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Month: August 2022

  • Performed maintenance for GC8W7QW Forgotten Bridge

    This checkin to GC8W7QW Forgotten Bridge reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Routine maintenance visit. Looks like a "Reggie" comes by this way with his dogs and signs the logbook, sometimes! :-) Not such a forgotten footbridge after all?

    Read more (27 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC8W7QW
    • posted 30 August, 2022
  • Found GC5PPFT Ssssshhhh it's a .......

    This checkin to GC5PPFT Ssssshhhh it's a ....... reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I've been working in Witney one day every week or two lately, but somehow I've never managed to sync up my work times with the hours that this building is accessible! Or, when I do, I'm โ€ฆ

    Read more (106 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC5PPFT
    • posted 30 August, 2022
  • Found GC8V4TA Freeland to Hanborough 4

    This checkin to GC8V4TA Freeland to Hanborough 4 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. GPSr was all over the place, but the hint quickly sent me to the obvious hiding place. SL, TFTC.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (19 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC8V4TA
    • posted 29 August, 2022
  • Found GC8VQ92 Freeland to Hanborough 5

    This checkin to GC8VQ92 Freeland to Hanborough 5 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The geopup and I took a slightly inelegant route down to the valley bottom after she insisted we try a steep route atop a carpet of dry, dusty leaves. Made it down intact, though, and found โ€ฆ

    Read more (47 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC8VQ92
    • posted 29 August, 2022
  • Couldn't find GC8V4T3 Freeland to Hanborough 2

    This checkin to GC8V4T3 Freeland to Hanborough 2 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A pair of walkers who'd stopped at the GZ for a snack made searching difficult, plus the geodog isn't very good at stealth, so we had to give up on our search for this one. Maybe โ€ฆ

    Read more (59 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC8V4T3
    • posted 29 August, 2022
  • Found GC8V4RN Freeland to Hanborough 1

    This checkin to GC8V4RN Freeland to Hanborough 1 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF for the geohound and I while out for a walk. Not convinced we'll do the entire trail in a single run (the pooch only has little legs!) but we'll see how we get on. SL. โ€ฆ

    Read more (37 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC8V4RN
    • posted 29 August, 2022
  • Posted a note for GC90RH3 Tiny Log Book

    This checkin to GC90RH3 Tiny Log Book reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. This cache's container is likely to go on to make an appearance as GC9Z37H Friar's Farm - Woodland Walk.

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    • Checkin
    • to GC90RH3
    • posted 28 August, 2022
  • JSON output from DanQ.me's .well-known/links, showing 1,150 outbound links to en.wikipedia.org domains, for topics like "Bulls and Cows", "Shebang (Unix)", "Imposter syndrome", "Interrobang", and "Blakedown".

    .well-known/links in WordPress

    Dan implements a WordPress plugin to support Jim Nielsen's proposal for .well-known/links.

    Read more (230 words)

    • Article
    • 8 comments
    • posted 25 August, 2022
  • Image representing post: Beating Children at Mastermind [Video]

    Beating Children at Mastermind [Video]

    Video version of Dan's recent blog post about writing software to help him cheat at Mastermind.

    Read more (54 words)

    • Video
    • posted 24 August, 2022
  • A plastic Mastermind board in blue and yellow with ten guess spaces and eight pegs. The sixth guess is unscored but looks likely to be the valid solution.

    Beating Children at Mastermind

    Sick of losing Mastermind to his kids, Dan cheats by implementing a brute-force solver he can run on his phone.

    Read more - about 7 minutes (1531 words)

    • Article
    • 3 comments
    • posted 24 August, 2022
  • Image representing post: Dog; Person [Video]

    Dog; Person [Video]

    Video version of Dan's blog post about learning to love a dog despite being "not a dog person".

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    • Video
    • 1 comment
    • posted 17 August, 2022
  • Under bright blue skies and in a green field, Dan and Demmy stare into the camera. Dan's flushed from the heat and wearing a purple-and-rainbow "WordPress Pride" t-shirt; Demmy's tongue hangs low and she's clearly panting.

    Dog; Person

    He's not a "dog person", but Dan's learned to love one dog in particular.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (790 words)

    • Article
    • 2 comments
    • posted 17 August, 2022
  • Found GC8DQ39 FYI 292 - The Battle of Cropredy Bridge

    This checkin to GC8DQ39 FYI 292 - The Battle of Cropredy Bridge reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Surprisingly easy find! I got up earlier than most of the festival campers this morning to do the canalside series and then, figuring I had time, decided to tackle this multi too. โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC8DQ39
    • 1 comment
    • posted 14 August, 2022
  • Couldn't find GC8Z1EE Church Micro 13671...Cropredy โ›ช๏ธ

    This checkin to GC8Z1EE Church Micro 13671...Cropredy โ›ช๏ธ reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Think the bench must be inside the marquee pictured, based on the coordinates. I got my festival breakfast in the yesterday but didn't think to look for the bench - whoops! All sealed up this morning โ€ฆ

    Read more (56 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC8Z1EE
    • 2 comments
    • posted 14 August, 2022
  • Found GC9GK2V Mr Impossible

    This checkin to GC9GK2V Mr Impossible reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Finding the cache while avoiding strange looks from the boaters using the lock was relatively easy: I just sat down and did some stretches to give me an excuse to peep into the likely hiding places. Retrieving it โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC9GK2V
    • 2 comments
    • posted 14 August, 2022

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