now what... two employers ago!? Still [...]

[Note] Your Losing 🔗

Briefly stuck behind this BMW in traffic, and had to wonder... who pays for a custom tagline/slogan on their number plate and doesn't run it through a [...]

[Note] Blogsmaxxing 🔗

I glanced at my blogging stats and noticed that, with 559 posts so far this year (including this one), this has been my most-prolific year of blogging [...]

[Checkin] Dan Q did not find GCB9ZGB Church Micro 2416...Appleton - St Laurence 🔗

This checkin to GCB9ZGB Church Micro 2416...Appleton - St Laurence reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Worked out the c [...]

[Checkin] Dan Q found GCB9ZHJ Besselsleigh Wood - The Old Coppiced Tree 🔗

This checkin to GCB9ZHJ Besselsleigh Wood - The Old Coppiced Tree reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found in the seco [...]

[Checkin] Dan Q found GCB9ZHR Besselsleigh Wood - The Fallen Stump 🔗

This checkin to GCB9ZHR Besselsleigh Wood - The Fallen Stump reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. (Excellent) container [...]

[Checkin] Dan Q wrote note for GCB9ZJK Besselsleigh Wood - A Little Birdie Told Me 🔗

This checkin to GCB9ZJK Besselsleigh Wood - A Little Birdie Told Me reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Passed the GZ t [...]

[Checkin] Dan Q did not find GC27K1V Church Micro 1146...Bessels Leigh 🔗

This checkin to GC27K1V Church Micro 1146...Bessels Leigh reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. While doing the series in [...]

[Checkin] Dan Q found GCB9ZJG Besselsleigh Wood - The Conifer 🔗

This checkin to GCB9ZJG Besselsleigh Wood - The Conifer reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Easy enough to sight this o [...]

[Checkin] Dan Q found GCB9ZJB Besselsleigh Wood - Across The Ditch 🔗

This checkin to GCB9ZJB Besselsleigh Wood - Across The Ditch reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Had a bad GPS fix and [...]

[Checkin] Dan Q found GCB9ZJ0 Besselsleigh Wood - The Lightning Strike 🔗

This checkin to GCB9ZJ0 Besselsleigh Wood - The Lightning Strike reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. An easy find of th [...]

[Checkin] Dan Q found GCB9ZJ6 Besselsleigh Wood - The Holey Tree 🔗

This checkin to GCB9ZJ6 Besselsleigh Wood - The Holey Tree reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF, the cache winking o [...]

[Checkin] Dan Q found GCB9ZH3 Little Bridges # 3220 - Besselsleigh Wood 🔗

This checkin to GCB9ZH3 Little Bridges # 3220 - Besselsleigh Wood reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Out for a dog wal [...]

[Checkin] Dan Q found GCB9ZGP Besselsleigh Wood - The Little Oak 🔗

This checkin to GCB9ZGP Besselsleigh Wood - The Little Oak reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A relatively easy find ( [...]

[Note] Is Anthropic going to prove me wrong? 🔗

Anthropic's latest numbers seem to suggest that they're the first GenAI company to actually make money! But we ought to take that with an enormous pin [...]

[Repost] Man Who Identifies as a ‘Humanist’ Gets Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work 🔗

If your religious beliefs are incompatible with your use of a particular tool that isn't essential for a particular kind of work, then you should abso [...]

[Article] Fragments 🔗

Photographic fragments from the last six weeks of my camera roll, presented without context, inspired by Eric Foltin. [...]

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