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Year: 2022

  • Dan, wearing a red-and-black jacket and a white cycle helmet, stands in front of a red telephone box on a village street.

    Performed maintenance for GC9GKJA A Fine Pair # 1625 ~ Eynsham

    This checkin to GC9GKJA A Fine Pair # 1625 ~ Eynsham reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Dropped by while cycling in the vicinity to replace the log book in the cache container. Hopefully this one will survive a little longer!

    Read more (24 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC9GKJA
    • posted 14 December, 2022
  • Illustration showing a web application using MailChimp to send an email newsletter to OpenTrashMail, to which FreshRSS is subscribed.

    Email newsletters via RSS

    No, I won't subscribe to your newsletter... except by using my RSS reader (and a clever feature of OpenTrashMail)!

    Read more - about 3 minutes (572 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 14 December, 2022
  • Composite screenshot showing Windows Media Player, the (old) iTunes companion widget, KMPlayer, and other media players. All of them have unusually-shaped windows, often with organic corners.

    Why Did Media Players Look Like That?

    As MP3s took off, early player software looked... weird and ugly. To this day, I can't understand why.

    Read more (458 words)

    • Article
    • 10 comments
    • posted 7 December, 2022
  • Posted a note for GC9GKJA A Fine Pair # 1625 ~ Eynsham

    This checkin to GC9GKJA A Fine Pair # 1625 ~ Eynsham reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Visited today after the recent log suggesting the container had been removed and the log dumped. Couldn't find the log hidden anywhere, but the cache container is intact and in place (just missing โ€ฆ

    Read more (58 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC9GKJA
    • posted 7 December, 2022
  • Transferring to a new phone network, 2022 edition

    Stuart shared his experience of changing mobile network. I have only one tip to add...

    Read more (155 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 6 December, 2022
  • Dan, in the dark and wearing a cycle helmet, holds up a GPS receiver.

    Geohashing expedition 2022-12-05 51 -1

    A cycle in the dark leads to a hashpoint on a bridleway and the opportunity to improve OpenStreetMap.

    Read more (294 words)

    • Checkin
    • to 2022-12-05 51 -1
    • 2 comments
    • posted 5 December, 2022
  • Reply to The ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions

    In reply to Terence Eden, Dan says that he considers it's morally-acceptable for a personal website to take a reactive approach to the moderation of comments syndicated via WebMentions, and explains why.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (609 words)

    • Reply
    • posted 3 December, 2022
  • A view through a barbed-wire fence, flanked by trees, into a grassy field with three light brown bullocks. A map "pin" is superimposed indicating a point around 25 metres into the field.

    Geohashing expedition 2022-12-02 51 -1

    This hashpoint looked like it'd be a walk in the park, but it nearly ended up as a battle with bullocks.

    Read more (293 words)

    • Checkin
    • to 2022-12-02 51 -1
    • 2 comments
    • posted 2 December, 2022
  • Escalators down onto railway station platforms.

    Announcers and Automation

    A friend of mine used to do railway station announcements and was so good that he could do it from memory. That job now belongs to a computer. And that's fine.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (493 words)

    • Article
    • with an accompanying podcast
    • 2 comments
    • posted 1 December, 2022
  • Things The Other Child Did Wrong That Lead To The Fight that I've heard so far today:


    Clapped too loudly
    Sang too loudly
    Sang too quietly
    Sang the wrong words
    Put their feet too close to the dog
    Ate the last grape
    Ate the wrong grape (!?) โ€ฆ

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    • Note
    • 14 comments
    • posted 28 November, 2022
  • Posted a note for GC9GTV3 Drive Slowly; Fox Crossing

    This checkin to GC9GTV3 Drive Slowly; Fox Crossing reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Following feedback, I've tweaked the hint.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (6 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC9GTV3
    • posted 24 November, 2022
  • Far Side comic #12326, from 23 November 2022, shown in FreshRSS. The comic shows two bulls dressed in trenchcoats and hats browsing a china shop; one staff member says to the other "I got a bad feeling about this, Harriet."

    The Far Side in FreshRSS

    The proxy I implemented to bypass The Far Side's lack of an RSS feed is now unnecessary, because FreshRSS is better than ever.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (907 words)

    • Article
    • 16 comments
    • posted 23 November, 2022
  • 428: Precondition Failed ("You're still sleeping with your ex-!?")

    Breakups as HTTP Response Codes

    408: Request Timeout = "You keep saying you'll propose, but you never do", and 18 other HTTP response codes expressed as relationship breakdowns.

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    • Article
    • 6 comments
    • posted 22 November, 2022
  • Screenshot showing Sisyphus carrying a rock up a long numbered gameboard; he's on square 993 out of 1000, but (according to the rules printed below the board) he needs to land on 1000 exactly and never roll a double-1 or else he returns to the start.

    Sisyphus: The Board Game (Digital Edition)

    I implemented a terrible digital version of a truly stupid board game idea. My excuse is illness, I guess?

    Read more (174 words)

    • Article
    • 39 comments
    • posted 21 November, 2022
  • When Twitter Loses, WordPress Wins

    Alex Standiford observes that Automattic stand to win from Twitter's losses; I'd like to expand on that a tiny bit.

    Read more (177 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 21 November, 2022

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