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Child Photographers
Taking photos of children isn't difficult. Unless it's the early 1980s and that child is Dan.
Say... "Cheese?"
Dan films himself trying five vegan cheese substitutes for your... let's say "enjoyment".
Nginx Caching for Passenger Applications
Adding Nginx microcaching to a Passenger application requires a little thought. Let's save you from thinking about it.
Printing Maps from Dungeondraft
Tips on using Dungeondraft to make RPG maps you can print for tabletop use.
DNDle (Wordle, but with D&D monster stats)
Dan releases DNDle, a Wordle clone where you assign characteristics to try to guess the Dungeons and Dragons monster-of-the-day.
Automattic International
Off the back of a colleague's throwaway comment, Dan makes cartograms showing how his coworkers' countries proportionally dominate their world…
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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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- 920 checkins: geotagged content, typically resulting from Dan’s GNSS gaming, since January 2010
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Recent notes, reposts, checkins, videos, and reviews
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- Every time I log in to HackerOne my brain pronounces it to rhyme with “pepperoni”. That’s normal, right?
- Gutenberg versus Elementor - the beginners challenge
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- @robertalanwatts thanks for your Gandi Catch-All Email Forwarding Workaround (https://robsblog.robertwatts.com/2020/02/25/gandi-catchall-email-address-work-around/); very helpful!
- The comprehensive @id3 v2 system for #MP3 metadata doesn't seem to have an "explicit content" flag. I'm using an experimental XRAT frame (with a '1' or '0') for now, but I wonder if anyone's already "solved" this in a better way?
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