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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Temporarily disabled GC827X6 2019-01-08 51 -1, 09:19
This checkin to GC827X6 2019-01-08 51 -1, 09:19 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Thanks for the report, Team Hippo. Given the lack of activity and the usual thoroughness of the previous cacher, I'm going to choose to assume that this cache is inaccessible until I can get out there …
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Unreal Engine 5 is meant to ridicule web developers
The Olognion article showing off Unreal Engine 5's blazing fast multi-polygon rendering that makes your average Web page look like shit. It's satire, but there's a real point here.
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Celebrate Seventeen
Happy birthday, WordPress!
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Pyjama Party Water Fight
There comes a point where you've run out of new lockdown activity ideas, and you just start combining random pairs of activities you've already done.
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Future Challenges for Remote Working
As more and more companies (especially tech companies) talk about retaining a remote-work culture after the coronavirus crisis, Dan considers some of the future challenges they might face.
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A new Automattician who started this week looked me up to thank me for the first in my series of blog posts about starting with @automattic. I feel useful! 😍
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Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app
Dan comments on and summarises a news story that's got it all: screen scraping, pizza, venture capital, loophole exploitation, pizza, tech startups, and pizza.
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Scunthorpe Sans
The vole.wtf folks have made a font which uses ligatures to self-censor any naughty words you type.
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Why $FAMOUS_COMPANY switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY
Saagar Jha tells the now-familiar story of how a bunch of techbros solved their scaling problems by reinventing the wheel.
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Lucky Devil Eats
Strip clubs in the US can't run during the lockdown, and aren't eligible for financial support. But one strip club found a clever workaround.
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Found GC4PV71 BFG #05 – Slow-worm
This checkin to GC4PV71 BFG #05 – Slow-worm reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Another quick find with the kids on an otherwise random meander around the woods. Love that you've used proper-sized containers for the area. TFTC!
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Found GC4PV7E BFG #3– The Black Hairstreak
This checkin to GC4PV7E BFG #3– The Black Hairstreak reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I first came to this series in 2014 - seems like a lifetime ago! - but got called away by something (a problem with the beta of Three Rings' Milestone: Promethium) before I could find …
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What's wrong with London's boroughs?
Jay Foreman's back with a long-awaited tenth episode of Unfinished London.
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Chafed nipples. But we only have Frozen II themed plasters in the house. So now I'm wearing an Elsa & Anna pasties. How did my life come to this?
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Automattic Lockdown (days 79 to 206)
In another 128-day-interval update, Dan looks back on months two through six working for Automattic.