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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My Default Apps at the End of 2023
All the cool kids are sharing their "lifestack" as we approach the end of 2023. Here's mine.
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ET App
Travelling around Edinburgh by tram this weekend, I kept being advertised the "ET app".
I didn't install the app, in case it was bundled with spyware.
After all, everybody my age knows: ET phones home.
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Bramble
Fresh D&D campaign! I'm playing a Harengon Barbarian.
I'm a fierce bunny rabbit! -
Gemini Squared
How did I never think of accessing Gemini (the protocol) on my Gemini (portable computer) before today?
Of course, I recently rehomed my Gemini so instead I had to access Gemini on my Cosmo. -
Gemini and Spartan without a browser
Half a dozen different ways of downloading content from Gemini (and Spartan) servers from the command-line using everyday tools.
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Making WordPress Fast (The Hard Way)
Lots of guides explain how to improve WordPress performance easily. This guide is different. I'd like to share the hard ways in which you might squeeze even more speed out of your WordPress site.
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Incredible Doom
I just read a comic book full of early-Internet nostalgia that delighted me, and wanted to share it with you.
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Reading Rolled Papyri
Researchers using x-ray tomography have for the first time managed to read an entire word from one of the carbonised Herculaneum scrolls, and that's awesome.
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Absence/Presents
Unless you're a child, I won't be buying you a Christmas present. And you shouldn't feel like you have to get me one, either.
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Monster Munch Sandwich
Experimenting with some unusual combinations in anticipation of International Crisp Sandwich Day. Today's is Roast Beef Monster Munch on Farmhouse White.
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Weird A.I. Yankovic, a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning
What if Weird Al wrote the original versions of the songs the covered, and the other artists did the parody covers? With "thanks" to AI voice deepfake technology, and some work by Andy Baio, we can answer that question.
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Easy FoundryVTT Cloud Hosting
People keep asking for a quick-and-easy guide to setting up a cloud hosted FoundryVTT server. So I wrote one.
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Watch with Pride
With thanks to Shawn Rast of Pride Bands, my watch/fitness tracker proudly sports some new colours.
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Out of the Trees
In 1976, Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams made a single episode of a sketch comedy show which was broadcast only once before the master tapes were destroyed. It took significant work to recover, but that's small potatoes compared to the ephemeral media we create today.
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Found GC2HDCZ Tom Burts Cache 4
This checkin to GC2HDCZ Tom Burts Cache 4 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found while walking into High Wycombe to work after dropping my canine caching-companion (pictured) off at the nearby veterinary hospital for an operation. Didn't need her help with this easy find, luckily! Shame about all the …