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Endpoint Encabulator
Dan shares his latest digital project, the Endpoint Encabulator, with an explanatory video.
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<blink> and <marquee>
Dan explores the history of two (much-maligned) HTML tags of the yesterweb. With blinking marquees!
Accidental Geohashing
Dan mines his own geoposition data of the last decade to ask: did I ever accidentally visit a geohashpoint? Turns…
Automattic Retrospective (days 207 to 334)
The fourth in Dan's series of blog posts about his experience of working at Automattic comes as he approaches the…
Displaying ProtonMail Encryption Status in Thunderbird
Dan releases his first Thunderbird plugin, for improving integration with ProtonMail Bridge.
Tiled Slackmoji
Dan suggests a creative/stupid way to abuse Slack custom emoji.
AI as an Author
Dan shares some of his favourite stories from the world of natural language artificial intelligence.
About
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
- Sometimes, I miss Troma Night. Hanging out with my friends and watching awful/awesome films over pizza and beer. If only there were a way to do it during lockdown? Oh wait, there is: danq.me/homa-night/homa-night-2
- The Longest Limebike ride in history
- Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back
- Dan replies to Jeremy's note about blood donation to observe that there's an underdeveloped IndieWeb post type that might one…
- Watched the pilot of Webbed Briefs by @heydonworks (of Every Layout fame). It’s a sarcastic independent vlog about web technologies, so I immediately fell in love and subscribed to the feed… Just kidding. It doesn’t have a feed! (Yet?)
- Why using Google VPN is a terrible idea
- Thames Path 2
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- COVID-19 and Acedia
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- The most important feature of Sublime Text
- Winamp Skin Museum
- When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number
- The Unexpected Solace in Learning to Play Piano
- Dune (2020)
- CSS Logical Properties
- Geohashing expedition 2020-09-09 51 -1
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- Run Club Goes for a Swim
- Oxford's Long-Lost Zoo
- To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab
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