Feed - Dan Q

[Repost] There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability 🔗

Elias's experience of the PHP CVE matches mine: it's real, it's serious... but it's not actually that easy to exploit "in the wild" except in conjunct [...]

[Article] Dem Bones! (Weird Web October) 🔗

The hand bone's connected to the cellphone. The cellphone's connected to the website. The website's connected to the puppet. Now shake 'dem skeleton b [...]

[Note] Inelegant 🔗

So elegant. So demure. Much doggle. [...]

[Checkin] Dan Q found GC8VFV3 Freeland to Hanborough - Bonus Cache #2 🔗

A very quick final find on our walk with Menssana Martial Arts. Thanks for maintaining this series! [...]

[Checkin] Dan Q found GCAXYB9 Freeland to Hanborough #04 - Revived 🔗

Found in the third candidate place I looked, as the other walkers from my youngest kid's taekwondo school escaped into the woods ahead. Had to jog to [...]

[Checkin] Dan Q found GCAF07M Freeland to Hanborough #06 - Revived 🔗

A second diversion from the taekwondo group to find a cache just off the beaten track, this gloriously clear morning! [...]

[Checkin] Dan Q found GCAXZQ5 Freeland to Hanborough - Bonus Cache #5 🔗

A quick find while out with the younger kid on a walk with his taekwondo school. TFTC! [...]

[Reply] Re: My Hobby Is Learning 🔗

Like me, Kev Quirk's hobby is learning... to the point at which he, like me, picks up hobbies like they're fistfuls of popcorn. I've got some thoughts [...]

[Repost] Alternate timeline in which all Greek and Latin roots are swapped 🔗

Remoteoscope and equigamic are both wonderful words and I envy our alternate-universe buddies. Concavenator has some more. [...]

[Article] /pfp - a /slashpage for profile picture history 🔗

/pfp is a /slashpage standard intended to showcase a timeline of 'profile pictures' you've used to represent yourself online over the years. I've adde [...]

[Note] Stripping 'sign up now' ads from BBC News feeds 🔗

I continue to fight to make BBC News' RSS feeds not-suck, despite ongoing efforts to dilute their value by the BBC themselves. Last month they started [...]

[Note] Origami Dissected 🔗

A peep behind the curtain: here's an animation illustrating how I had to learn to dissect/think about origami in order to make origami.danq.dev for my [...]

[Article] Origami (Weird Web October) 🔗

A (well-folded) love letter to the Weird World Wide Web: my entry for day 14 of Weird Web October is "Origami". Go play with virtual paper! [...]

[Article] Webpage Copy-Protection is Impossible (and that's great!) 🔗

A friend of mine was inconvenienced by an over-eager bit of Web copy-protection JavaScript this week, and it reminded me that more-than-ever, these sc [...]

[Note] Oh, Aviva 🔗

Last time I made a dental insurance claim, Aviva insisted on sending me a cheque. So I asked them via live chat if I could claim via bank transfer. Ye [...]

[Article] What Argentine Tango is like... 🔗

A series of metaphors about what tango feels like, to me. Like improvising music. Like spinning tops. Like an flock of birds. Or something like that. [...]

[Note] Hanley Swan 🔗

Ruth and I stopped at Hanley Swan for a picnic lunch on our way home from our weekend of Argentine Tango classes. Within seconds our lunch had attract [...]

[Checkin] Dan Q found GCB19MJ St Ann's Well 🔗

This checkin to GCB19MJ St Ann's Well reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. There's some kind of foot race going on today [...]

[Note] Squirrel Friend 🔗

On the window sill of the bar at the hotel where Ruth and I are learning to tango... this morning I made a squirrel friend! At least now I'll have suc [...]

[Note] 🔗

The bed in my hotel room tonight is made up for not one, not two, but three occupants. Did they... see me and instantly clock me as polyamorous? [...]

[Repost] Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says 🔗

The public will be able to watch the execution of a former US Army major by firing squad, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has said. I feel physicall [...]

[Article] Halifax Leaked My Financial Information... (Again) 🔗

For the second time in two years, Halifax wrote to me about my credit card... but sent the letter to entirely the wrong person, leaking my personal fi [...]

[Article] Move the mouse across the screen (Weird Web October) 🔗

This year, I'm (slightly) participating in Weird Web October. For today's theme, 'skeuomorphism', I implemented a mouse curser... (not a typo) [...]

[Note] That time I got locked-in at the V&A 🔗

I just realised that I never shared this anecdote online before - One time, I got locked-in at the V&A Museum after closing-time. I'd been there for a [...]

[Note] Ted Lasso S04E10 🔗

Fuck you Ted Lasso season 4 finale, I hadn't planned on crying today. 😭 [...]

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