Author: Dan Q
Dan Q is a software engineer, a director of a voluntary organisation, a trainee counsellor, a keen geocacher, and an amateur magician. He lives with his partner and her husband in a polyamorous triad, and occasionally finds time to blog.
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Story Time
On his 40th birthday, Dan shares a comic about an old guy reminiscing about 2020. Hey, wait...
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Having Kids In Our Poly Triad by Sara Valta
Sara’s back! You might remember a couple of years ago she’d shared with us a comic on her first year in a polyamory! We’re happy to have her back with a slice of life and a frank n’ real conversation about having kids in her Poly Triad relationship.
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The Fourth Way to Inject CSS
Dan explains why using Link: HTTP headers for stylesheets should be considered a distinct way of loading CSS (that you can't use).
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Downloading a YouTube Music Playlist for Offline Play
When Dan is asked how to get YouTube Music onto a retro MP3 player, he uses it as an excuse to explain the process of writing a web scraper.
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Robin's Ten Minute ICE CHALLENGE
For his 30th consecutive day of training his body to withstand sub-zero temperatures using the Wim Hof method, with up to five minutes in a cold bath every day, Robin stepped up his game and challenged himself to withstand a solid ten minutes, outdoors, in an ice-filled paddling pool.
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New Blood Donation Rules Better, I Suppose
The rules for NHS blood donation have changed to be more-inclusive, especially of men who have sex with men. But the collateral damage is that Dan's partner now CAN'T give blood!
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Despite the fact that it's existed for 11 years, TIL about globstar in Bash. Set shopt -s globstar and ** globs become fully recursive, making that bulk transcode operation much simpler. 🤯
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Banners Begone!
Dan shares a progressive web-based clicker game he played recently.
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COVID Ipsum
Using random text generator tool perchance, Dan produces a COVID conspiracy theory themed lorem ipsum text generator.
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Staying Sane with GEMSAW
Dan shares GEMSAW, the mnemonic acronym behind his self-care routine during these challenging times.
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Recursively repackaging .mkvs as .mp4s
for f in **/*.mkv; do echo "$f"; ffmpeg -y -hide_banner -loglevel panic -i "$f" -c copy "${f%.mkv}.mp4"; rm "$f"; done
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Watching Films Together... Apart
This weekend, Dan hosted a film night for his friends via the magic of the Internet. Here's how he made it work.
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Why children stay silent following sexual violence
As a survivor of sexual assault and as a parent, Kristin Jones shares her thoughts on why child victims don't speak up. Dan summarises her thoughts within the framework of his own generation and culture.
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Sometimes, I miss Troma Night. Hanging out with my friends and watching awful/awesome films over pizza and beer.
If only there were a way to do it during lockdown?
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The Longest Limebike ride in history
Dan shares Robin's latest digital creation, The Improbable Blog, with its write-up of the Lime Bikes adventure he went on the other year.