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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Dwitter
Dwitter is a community of <canvas> artists who write Javascript programs of no more than 140 characters to produce beautiful graphical output. Some favourites: Bluer waves, d/3697, d/4388. If the demoscene were invented today, this is what it might look like. -
Visualisation of bike rides around Tampa, Florida
A visualisation of bike rides around Tampa, Florida, taken from the GPS logs of bike-sharing scheme Coast Bikes' vehicles. -
Ride the World's Longest Zipline in the UAE
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National Geographic
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Games to Play With Your Child in Which You Barely Have to Move or Talk
Games to Play With Your Child in Which You Barely Have to Move or Talk by by Raquel D'Apice (The Ugly Volvo) I see a lot of ideas online for things to do with your child, but most of them are a lot of work. Many of them involve an unnerving amount of craftiness and/or …
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Storytime: Rebel Lieutenant
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We've Always Hated Girls Online: A Wayback Machine Investigation
We’ve Always Hated Girls Online: A Wayback Machine Investigation by Julianne Aguilar (Longreads) Julianne Aguilar | Longreads | February 2018 | 14 minutes (2,894 words) Once upon a time, in 1999, when the internet was small, when it came through your phone and not just on your phone, when the first browser war had not …
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Faceswapping, Unethical Videos, and Future Shock
Faceswapping, Unethical Videos, and Future ShockYouTube (youtube.com)
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Launching An Entire Fireworks Display At Once
Tom Scott - YouTube (YouTube) Hi, I'm Tom Scott. These are some of the things I've made and done. They'll probably come back to haunt me in a few years' time. (Want to get in touch about ...
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Lunar Lander
Back in 1997 Dan made a "Lunar Lander" game in Turbo Pascal. Twenty years on, he's re-implemented it in Javascript.
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Digest for February 2018
Summary
This month I developed a workaround to WordPress/Jetpack's (terrible) CAPTCHA, replaced "love" with "butt" in song lyrics (snortle), and argued with a pension provider that I shouldn't need a doctor's letter to justify changing my gender on their website from "not provided" to "not specified" because that isn't actually a change of gender identity, … -
Bureaucracy vs. Common Sense
When Dan's pension provider made "Gender" a mandatory field, he never expected to be asked to PROVE the gender he clicked on. Especially since he clicked on "Not provided"...
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Payment Options
http://buttersafe.com/2018/02/20/payment-options/ (buttersafe.com)
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2018 CVE List
xkcd: 2018 CVE List (xkcd.com)
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Posted a note for GC13WZQ Swing Lower (Historic Site)
This checkin to GC13WZQ Swing Lower (Historic Site) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. That's a shame, @brianbrianharvey. Who kicked you out, exactly? It should be possible to reach the cache without treading anywhere that you're not "allowed" to (i.e. you'd expect to spend some time on a public road, …
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Understanding Your Respiratory System
Understanding Your Respiratory System (Fake Science)
Fake Science