Recent articles
Email Tracking and Paperless Banking
Dan's paperless baking gets taken away when he doesn't consent to them tracking when and where he reads their emails.
Hot Shots, Part Dream
Dan shares a dream in which he starts a meme about a non-existent 80s kids TV show inspired by a…
Automattic Growth
After only two years at Automattic, Dan's now been there longer than most. Wait, what?
Minification vs the GPL
Does distributing only minified code violate the GPL? What about if the "minification" is minimal and hand-done as part of…
From Synergy to Barrier
Disenchanted by a lack of platform support, Dan switches from Synergy to its fork, open-source competitor Barrier.
Making an RSS feed of YOURLS shortlinks
After switching his personal shortlinks from S.2 to YOURLS, Dan dusts off his XSLT experience to make himself an RSS…
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Dan Q’s been blogging since the 1990s, mostly about his life, technology, programming, relationships, hacking, and games.
He lives in Oxford, UK with his partner and her husband in a polyamorous V-shaped thingy, and their two children. Until he finds something that rhymes better, he describes himself as a magician Automattician on a geoposition-mission.
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Recent notes, reposts, checkins, videos, and reviews
- "DOONT" — A Bad Lip Reading of Dune
- How did it take me years of working-from-home before I thought to install one of these in my desk? Brilliant.
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(owner maintenance) - Bisexuality Mythbusters
- Tesco Abingdon's phone menu system is diabolical, Dan discovers.
- Xday Dinner on a Yday???
- Today is "superhero day" for nursery/reception, so I continued my effort to straddle the line between being a fun #parent and an embarassing parent line by dropping the kids off like this...
- Dan overengineers a geocache... so it looks like a sign!
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(found it) - When do I #blog? A breakdown of my top four #indieweb content types - articles, reposts, checkins and notes - by month.
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