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Year: 2023

  • Screenshot from FoundryVTT, showing a party of three adventurers crossing a rickety bridge through a blood-red swamp, facing off against a handful of fiends coming the other way. A popup item card for a "Dragon Slayer Longsword" is visible, along with two 20-sided dice.

    Easy FoundryVTT Cloud Hosting

    People keep asking for a quick-and-easy guide to setting up a cloud hosted FoundryVTT server. So I wrote one.

    Read more - about 7 minutes (1661 words)

    • Article
    • posted 29 September, 2023
  • Photograph showing Dan's wristwatch, worn, side-on; its strap is in the style of the Bisexual Pride flag - three solid horizontal bars: two fifths pink, one fifth purple, and two fifths blue.

    Watch with Pride

    With thanks to Shawn Rast of Pride Bands, my watch/fitness tracker proudly sports some new colours.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (17 words)

    • Note
    • 1 comment
    • posted 26 September, 2023
  • Framegrab from first and only episode of 1974 TV sketch comedy show Out of the Trees, showing two uniformed policemen, one of them holding a crimson peony.

    Out of the Trees

    In 1976, Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams made a single episode of a sketch comedy show which was broadcast only once before the master tapes were destroyed. It took significant work to recover, but that's small potatoes compared to the ephemeral media we create today.

    Read more (207 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 22 September, 2023
  • A champagne-coloured French Bulldog snuggles up against a human's leg, wearing blue jeans.

    Found GC2HDCZ Tom Burts Cache 4

    This checkin to GC2HDCZ Tom Burts Cache 4 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found while walking into High Wycombe to work after dropping my canine caching-companion (pictured) off at the nearby veterinary hospital for an operation. Didn't need her help with this easy find, luckily! Shame about all the โ€ฆ

    Read more (46 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC2HDCZ
    • posted 13 September, 2023
  • CapsulePress logo (WordPress-style circle containing a space rocket emblazoned with the astrological sign for Gemini) on a purple background.

    CapsulePress - Gemini / Spartan / Gopher to WordPress bridge

    My WordPress blog posts are accessible via Gemini, Spartan, and Gopher. And now I've open-sourced the code that makes it possible. I give you: CapsulePress!

    Read more (457 words)

    • Article
    • posted 10 September, 2023
  • Screenshot from a web-based RSS reader application, showing recent repost "Groundhog Day". The final line contains a link with the text "I โค๏ธ FreshRSS", but the red heart emoji seems to be enormous compared to the next adjacent to it.

    Stopping WordPress Emoji 'Images' in Feeds

    By default, WordPress's RSS feeds replace emoji with externally-hosted images of emoji. Let's see if we can turn that off.

    Read more (441 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 4 September, 2023
  • Partial comic frame showing a groundhog popping its head out of a hole and shouting "RUN!".

    Groundhog Day

    After a break of nine and a half years, webcomic Octopuns is back!

    Read more (118 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • 3 comments
    • posted 4 September, 2023
  • Marketing photograph showing Burger King's "Whopper" burger.

    Crowdsourced Burger Photography

    If I were crowned Burger King, I'd try to distract people from the marketing lawsuit farce by crowdsourcing my food photos...

    Read more (309 words)

    • Note
    • posted 2 September, 2023
  • Screenshot from GMail showing "DKIM: 'PASS' with domain danq.link".

    Debian + DKIM for Dummies

    I migrated my email subscription list from Gandi's SMTP server to my own... for which I first needed to teach myself OpenDKIM. Here's what I learned.

    Read more - about 7 minutes (1444 words)

    • Article
    • posted 2 September, 2023
  • Screenshot showing a completed game of Woodward Draw; the final word was "goat".

    Woodward Draw

    Over the course of three days, I completed excellent 4-letter-word-puzzle-game Woodward Draw, and I think you should give it a go too.

    Read more (198 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 31 August, 2023
  • Close-up photograph showing a butterfly atop a purple flower in a grassy meadow.

    Found GC54E29 WAG 16 - Elvendon Valley

    This checkin to GC54E29 WAG 16 - Elvendon Valley reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The poor little geopup's only got tiny legs, and the 8km we've walked so-far has got her pretty tired-out, so this'll be the last cache of the series before we go and find ourselves some โ€ฆ

    Read more (176 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC54E29
    • posted 28 August, 2023
  • Found GC54E1W WAG 15 - Action!

    This checkin to GC54E1W WAG 15 - Action! reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Sometimes the geo-sense "just works". This was one of those moments. I was approaching the area and checking the distance. Then I walked straight to a likely location. Then I picked up the cache. Done and โ€ฆ

    Read more (37 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC54E1W
    • posted 28 August, 2023
  • Found GC72TZ5 WAG 14 - Wander through Wroxhills

    This checkin to GC72TZ5 WAG 14 - Wander through Wroxhills reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Turning South and crossing our own path, the sun came out at last and we were bathed in glorious warm light. Between that, and the familiarity of the trail we passed, the geopup and โ€ฆ

    Read more (68 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC72TZ5
    • posted 28 August, 2023
  • A French Bulldog looks out over a field which contains many pigsties and pigs.

    Found GC54DR7 WAG 9 - Sausages & Bacon!

    This checkin to GC54DR7 WAG 9 - Sausages & Bacon! reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Worra lorra porkers! The geopup is a huge fan of sausages but I don't think she understood that the cornucopia she was looking at across the field was the same thing, just a few โ€ฆ

    Read more (65 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC54DR7
    • posted 28 August, 2023
  • Found GC54DTF WAG 10 - Track-able

    This checkin to GC54DTF WAG 10 - Track-able reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The geopup and I tried a couple of likely hiding places before we found this one. A nice-sized container and well-suited to its hiding place, here, TFTC!

    Read more (27 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC54DTF
    • posted 28 August, 2023

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