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  • Inspired by a conversation with Elle (@e11e@mastodon.social), I expanded my FreshRSS-to-blogroll generator to support injecting 88ร—31 buttons (where I have them) for folks I follow.

    There's still a way to go, but my blogroll's looking a little prettier as a result.

    • Note
    • 2 comments
    • posted 20 January, 2026
  • 90s-style-homepage version of DanQ.me, as generated by geocities.live. It features patterned backgrounds, Comic Sans, gaudy colours, and tables.

    Geocities Live

    Geocities.live transforms any web page into a 90s-Geocities-style variant of itself, and it does a surprisingly good (if slightly "samey") job of it. Its take on DanQ.me got me thinking, though: are there things I can learn from 1990s web design and apply to the next generation of my theme?

    Read more - about 3 minutes (477 words)

    • Article
    • posted 18 April, 2025
  • An arrow points from a WordPress logo to a ClassicPress logo, with the stylised/sliced 'Q' that is the icon of DanQ.me sitting atop the arrow.

    WordPress to ClassicPress

    A few weeks ago I switched this blog to ClassicPress, a fork of WordPress. Here's a deep dive into how (and why) I did it, as well as a look into what my experience so-far has been with this (mostly-)cut-down version of the world's most popular CMS.

    Read more - about 10 minutes (2205 words)

    • Article
    • 5 comments
    • posted 18 February, 2025
  • Screenshot showing this blog post, viewed in Firefox.

    Blog Questions Challenge

    I must be the last blogger on Earth left to do Ava/Kev's 'Blog Questions Challenge'. Let's get to it.

    Read more - about 8 minutes (1859 words)

    • Article
    • 5 comments
    • posted 7 February, 2025
  • Cloud-shaped wordcloud of tags used on DanQ.me, sized by frequency. The words "geocaching" and "cache log" dominate the centre of the picture, with terms like "fun", "funny", "geeky", "news", "video games", "technology", "video", and "review" a close second.

    Can AI retroactively fix WordPress tags?

    My blog's tagging is a mess. With posts going back 27 years, an inconsistent taxonomy, and changes in focus, that's pretty-much inevitable. Perhaps an AI can help: reading through old under-tagged posts and suggesting tags that could be added? Let's try it...

    Read more - about 12 minutes (2750 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 30 January, 2025
  • 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
  • A Suitable Boy, seen from the edge

    A Suitable Blog

    Dan writes the 594,000th (surviving) word in his blog, making it longer than virtually every novel, and reveals that his family will be getting a little larger this year.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (610 words)

    • Article
    • 6 comments
    • posted 21 June, 2016

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