I'm Dan Q. I've spent the last 25+ years writing things on the Internet.
I work at Automattic and volunteer with Three Rings. I live with my partner, her husband, and our two children. When I'm not at my desk, I can often be found doing GNSS sports, cycling, or travelling.
I believe in open source, an open Web, and open minds. Open relationships are cool, too.
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CapsulePress - Gemini/Spartan/Gopher to WordPress bridge
My WordPress blog posts are accessible via Gemini, Spartan, and Gopher. And now I've open-sourced the code that makes it possible. I give you: CapsulePress! Read more →
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Stopping WordPress Emoji 'Images' in Feeds
By default, WordPress's RSS feeds replace emoji with externally-hosted images of emoji. Let's see if we can turn that off. Read more →
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Debian + DKIM for Dummies
I migrated my email subscription list from Gandi's SMTP server to my own... for which I first needed to teach myself OpenDKIM. Here's what I learned. Read more →
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Watch Together with WhatsApp on the side
For a Virtual Fringe Festival party, I hooked up OBS Studio and Owncast with WhatsApp Web on the side. Here's how I did it. Read more →
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Are Geocache Logs Getting Shorter?
Are geocaching log entries getting shorter? Let's extract a sample of 134,000 of them and make Excel cry. With graphs! Read more →
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RSS Zero isn't the path to RSS Joy
There’s nothing special about reaching Inbox Zero in your feed reader. It’s not noble nor enlightened to get to the bottom of your “unread” list. Your 👏 feed 👏 reader 👏 is 👏 not 👏 an 👏 email 👏 client. 👏 Read more →
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Out of the Trees
In 1976, Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams made a single episode of a sketch comedy show which was broadcast only once before the master tapes were destroyed. It took significant work to recover, but that's small potatoes compared to the ephemeral media we create today. Read more →
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Found GC2HDCZ Tom Burts Cache 4
Found while walking into High Wycombe to work after dropping my canine caching-companion (pictured) off at the nearby veterinary hospital for an operation. Didn’t need her help with this easy find, luckily! Shame about all the fly tipping littering this otherwise pleasant path. Greetings from Oxfordshire!× Read more →
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Groundhog Day
After a break of nine and a half years, webcomic Octopuns is back! Read more →
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Crowdsourced Burger Photography
If I were crowned Burger King, I'd try to distract people from the marketing lawsuit farce by crowdsourcing my food photos... Read more →
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Woodward Draw
Over the course of three days, I completed excellent 4-letter-word-puzzle-game Woodward Draw, and I think you should give it a go too. Read more →
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Found GC54E29 WAG 16 - Elvendon Valley
The poor little geopup’s only got tiny legs, and the 8km we’ve walked so-far has got her pretty tired-out, so this’ll be the last cache of the series before we go and find ourselves some lunch and go home. It’s been a very enjoyable series so far, and I fully intend to return to complete […] Read more →
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Found GC54E1W WAG 15 - Action!
Sometimes the geo-sense “just works”. This was one of those moments. I was approaching the area and checking the distance. Then I walked straight to a likely location. Then I picked up the cache. Done and done. Read more →
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Found GC72TZ5 WAG 14 - Wander through Wroxhills
Turning South and crossing our own path, the sun came out at last and we were bathed in glorious warm light. Between that, and the familiarity of the trail we passed, the geopup and I completely forgot for a moment that we were out to look for this next cache and overshot it: we had […] Read more →
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Found GC54DR7 WAG 9 - Sausages & Bacon!
Worra lorra porkers! The geopup is a huge fan of sausages but I don’t think she understood that the cornucopia she was looking at across the field was the same thing, just a few years off being ripe. Great cache container too. TFTC, and let’s chuck an FP in because this series as a whole […] Read more →
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Found GC54DTF WAG 10 - Track-able
The geopup and I tried a couple of likely hiding places before we found this one. A nice-sized container and well-suited to its hiding place, here, TFTC! Read more →
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Couldn't find OK00F7 Pig City Vista
Came by this location while doing the nearby WAG series. Was delighted to see that an OpenCache was on the route too so the geopup and I dedicated the time to a decent search. We think we found what was once the hiding place, but the cache itself was sadly nowhere to be seen. Read more →
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Couldn't find GC54DW0 WAG 11 - Panorama
Between nearby GC7QC7R, which acts as a spur to this series, and OK00F7, which sits on (and predates) this series, I was feeling confident of a find here… but after an extended search the geopup and I had to admit defeat. To be honest, she was willing to give up and press on immediately, having […] Read more →
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