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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Is Anthropic going to prove me wrong?
Anthropic's latest numbers seem to suggest that they're the first GenAI company to actually make money! But we ought to take that with an enormous pinch of salt.
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Man Who Identifies as a ‘Humanist’ Gets Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work
If your religious beliefs are incompatible with your use of a particular tool that isn't essential for a particular kind of work, then you should absolutely be able to be exempted from using those tools. At least, that's the legal verdict in this case!
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Fragments
Photographic fragments from the last six weeks of my camera roll, presented without context, inspired by Eric Foltin.
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Installing Websites Must Be Easy
Some excellent recommendations from the W3C's TAG on installability of web applications to the "desktop", whether or not they have defined manifests/are PWAs. I really hope to see the major OS and browser manufacturers take these recommendations on board!
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Did not find GC6Q39P Cur.Bri.Lew 9
This checkin to GC6Q39P Cur.Bri.Lew 9 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Made two searches for this - one on the way out, one on the way back - but I'm confident that it simply isn't there. CO attention needed.
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Found GC6Q39H Cur.Bri.Lew 8
A quick find while walking the dog after running an errand nearby. Container in very poor condition, unlikely to survive a big winter storm. Re-hid as found. TTFC.
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/domains - a /slashpage for people who buy too many domain names
I buy too many domain names. So to help keep track of them... and to let the world see how bad my purchasing problem has gotten... I've come up with the "/domains" /slashpage. Perhaps you want one, too?
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.well-known/slashpages
Matthias Pfefferle proposes an OPML-based .well-known/slashpages in a similar vein to my own .well-known/feeds. I love it, and I've implemented it right here on DanQ.me!
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The Mythical Man-Month in the age of AI
Jan van den Berg suggests that the corollary to the Mythical Man-Month in the age of AI might be: "Adding agents to a project with unclear requirements gets you the wrong answer faster."
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We Played Hide & Seek across Greater London
The rest of the family and I spent a long weekend playing Jet Lag's "Hide & Seek" across Greater London. Here's how that went, and what we learned about playing the game (and, in particular, playing it with preteen children!).
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It’s Time to Come Back to Firefox. The Internet You Loved Is Still Here
The Firefox team absolutely knocking it out of the park by rallying the faces of the memes you've missed and using them as a reminder that the Web you've missed is still out there. And your choice of web browser is part of your choice to see that.
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Let this be your reminder to check on how your computer systems truncate long strings for public display.
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Cinema films list starting with the truncated title 'Ghosts: The Possession of Butt'
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Found GC13NEG From a Swan to the Canary: Hermit
I'm in London for a long weekend of Jet Lag Hide & Seek, staying at a hotel a little to the North of here. After having to DNF Aldgate East Sidetracked, which is pretty much below my bedroom window but seems to have gone walkabout, I felt like I needed a geocaching win so I waked down here to hunt for this one.
Initially starting atop the bridge I soon realised that I needed to approach this one from the waterfront. I first found a more-obvious hiding spot - perhaps the home of the larger muggled container? - before checking the hint and locating its younger sibling.
Greeted some swans before beginning the rainy walk back to check out of my hotel. -
Did not find GC6R926 TUBE SideTracked - Aldgate East
I've been in London playing Hide & Seek (by Jet Lag rules) and my hotel overlooks this fountain. I came down to take a look - the "running hooves" splash effect is pretty great!
Sadly, the cache was nowhere to be found, though. I found the right dog and prodded and poked it, as well as running an investigative mirror around every side of it, without success. Think it might have vanished! -
Found GC9BD0E Church Micro 14013...Clerkenwell - St Marks
QEF in the second hiding place I tried, while out playing Jet Lag The Game with the family (my hiding zone is the 500m around Angel Station and I wanted to find a generic looking church that I can send a picture of if the seekers' team asks for one!). TFTC!