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.
-
Found GCB1N17 Square root of E/m
This checkin to GCB1N17 Square root of E/m reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF for the geohound and I. My GPSr can't connect to the Internet and I'm not retyping a URL into my phone so I can't comment on the hint, but the cache itself is fine. SL, …
-
Found GC7PC86 North Leigh Number 6
This checkin to GC7PC86 North Leigh Number 6 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Coming from Leigh Loop 8 the geohound and I figured we had an easy and direct run here, but intolerable mud at the East end of the field path drove us out onto the road and …
-
Found GCAABQ1 North Leigh Loop #8
This checkin to GCAABQ1 North Leigh Loop #8 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Since our house flooded a few weeks ago we've been living out of a series of short holiday lets, waiting for the floors to dry out and the insurance company to assess the damage, before we'll …
-
Non-exhaustive list of things I'm doing when I'm writing code, that don't look like "writing code":
- thinking
- researching
- contextualising
- testing
- measuring
- documenting
- communicating
- planning
- future-proofing
- educating
- learning
- expressing
- anticipating
- discovering
- inventing
- experimenting
- debugging
- analysing
- monitoring
For all its faults, an AI agent might "write code" faster than me.
But that's only a part of the process.
My typing speed is not the bottleneck.
-
Wrote note for GC9EXXC Shady Seat on The Green
Spring's coming, and with it a stack of cachers either new or else returning from hibernation. Therefore; I'm briefly checking-in on my geocaches to ensure they're in good condition. Today I peeped at this one, and found it happy and well and ready to be hunted. Go find it!
-
One last outing for the dog and I along the Cotswold lane we've been living on, before we move to different temporary accommodation tomorrow.
Alt
French Bulldog stands patiently in the centre of a potholed rural single track lane.
We're hoping soon to no-longer have to move every week or two, but we're not at that point yet.
-
In sympathy for our flood situation, my sister baked and posted us a big batch of her fantastic raisin & oatmeal cookies.
Alt
Dan, a white man with a goatee beard and blue hair, sits next to a large box of cookies, about to eat one.
I've eaten like six of them already. Turns out I stress-eat. Who knew?
-
F-Day plus 19
Nineteen days after my house flooded, causing extensive damage on the ground floor, the insurance company has finally accepted the claim and is willing to pay for our temporary accommodation in the meantime (a few days in a hotel, a few days with friends although that's not paid-for, four weeks in two different holiday lets), although we're still waiting for their thumbs-up on a proposal for a ~6-month let of a house to live in while our floors are replaced and our kitchen rebuilt and whatnot.
Meanwhile, yesterday a surveyor came around and looked at all of our walls. Everything still feels like it's taking a very long time. I appreciate that insurance companies are a maze of bureaucracy and procedure, but from "this side" of the table - living and working out of strange places, never really feeling "unpacked" but without it being a holiday - it's all a bit of a drag! -
Subverting AI Agent Logging with a Git Post-Commit Hook
I keep hearing from developer friends who are 'expected' by their employer to demonstrate that they're using AI, even for tasks at which the AI is demonstrably a suboptimal choice. So - as a joke - I came up with a git post-commit hook that makes it look like they're doing so, even when they're not.
-
Caution: No Swimming
Hurrah! I just made my first successful submission to Curious Cones, a weblog collecting photographs of traffic cones spotted in unusual places.
-
Found GCBAJC3 Cache me if you can, Jeremy
Despite being relatively 'local' - only half a mile away, and fans of the show - it took until this morning before the family and I actually came to up visit Clarkson's Farm.
-
Why Apple’s move to video could endanger podcasting's greatest power
Apple's podcast player's new video standard locks-in video hosting to one of a pre-approved list of providers. What the fuck, Apple?
-
Found GC3PQ4P LOL #14 - Taekwondo
Unbelievably muddy today Took me so long to pick my way along the boggy path (pictured) that this'll probably be my only cache of the day. Still, one more for my LOL collection!
-
snakes.run: rendering 100M pixels a second over ssh
I'd been speculating for the last month or so what Nolen Royalty had been working on recently that had required such high-performance out of the SSH protocol, but now we know: it's massively multiplayer snake.
-
What can you do with a software privacy polariser?
Samsung's 2026 phones will feature a dynamic privacy filter, blacking-out parts of the screen selectively from shoulder-surfers. I'm so curious about the capabilities of (and API for) this technology: what could I make it do?