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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Enabled GC86MHH Top of the Footpath
This checkin to GC86MHH Top of the Footpath reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Turns out the glue I'd used had interacted badly with the material: wasn't melting because of the heat (although that won't have helped) but because of a chemical reaction on the plastic! Repaired and replaced, all …
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Temporarily disabled GC86MHH Top of the Footpath
This checkin to GC86MHH Top of the Footpath reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Wow, this cache container really HAS been damaged by the hot weather. Removed for repair, back this weekend hopefully!
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Why do people choose frameworks over vanilla JS?
This week on Twitter, Maxime Euzière asked why people choose large frameworks over vanilla JS. There are quite a few reasons. Some of them are really valid. Many of them aren't.
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Escape Room [NSFW]
If you've always wanted a comic combining B/D, gay sex, and escape room puzzles, by an awesome artist, you're in luck...
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Performed maintenance for GC1G4E3 Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take
This checkin to GC1G4E3 Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Added more-waterproof cache container. Improved clue. Note that old cache container may still be in place: wasn't able to find it and was being watched by muggles; I'll return to re-hunt for and remove the …
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Performed maintenance for OK045D Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take
This checkin to OK045D Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take reflects an opencache.uk log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Added new cache container. Improved clue.
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We're moving from Stage 2 to Stage 3 polyamory
Alan M. cites Leanna Wolfe's claim that we're moving, culturally-speaking, from the second to the third phase of the polyamory movement.
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Out of the ordinary: getting digital...
Getting digital at the Bodleian; a piece celebrating the work of my team.
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G7 Comes Out in Favor of Encryption Backdoors
From a G7 meeting of interior ministers in Paris this month, an "outcome document":
Encourage Internet companies to establish lawful access solutions for their products and services, including data that is encrypted, for law enforcement and competent authorities to access digital evidence, when it is removed or hosted on IT servers located abroad or … -
Oranges and Lemons
Our eldest sings a classic song.
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Posted a note for GC1G4E3 Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take
This checkin to GC1G4E3 Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. New cache container is assembled and ready to deploy as soon as I'm in the vicinity; hopefully next week!
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Our youngest, aged 2, may have just came up with his first joke.
Yellow duck: Quack quack quack. Quack quack quack quack.
Blue duck: Shut up. I hate quacking. -
Avengers Endgame: The Marvel Cinematic Universe explained
The BBC have adapted a Marvel infographic to show the order you SHOULD watch their films in.
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Edge Blink and Progressive Web Apps
Dan investigates the pioneering Progressive Web App features of Edge Dev.
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@rjavarley here's the photos I promised to send as you set off this morning on your epic sponsored Lime Bike ride from Lyme Regis to Limekilns.