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Breakfast today will make use of leftovers to produce a bean chilli pizza. This'll work, right? #note #pizza #food #vegetarianism #breakfast Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/03/02/bean-chilli-breakfast-pizza/

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Security experts warned Friday about a widespread zero day vulnerability, tentatively dubbed "CVE-2025-TRUMP," that threatens to let Russia backdoor....well, everything.

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What's the equivalent phrase to "hair of the dog", but for caffeine? I've always been pretty sensitive to it, and while I'm less-so now, it was still definitely a mistake to eat several portions of tiramisu right before bedtime. So now I'm going to need more caffeine, this morning, to […]

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Remember that excellent (11-year-old!) comedy sketch "The Expert"? I'm probably not the first to think of this, but I decided to see how an #LLM would handle the (kinda-)impossible challenge. The answer is: pretty much how you'd expect. Because they're eager to provide an answer, even where an […]

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I read #BeckyChambers' A Psalm for the Wild-Built while I was ill, earlier this week, and it was the perfect comfort-read. #Utopian without being boring; rich and deep without being slow; #sciFi while still being relatable. #Queer as you like. Win, win, win. That's my teeny-tiny #review, but […]

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After most of four days spent primarily in bed with what's probably a norovirus infection (or something like it), this afternoon I got up and went outside. 🎉 It felt like a huge achievement, even if I ran back in to the warmth the very second that the dog I was […] [Original post on danq.me]

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Using WordPress internally at Automattic as a productivity tool is great... until you have to call in sick three days in a row and Jetpack treats your "streak" as an "achievement"! 😅 #note #wordpress #automattic #work #illness #health Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/02/26/3-day-streak/

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Third day of being ill with what's probably a winter vomiting bug, with one child home sick from school... and just having had to collect the other kid who started throwing up on his school trip... I finally got back to my bed and picked up the next book on my pile […] [Original post on danq.me]

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[Illness, creepy dreams] Don't remember the last time I felt so run-down. I've been unwell since Sunday with an illness I can only assume I caught from the 11-year-old, who's been unable to keep food down for several days. In my case, though, I've mostly been full of muscular aches and cramps […]

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Yesterday, owing to some plot, the dog didn't get as much outside/walk/play time as she'd like. Today, she let me know how she felt about that by shredding my slippers. 🙄 #note #dog #dogs #shoes #revenge Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/02/21/goodbye-slippers/

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I was experimenting with VP8/VP9 WebM video transparency and I made a stupid thing: a URL that, if you go to it, means you'll he followed around my blog by a video of me just hanging out in the corner of the page - https://danq.me/?fool_id=06 I've added it to my […] [Original post on danq.me]

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Trump's playbook for peace: 1) Bully and smear the victim of a war of aggression into accepting the aggressor's terms 2) If that doesn't work, walk away, claim that "they don't want peace anyway", and let the aggressor do as they will. The MAGA crowd, as always, will lap it up. As will […]

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In an unusual date night activity for @fleeblewidget and I, this week we tried making pies together... while @fleeblewidget was blindfolded and I was forbidden from giving her verbal instructions. It was really challenging, and pretty stressful... and lots of fun […] [Original post on danq.me]

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A lunchtime dog walk was made especially delightful by the growing warmth of the approaching British springtime. It's really bright and pretty out, this afternoon! #note #spring #weather #uk #dogs #walking #oxford Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/02/18/spring-is-coming/

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The other week I switched my weblog, which has been running on #WordPress since 2004, to @classicpress. So far, it's been great (with only a few minor challenges). #ClassicPress provides (almost) all the features I love and none of the ones I don't need. 🔗 Deep-dive and learnings […]

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Back in 2019, @mia said: > Large companies find HTML & CSS frustrating “at scale” because the web is a fundamentally anti-capitalist mashup art experiment, designed to give consumers all the power. This is exactly what I needed to read today. Thanks, Mia. Writing HTML is punk rock. A […]

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The sustain pedal broke on our upright piano. Normally the insides of the piano are a terrifying place that only our tuner gets to look at. A scary realm whose mysteries I cannot begin to comprehend. But I was feeling very brave, so I popped it open, found this […] [Original post on danq.me]

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As a child, I used to enjoy a 1983 application that randomly-generated #insults. So today I re-implemented it in #Perchance. 🔗 Wanna see? https://danq.me/insults

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[Food] I have A Plan for today. Step #2 involves a deep-dive into Algolia search indexing, ranking, and priority, to understand how one might optimise for a diverse and complex dataset. So obviously step #1 involves a big ol' coffee and a sugary breakfast. Here we […] [Original post on danq.me]

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"I'm only asking for basic respect." - Dr. Beth Upton, in the face of a hostile courtroom, media, and world. Her fucking bravery is amazing. 💖 #note #news #trans #gender #identity #humanRights Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/02/11/beth-upton/

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After "fixing" BBC News' RSS feeds I noticed that I was seeing less news (and, somehow, stressing less over everything happening in the USA). Turns out that in switching myself to my new system I'd subscribed to the UK edition, whereas previously I'd been on the Full edition. I've corrected it […]

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Inspired by @inann's "The Continuum", I turned the featured images of the posts of my #WordPress/#ClassicPress #blog into a illustration, too! 🔗 Here's how/more: https://danq.me/continuum

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Inspired by @gadgetero's suggestion, I've launched https://BBC-Feeds.DanQ.dev, a site hosting "improved" versions of BBC News' RSS feeds. (Here: "improved" means no iPlayer links, no Sounds links, no nagging you to install theiri app, and optionally no sports news.)

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Inspired by @gadgetero's suggestion, I've launched https://BBC-Feeds.DanQ.dev, a site hosting "improved" versions of BBC News' RSS feeds. (Here: "improved" means no iPlayer links, no Sounds links, no nagging you to install theiri app, and optionally no sports news.)

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Don't Bishops normally get to retain their regular name? This BBC News headline makes it sound like we're gonna end up with Bishop McBishopface! #note #religion #funny #news Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/02/07/bishop-mcbishopface/

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@sethadam1 👋 Hi! Are you the Adam Scheinberg behind Fip (flipsource.org), back in the day? I used it for a few years back in the early naughties and occasionally talk about it when the topic of my blog's 26+-year-history comes up, and figured I ought to credit you properly when I come to that […]

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Possible future presentation concept: using a cafe/dining metaphor to help explain the proximity principle in user interface design (possibly with a "live waitstaffing" demo?). Great idea? Or stupid idea? #note #ui #userInterface #technology #lectures #webDesign […] [Original post on danq.me]

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On Wednesday, Vodafone announced that they'd made the first ever satellite video call from a stock mobile phone in an area with no terrestrial signal. They used a mountain in Wales for their experiment. It reminded me of an experiment of my own, way back in around 1999, which I probably should […]

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[Political satire, swear words, convicted felon Donald Trump] I've worked out what convicted felon Donald Trump's endgame strategy is! And I can explain it... through the medium of a comic in the art style of Sid Meier's Civilization! 🔗 Via […] [Original post on danq.me]

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Seen on a train.

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Back at work after a three-month break, and it turns out the first thing that I'd missed is my team's quirky morning ritual. #note #sabbatical #automattic #work #slack Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/01/29/25595/

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Yeah, I'm pretty good with myself right now, not gonna lie. #ImposterSyndrome #politics #commentary

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After a night that alternated between raining and freezing winds here, at the edge of Storm Éowyn, this morning my skylight has ice patterns on it that look beautiful and almost organic. #note #ice #weather #storm #uk #photo Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/01/25/25585/

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My 8-year-old asked me "In Spanish, I need to use an upside-down interrobang at the start of the sentence‽" (I assume the answer is yes!) A little while later, I thought to check whether Unicode defines a codepoint for an inverted interrobang. Yup: ‽ = U+203D, ⸘ = U+2E18. Nice. (And yet we […]

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Last year, a colleague introduced me to lazygit, a TUI git client with a wealth of value-added features. Somehow, though, my favourite feature is the animation you see if you nuke the working tree. 😘 Excellent. #note #git #sourceControl #technology #programming […] [Original post on danq.me]

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A picture is worth a thousand words. This is why it's really important to write good alt text. #a11y #AltTxt

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The final weekend of my sabbatical was spent, like the first one, at a Three Rings event. As a side activity to the volunteer work, everybody was asked to put their name on a paper plate and leave it on a particular table, allowing others to semi-anonymously add […] [Original post on danq.me]

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[Gentle religious humour] When you love Jesus but you're sick of Him blocking your driveway. #note #funny #trinidadAndTobago #religion #christianity #joke #cars Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/01/17/25552/

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Goodbye, Trinidad and Tobago. 🇹🇹 You were wonderful. I hope to visit you again. ❤️ #note #travel #trinidadAndTobago Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/01/18/25554/

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[Gentle religious humour] When you love Jesus but you're sick of Him blocking your driveway. #note #funny #trinidadAndTobago #religion #christianity #joke #cars Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/01/17/25552/

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Yesterday, Ruth and I made the first ever attempt at a geohashing expedition in Trinidad & Tobago, successfully finding a hashpoint in Chase Village in the West of Trinidad! 🔗 https://danq.link/gh-trinidad #note #geohashing #travel #trinidadAndTobago Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/01/16/25533/

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