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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The 2016 HTPC Build
I've loved many computers in my life, but the HTPC has always had a special place in my heart. It's the only always-on workhorse computer in our house, it is utterly silent, totally reliable, sips power, and it's at the center of our home entertainment, networking, storage, and gaming. This handy box does it all,…
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Zopfli Optimization: Literally Free Bandwidth
In 2007 I wrote about using PNGout to produce amazingly small PNG images. I still refer to this topic frequently, as seven years later, the average PNG I encounter on the Internet is very unlikely to be optimized.
For example, consider this recent Perry Bible Fellowship cartoon...
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Immersive Storytelling - Thoughts on Virtual Reality, part 1
Dan's been playing with a Google Cardboard, and it's nothing like The Lawnmower Man nor like any of his virtual reality experiences in the 1990s. The adventure begins...
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Highlights of 2016 so far
Dan kicks off the new year with some happy highlights.
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Raspberry Pi VPN Hotspot (or How To Infuriate Theresa May For Under £40)
For a small sum of money and a little time, you too can have a little box that encrypts everything on your WiFi network until it leaves the UK.
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Found GLKAACPV Requiem Aeternam
This checkin to GLKAACPV Requiem Aeternam reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Greetings from Oxford, England! We stayed in a nearby houseboat while in Leiden for a wedding. I enjoyed the chance for a walk through these lovely grounds. TFTC!
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@DataGenetics did a nice piece on Lychrel Numbers - https://t.co/4MCoRFXogC. I wonder how they differ in non-decimal bases?
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The Magician
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Review of Hacknet
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. Hacknet Rating: 👍 I've been a huge fan of the "hacker game" ever since I first played 1985's Hacker on my Amstrad CPC: I'm pretty hardened to the genre, and I can confidently say that not since Uplink has anything broken through my firewall …
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Twee2 - Interactive Fiction Authoring for Geeks
To the complete lack of surprise of anybody who knows him, Dan found a single tiny flaw in a piece of software, and reacted by reimplementing that software from scratch. Twee2 is his attempt to make it possible for people to write Twine 2-style interactive fiction from a command-line interface.
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The Set of All Things
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@misterjta, @fleeblewidget and I ALL thought it was our turn to order wine. 40 bottles just turned up. #whoopsdrunk http://t.co/5cxomwaEvg
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Posted a note for GC54F7N Oxford Steganography #4 - Tilt
This checkin to GC54F7N Oxford Steganography #4 - Tilt reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. This is definitely now inaccessible and has been muggled. I'm scouting for a new location for this cache, but in the meantime, anybody who wants to complete the series can send me a private message …
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Into the Lair of the Bladder Monster
Following his recent illness, Dan undergoes a variety of investigative procedures, including having a fibreoptic bundle inserted into bladder... via his penis!
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Quiz Kid
Perry Bible Fellowship