Notes – Page 17

Autumnal

Waiting patiently at the school gates on a distinctly Autumnal morning, our pupper’s squat stature means she’s about knee-deep in the season’s golden leaves.

Enumerating Domains

I’ve just enumerated my personal domain names. There’s a lot fewer of them than there used to be!¹

Anyway: here’s the list –

danq.me and a variety of aliases (danq.uk, danq.dev, danq.link, danq.blog, scatmania.org); there’s also like a billion subdomains in use of course, like things.danq.me and find.danq.me
freedeedpoll.org.uk, which I really ought to update at some point but which still clearly helps many people
dndle.app, a D&D-inspired Wordle-clone which I still get bug reports and pull requests for so clearly somebody’s using it
geohashing.site, the central hub of Geohashing activity worldwide
egxchange.org, which hosts the most environmentally-friendly cryptocurrency wallet you’ll ever see
abnib.co.uk, a community of friends (also with about a billion subdomains)
q-t-a.uk, my family website, which exists mostly to facilitate addressing for a stack of internal/selfhosted services
rockmonkey.org.uk, which doesn’t do much nowadays
fleeblewidget.co.uk, my partner’s blog, but I look after the domain registration
textplain.blog, my plain-text blog
levellers.blog, the blog of my D&D group
theimprobable.blog, which I look after on behalf of my partner’s brother after using it to GPS-track his adventures

I think that’s all of them, but it’s hard to be sure…

Footnotes

¹ Maybe I’ve finally shaken off my habit of buying a domain name for everything. Or maybe it’s just that I’ve embraced subdomains for more stuff. Probably the latter.

Note #24972

Future Arimaa grand masters at practice, this Sunday morning boardgaming session.

Any Cup

In spite of their signage, Costa weren’t happy to take my old jockstrap for recycling.

Quesapizza Lunch

After a morning of optimising a nonprofit’s reverse proxy configuration, I feel like I’ve earned my lunch! Four cheese, mushroom and jalapeño quesapizzas, mmm…

My Car is Sad

All! The! Warning! Lights! By the time a car needs to pahinate the error messages it wants to display, something has definitely gone wrong. 😬

Go back to bed!

Things my children have gotten out of bed to say to me tonight:

I don’t want to go to school tomorrow
I can’t find [name of toy]
I want [name of toy I lent to my sibling] back
if I’m ill, I don’t have to go to school tomorrow, right?
I can’t sleep
I might be ill: I don’t think I should go to school tomorrow
I want a hot water bottle
I’m too hot
I’ve lost my hot water bottle
I spilt my water¹
I went to the toilet because I thought I was going to throw up but I didn’t but I think I’m too ill to go to school tomorrow
my book is wet
I forgot to brush my teeth
I don’t like these pyjamas
I still can’t sleep

Footnotes

¹ it later turned out to have been spilled on an electrical extension socket! 😱

Note #24906

As the kids grow older… someday our final soft play session – something we used to do all the time, and now do only rarely – will be in the past.

But for now, at least, it remains a chaotic way to tire them out on a morning!

Note #24882

Okay, is every company using AI to fuck up their mailing lists, now?

For the second time this week I’ve received an email from a company whom I’d explicitly demanded cease processing my PII. This time, in February they outright told me that they’d deleted my data and sent screenshots to “prove” it (which was already after they’d failed to unsubscribe me from their mailing lists in the first place).

Note #24871

Just received an unsolicited marketing email from a company that I asked to remove me from their systems eleven and a half years ago (!).

I haven’t heard from them since then.

The marketing email is sent using a platform that “uses AI to help you seamlessly connect with your customers”. By which I assume the platform means “we’ll crawl your email history to find anybody we can possibly spam”.

Just gonna go grab my GDPR/DPA2018 beating-stick. This is gonna be a fun one.