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  • Screenshot of YOURLS interface showing Dan Q's list of shortened links. Six are shown of 1,939 total.

    Making an RSS feed of YOURLS shortlinks

    After switching his personal shortlinks from S.2 to YOURLS, Dan dusts off his XSLT experience to make himself an RSS feed of his shortlinks!

    Read more - about 7 minutes (1663 words)

    • Article
    • 5 comments
    • posted 5 October, 2021
  • 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.

    When do I #blog? A breakdown of my top four #indieweb content types - articles, reposts, checkins and notes - by month.

    Read more (93 words)

    • Note
    • 7 comments
    • posted 9 September, 2021
  • Image representing post: Reply to "I was permanently banned by Facebook"

    Reply to "I was permanently banned by Facebook"

    Dan replies to fellow Automattician Donncha's post about getting banned from Facebook to share his own experience, which lead to a similar conclusion.

    Read more (282 words)

    • Reply
    • posted 25 January, 2021
  • Image representing post: Thames Path 2

    Thames Path 2

    Dan's partner Ruth and her brother Robin are walking the Thames Path over many instalments, and Dan suggests you read-along!

    Read more (234 words)

    • Repost
    • 1 comment
    • posted 2 November, 2020
  • WordPress at 17

    Celebrate Seventeen

    Happy birthday, WordPress!

    Read more (205 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 28 May, 2020
  • Image representing post: Thursday

    Thursday

    Gareth's providing a daily briefing including all the important things that the government wants you to know about the coronavirus crisis... and a few things that they didn't think to tell you, but perhaps they should've.

    Read more (116 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 8 May, 2020
  • Image representing post: Happy Birthday, You're Fired

    Happy Birthday, You're Fired

    Robin's latest blog sort-of reads like a contemporaneously-written "what I did on my holidays" report, except that it's pretty-much about the opposite of a holiday: it chronicles Robin's adventures in the North of England during these strange times.

    Read more (133 words)

    • Repost
    • 1 comment
    • posted 21 April, 2020
  • Rendered RSS feed showing Post Kinds prefixes

    Identifying Post Kinds in WordPress RSS Feeds

    Dan shares the code he's written to improve Indieweb Post Kinds support in his RSS feeds.

    Read more (297 words)

    • Article
    • 12 comments
    • posted 1 March, 2020
  • Nice simple design, @typehut, but with no RSS, Atom, nor h-feed you've made a blog platform to which readers can only subscribe by email. ๐Ÿ˜ข

    Read more (24 words)

    • Note
    • 2 comments
    • posted 6 January, 2020
  • Third party

    Jeremy Keith wonders if the Web would have third-party cookies and JS at all if it were invented today, and Dan weighs in.

    Read more (435 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 15 November, 2019
  • Image representing post: Consume less, create more

    Consume less, create more

    We should spend less time reading and more time writing online. Dan's comments on an inspiring essay.

    Read more (390 words)

    • Repost
    • 2 comments
    • posted 2 October, 2019
  • Image representing post: Subscribe by Email

    Subscribe by Email

    You can now subscribe to a daily digest by email. Never miss a thing!

    Read more (201 words)

    • Article
    • 3 comments
    • posted 1 October, 2019
  • Unpopular blog

    So You Want To Start An Unpopular Blog

    A fellow unpopular blogger shares the secret of their lack of success, with commentary from Dan.

    Read more (154 words)

    • Repost
    • 3 comments
    • posted 28 September, 2019
  • Argyll Forest, as photographed by Beverley Newing

    Motorbiking to Scotland

    My friend Bev wrote about their motorcycling adventure up and down the UK; it's pretty awesome.

    Read more (286 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 19 September, 2019
  • Diagram illustrating the relationships between DanQ.me and the satellite services with which it interacts.

    DanQ.me Ecosystem

    Dan explains how he produces content for the Web, and his blog's place in the ecosystem of the places his content can be seen.

    Read more - about 8 minutes (1869 words)

    • Article
    • 9 comments
    • posted 15 July, 2019

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