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  • A person wearing a cardboard box on their head, labelled "BRAIN". Above, a hand reaches from out-of-frame to hold a sign labelled "IDEA" above them.

    [Bloganuary] My Biggest Challenge

    What's the biggest challenge on my horizon as I come into the New Year? Right now, it feels like it's Bloganuary! But there's an underlying challenge of winter motivation and procrastination that makes Bloganuary seem so hard.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (498 words)

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    • posted 1 January, 2024
  • A white man wearing a spacesuit sits on a pebble beach using a laptop.

    They See Me (Blog)Rolling

    Inspired by Tracy Durnell, I've for the first time since 2008 started publishing a 'blogroll' of people I follow (now, dynamically-produced from my feed reader!).

    Read more - about 3 minutes (533 words)

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    • posted 18 December, 2023
  • Logo: "Welcome to the underground", in black and red.

    The Underground Blog

    Chris McLeod's started a blog that's ONLY available via a feed reader. How cool is that?

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    • posted 14 December, 2023
  • Overlaid graphs showing blog post frequency by post kind on DanQ.me, throughout its entire history and through the calendar year.

    Blogging Stats

    I finally got around to automating the generation of statistics about my blogging frequency. Now with interactive graphs!

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    • Article
    • posted 13 December, 2023
  • I don't want your data

    Manu doesn't want your data, and I don't either.

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    • posted 7 December, 2023
  • Screenshot showing emoji reaction buttons: thumbs up, starry eyes, surprised, flexed bicep, about-to-vomit, t-rex. The t-rex has been selected.

    Emoji Reactions

    I added a stupid feature to my blog.
    On some posts, including this one, you can now send an "emoji reaction". Y'know, for if you're too lazy to write a comment.
    The available reactions vary by post.
    That is all.

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    • posted 24 November, 2023
  • Traditional inkwell and pen, the latter held in an inkstained finger grip, being used to write a letter on unbleached paper atop a wooden desk.

    Pen Pals Wanted

    Please will you be my pen pal for one month in 2024?

    Read more - about 4 minutes (781 words)

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    • 2 comments
    • posted 13 November, 2023
  • Screenshot of DanQ.me's RSS feed as viewed in Firefox, showing a "Q" logo and three recent posts.

    Better WordPress RSS Feeds

    I've been adding bonus features to my blog's RSS feeds for a while now. Wanna hear about them?

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1184 words)

    • Article
    • posted 28 July, 2023
  • Photo showing a mobile phone, held in a hand, being used to take a photograph of a rugged coastline landscape.

    Short-Term Blogging

    Next time you've got something to share or a personal project, why not start a blog?

    Read more - about 3 minutes (516 words)

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 25 July, 2023
  • Dan asks: "Tell me about the blogger who runs DanQ.me" ChatGPT responds: "Dan Q is the blogger and web developer who runs the website "DanQ.me". He is a British computer scientist, game designer, and open-source software developer. DanQ.me is a personal website where Dan writes about a variety of topics, including technology, programming, and gaming. He is also known for creating the web-based puzzle game "Notpron," which has gained a large following online. In addition to his work on "DanQ.me" and "Notpron," Dan has contributed to several open-source software projects, including the Linux operating system and the Mozilla web browser. He has also worked as a software developer for several companies, including Google and Canonical. Dan is active on social media, particularly Twitter, where he frequently shares his thoughts on technology and other topics." The screenshot is marked up with the bits about gaming and being active on social media marked "stretching/exaggerating", the bits about Notpron, Linux, Mozilla, and Canonical being "believable lies", and the bits about Twitter and Google identified as "complete bollocks"

    AI is lying to you

    Despite how much of DanQ.me is tokenised by ChatGPT, it still outright lies when asked about it. Why is this, and what does it mean for our use of LLMs?

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    • posted 20 April, 2023
  • Thoughts on Editing Posts

    Kev Quirk commits to continuing NOT to edit his old blog posts. I'm in the same boat.

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    • posted 22 March, 2023
  • Automattic Acquires ActivityPub Plugin for WordPress

    WPTavern reports that Automattic is to acquire Matthias Pfefferle's ActivityPub plugin for WordPress, and I couldn't be more excited!

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    • 23 comments
    • posted 14 March, 2023
  • Kev Quirk: Ten Years of Blogging

    My thoughts on Kev Quirk's learnings from ten years of blogging.

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    • posted 23 January, 2023
  • Screenshot showing this blog rendered as plain text as the result of running finger blog@danq.me at a Linux terminal.

    Finger Portal to WordPress Blog

    Has anybody ever made a Finger-to-WordPress gateway before? No? Can you imagine why that might be?

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    • posted 17 November, 2022
  • Blog posts by type and month, a graph showing how articles barely change throughout the year but reposts are highest in the first half of the year, checkins peak in the spring and summer, and notes get a big boost in November.

    Reply to An Accidentally β€˜Anti-January’ January



    Siobhan said:



    I fell off the blogging bandwagon just as everyone else was hopping onto it.

    ...


    Siobhan Bamber

    I was just thinking the same! It felt like everybody and their dog did Bloganuary last month, meanwhile I went in the opposite direction!

    Historically, there's been an annual dip in my blogging around February/March …

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    • posted 7 February, 2022

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