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  • World map showing the outer extent of the areas in which Dan has geocached/geohashed. A shaded polygon covers the UK (except the far North of Scotland), parts of California, Cape Town, and parts of Italy and Austria.

    My Geo*ing Limits

    Let's use some self-data-mining plus a convex hull algorithm to plot a convex polygon onto a map that optimally encircles the entire corpus of my successful geocaching/geohashing expeditions!

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    • Article
    • 10 comments
    • posted 4 April, 2024
  • Screenshot from a web-based RSS reader application, showing recent repost "Groundhog Day". The final line contains a link with the text "I โค๏ธ FreshRSS", but the red heart emoji seems to be enormous compared to the next adjacent to it.

    Stopping WordPress Emoji 'Images' in Feeds

    By default, WordPress's RSS feeds replace emoji with externally-hosted images of emoji. Let's see if we can turn that off.

    Read more (441 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 4 September, 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
  • 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.

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    • Article
    • 12 comments
    • posted 1 March, 2020
  • Writing A Calendar App In Rails Vs. PHP

    Some time ago, I wrote a web-based calendar application in PHP, one of my favourite programming languages. This tool would produce a HTML tabular calendar for a four week period, Monday to Sunday, in which the current date (or a user-specified date) fell in the second week (so you're looking at this week, last week, โ€ฆ

    Read more - about 4 minutes (737 words)

    • Article
    • 5 comments
    • posted 6 October, 2005
  • PHP 5 RC1

    Terribly geeky I know, but I find it awfully exciting: PHP 5 Release Candidate 1 was released today. PHP 5 can now be considered feature-complete, and mostly stable. If only the program I'm writing with it could be considered the same...

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    • Note
    • posted 19 March, 2004
  • Makes You Feel Stupid

    Don't you feel really stupid when you plan to go via somewhere on the way to somewhere else, and completely forget about it. I managed that this morning: I'd put some keys in to get cut at the hardware shop around the corner from where I live, gone and bought my lunch from Somerfield, then โ€ฆ

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    • Article
    • posted 13 June, 2003

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