Programming, digital privacy, indie web advocacy, and internet culture.
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 ever, beating the previous record holder of 2018. In honour of 2026, I feel like I should call this blogsmaxx…
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 coordinates on the way out into the woods but was prevented from searching by muggles. Had a hint on the way ba…
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 second place we looked. The geohound and I definitely approached this one from the wrong direction and the poor pu…
This checkin to GCB9ZHR Besselsleigh Wood - The Fallen Stump reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. (Excellent) container was undisguised and visible from the path, and with both latches unfastened! But I still had something to open…
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 twice without being able to perform a proper search owing to endless streams of muggles on one or the other sid…
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 the woods nearby the geohound and I figured we'd look for this cache, too. It might still be there, but if so…
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 one despite its disguise, but a bit of a challenge to retreive and return it! Coming back out to the footpath I…
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 stumbled about for a while before we found this, yet another container sized perfectly for its environment. TF…
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 this brilliant container, not least because it was a little exposed: almost completely without camouflage and wi…
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 out at us from its hiding place as the geopup and I approached. TFTC, and Happy Halloween!
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 walk around Appleton when I figured I'd have a go at this offset. As soon as we approached the starting waypoint…
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 (with a nice container) for the geohound and I while out on a walk around Appleton this morning. TFTC!
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 pinch of salt.
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 absolutely be able to be exempted from using those tools. At least, that's the legal verdict in this case!
Photographic fragments from the last six weeks of my camera roll, presented without context, inspired by Eric Foltin.
Some excellent recommendations from the W3C's TAG on installability of web applications to the "desktop", whether or not they have defined manifests/are PWAs. I really hope to see the major OS and browser manufacturers take these recommendations on board!
This checkin to GC6Q39P Cur.Bri.Lew 9 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Made two searches for this - one on the way out, one on the way back - but I'm confident that it simply isn't there. CO attention needed.
A quick find while walking the dog after running an errand nearby. Container in very poor condition, unlikely to survive a big winter storm. Re-hid as found. TTFC.
I buy too many domain names. So to help keep track of them... and to let the world see how bad my purchasing problem has gotten... I've come up with the "/domains" /slashpage. Perhaps you want one, too?
Matthias Pfefferle proposes an OPML-based .well-known/slashpages in a similar vein to my own .well-known/feeds. I love it, and I've implemented it right here on DanQ.me!
Jan van den Berg suggests that the corollary to the Mythical Man-Month in the age of AI might be: "Adding agents to a project with unclear requirements gets you the wrong answer faster."
The rest of the family and I spent a long weekend playing Jet Lag's "Hide & Seek" across Greater London. Here's how that went, and what we learned about playing the game (and, in particular, playing it with preteen children!).
The Firefox team absolutely knocking it out of the park by rallying the faces of the memes you've missed and using them as a reminder that the Web you've missed is still out there. And your choice of web browser is part of your choice to see that.
Let this be your reminder to check on how your computer systems truncate long strings for public display.
I'm in London for a long weekend of Jet Lag Hide & Seek, staying at a hotel a little to the North of here. After having to DNF Aldgate East Sidetracked, which is pretty much below my bedroom window but seems to have gone walkabout, I felt like I needed a geoca…
I've been in London playing Hide & Seek (by Jet Lag rules) and my hotel overlooks this fountain. I came down to take a look - the "running hooves" splash effect is pretty great! Sadly, the cache was nowhere to be found, though. I found the right dog and prodde…
QEF in the second hiding place I tried, while out playing Jet Lag The Game with the family (my hiding zone is the 500m around Angel Station and I wanted to find a generic looking church that I can send a picture of if the seekers' team asks for one!). TFTC!
Sometimes it's just time to go up the wooden hill... during Weird Web October! Let's roll some shapes...
Well, it looks like I've committed to playing this on the wettest imaginable weekend. Wish me luck!
In another Weird Web October contribution, I'd like to introduce you to Incognito Mode for Wikipedia. Yes, it's stupid.