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  • Heatmap showing Dan's movements around Kidlington, including a lot of time in the village and in Oxford City Centre, as well as hotspots at the hospital, parks, swimming pools, and places that Dan used to volunteer. Individual expeditions can also be identified.

    Heatmapping my Movements

    Leveraging a decade of past GPS data, Dan draws heatmaps of his movements around Oxfordshire.

    Read more - about 6 minutes (1395 words)

    • Article
    • 4 comments
    • posted 22 August, 2021
  • Three printed pocket code cards

    Spy's Guidebook Reborn

    When his 7-year-old asks Dan to print some crib from Usborne's Spy's Guidebook, he goes one step further and reimplements the cipher in Javascript.

    Read more (387 words)

    • Article
    • 3 comments
    • posted 9 April, 2021
  • Image representing post: Wix and Their Dirty Tricks

    Wix and Their Dirty Tricks

    Dan shares a post by Matt about Wix's awful new advertising campaign, and adds his own summary.

    Read more (384 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 8 April, 2021
  • Review for ProtonMail Encryption Status by Morgan Larosa

    The first review for Dan's first Thunderbird plugin gives it... five stars! Hurrah!

    Read more (108 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 16 February, 2021
  • Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back

    As they bring back the youtube-dl repository, GitHub announce a new set of standards by which they'll assess DMCA claims. Dan approves, and explains why.

    Read more (433 words)

    • Repost
    • 1 comment
    • posted 17 November, 2020
  • Encrypted email identified in Thunderbird having gone through ProtonMail Bridge

    Displaying ProtonMail Encryption Status in Thunderbird

    Dan releases his first Thunderbird plugin, for improving integration with ProtonMail Bridge.

    Read more (333 words)

    • Article
    • 5 comments
    • posted 6 October, 2020
  • Syncthing interface via Synctrayzor on Windows, showing Dan's syncs.

    Syncthing

    This month, Dan's in love with Syncthing, software that keeps his household's data where it needs to be.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (779 words)

    • Article
    • 3 comments
    • posted 1 August, 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
  • Map of Kidlington's roads

    City Roads

    City Roads, by Andrei Kashcha, is an open source project for extracting highway data from OpenStreetMap and rendering it as simplistic SVG files.

    Read more (87 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 31 January, 2020
  • Image representing post: Cheating Hangman

    Cheating Hangman

    Dan implements "Cheating Hangman", perhaps the cruellest hangman game you'll ever play.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (728 words)

    • Article
    • 21 comments
    • posted 26 September, 2019
  • Screen showing: "Dan will be gone in 153 hours, 54 minutes, 38 seconds."

    Counting Down

    I wasn't sure that my whiteboard at the Bodleian, which reminds my co-workers exactly how many days I've got left in the office, was attracting as much attention as it needed to. If I don't know what my colleagues don't know about how I do my job, I can't write it into my handover notes.

    So โ€ฆ

    Read more (232 words)

    • Article
    • 2 comments
    • posted 3 September, 2019
  • LABS comic adapted to show The Robot literally "feeding" RSS

    LABS Comic RSS Archive

    For the benefit of anybody wanting to read LABS comic from the beginning in their RSS reader, Dan writes a tool to facilitate that.

    Read more (175 words)

    • Article
    • 8 comments
    • posted 25 July, 2019
  • Hammer Logo

    nonstophammerti.me

    now a #PWA
    now available on #dat
    now open source (#GPL)
    still as pointless as ever

    More: danq.me/2019/04/03/nonstophammertime

    Read more (22 words)

    • Note
    • 1 comment
    • posted 3 April, 2019
  • Hammer Logo

    Non Stop Hammer Ti.me

    Dan launches NonStopHammerTi.me, the latest pointless thing he's put on the Web.

    Read more (131 words)

    • Article
    • 3 comments
    • posted 3 April, 2019
  • Bodleian 2018 digital advent calendar

    Bodleian Advent Calendar

    This year's digital advent calendar from the Bodleian is fabulous. And you can have one just like it.

    Read more (370 words)

    • Article
    • 40 comments
    • posted 5 December, 2018

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