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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Why, when I change the temperature on the thermostat of my Renault Zoe does it change the fan direction, too? Is this a UI affordance for people who want their faces colder but their feet warmer? I don't understand!
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A white hand turns the thermostat knob in a car from 19℃ to 20℃ in 0.5℃ increments; the untouched nearby fan direction control seems to change of its own accord. Initially blowing towards the user's face it switches on 'towards feet' at 19.5℃ and switches off 'towards face' at 20℃, and reverses the process when the temperature is turned down again.
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Coding Is When We’re Least Productive
Jason Gorman shares a wonderful anecdote about a workday in which he wrote only three lines of code, but that he considers productive because he took the time to understand the underlying problem he was working on.
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Found GCBPAKM Grab a seat and Take in the View
Sat in the shade with my panting pupper and almost immediately spotted this clever cache container. A great location and an imaginative container! Definitely worth an FP from me.
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Found GCBPAMZ Not the Twiggist of finds
A good hiding spot for this type of cache, which the geohound and I found while on a walk this sunny morning. TFTC.
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Dynamically-Deployed Static Site Subdomains on Caddy
Continuing my effort to find a way to serve my various static sites that meets my need for ease-of-use and low-maintenance, I configured a wildcard Caddy server with webhook-based monitoring of a GitHub repository. Here's how it works...
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Thames Path 7
Ruth's completed yet another stretch of the Thames Path, continuing at what could literally be described as a glacial pace, and she's written another part in what's turning out to be a wonderful blog series to follow-along with.
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Even this self-checkout thinks I'm eating too much chocolate.
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Self-checkout screen abbreviating a product name to 'Cadbury Giant Butt'.
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Geohashing expedition 2026-05-06 51 -1
This checkin to geohash 2026-05-06 51 -1 reflects a geohashing expedition. See more of Dan's hash logs. Location
Large field near Tawny's Farm, East of Stanton Harcourt.
Participants
Dan Q
Plans
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Four OpenBenches
Despite Google making it harder for me to do so 🤬, I managed to add not one, not two, not three but four new memorial benches to the OpenBenches database during a dog walk this morning.
A particular excitement was adding my first bench with two plaques.
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A Postcard from Norway!
I've received another postcard-from-the-Internet: this one's from grubbyfox, in Norway!
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How kind of the humans who constructed this sofa to leave a perfect dog-shaped nest in-between the cushions. Our pupper is appreciative.
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A satisfied but sleepy-looking fawn-coloured French Bulldog lies on a blanket that's slipping into the crack between two sofa seat cushions, forming a nest around her torso. Her legs hang, crossed, off the front of the sofa.
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Moving a static site from GitHub to Codeberg Pages
I was recently reminded that I wanted to try out Codeberg Pages, so I migrated a static site over from GitHub Pages. It mostly worked, and a learned a little along the way about how Codeberg Pages works.
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Reply to: Who knows that you blog?
David (of Forking Mad+) asked "who knows that you blog?". I join the increasing list of bloggers who've answered his question.
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Spoon bucket
Jaime Derringer shared that she got a literal bucket of assorted spoons for her birthday, and I'm just delighted to discover that such a thing exists.
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Found GCBMAMH #22 Northmoor Loop
This checkin to GCBMAMH #22 Northmoor Loop reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. For a while I was looking way too high, but in the end I caught a glimpse of this surprisingly well-concealed container.
And that's the loop complete! Big thanks to the CO for setting this excellent …