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Month: April 2025

  • Found GC97N3H Lodge Hill C & D

    QEF as a cache-and-dash. This afternoon, owing to Some Plot, I needed to go speak to a lawyer in Abingdon, and rewarded myself on a successful mission by visiting this cache on my way home. TFTC!

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    • posted 3 April, 2025
  • Apparently Automattic are laying off around one in six of their workforce. And I'm one of the unlucky ones.

    Anybody remote hiring for a UK-based full-stack web developer (in a world that doesn't seem to believe that full-stack developers exist anymore) with 25+ years professional experience, specialising in PHP, Ruby, JS, HTML, CSS, devops, and about 50% of CMSes you've ever heard of (and probably some you haven't)... with a flair for security, accessibility, standards-compliance, performance, and DexEx?

    CV at: https://danq.me/cv

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    • posted 2 April, 2025
  • Dan, in a library, smiles as he holds up a certificate that certifies that he is an Aquarius.

    Change Your Star Sign

    The star sign associated with my birthday is Capricorn, and I really don't embody any of the typical Capricorn characteristics, so I changed my star sign to Aquarius. And today, I've launched a website to help others change their star signs, too. What will you change yours to?

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    • posted 2 April, 2025
  • My on-again-off-again relationship with AI assistants

    Like me, Sean McPherson finds AI agents sometimes useful... but struggles with whether they're actually as useful as some folks seem to claim.

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    • posted 1 April, 2025

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