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  • Screenshot showing a "perfect" Lighthouse score for danq.me, with the corner peeled-back to show fragments of WordPress PHP code behind.

    Making WordPress Fast (The Hard Way)

    Lots of guides explain how to improve WordPress performance easily. This guide is different. I'd like to share the hard ways in which you might squeeze even more speed out of your WordPress site.

    Read more - about 17 minutes (3993 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 4 November, 2023
  • Softcover bound copies of volumes 1 and 2 of Incredible Doom, on a wooden surface.

    Incredible Doom

    I just read a comic book full of early-Internet nostalgia that delighted me, and wanted to share it with you.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (583 words)

    • Article
    • posted 1 November, 2023
  • Computer-assisted photograph showing visible letters on a rolled scroll, with highlighting showing those that can be deciphered, forming a word.

    Reading Rolled Papyri

    Researchers using x-ray tomography have for the first time managed to read an entire word from one of the carbonised Herculaneum scrolls, and that's awesome.

    Read more (461 words)

    • Article
    • posted 13 October, 2023
  • Dan, wearing an "elf costume" Christmas jumper, looks into the camera while cuddling a French Bulldog. The pair are sitting on a beige sofa.

    Absence/Presents

    Unless you're a child, I won't be buying you a Christmas present. And you shouldn't feel like you have to get me one, either.

    Read more (429 words)

    • Article
    • posted 9 October, 2023
  • Thich white sandwich on a blue-and-white china plate, with the distinctive shape of an organge-coloured Monster Munch crisp poking out.

    Monster Munch Sandwich

    Experimenting with some unusual combinations in anticipation of International Crisp Sandwich Day. Today's is Roast Beef Monster Munch on Farmhouse White.

    Read more (36 words)

    • Note
    • posted 5 October, 2023
  • Screenshot from FoundryVTT, showing a party of three adventurers crossing a rickety bridge through a blood-red swamp, facing off against a handful of fiends coming the other way. A popup item card for a "Dragon Slayer Longsword" is visible, along with two 20-sided dice.

    Easy FoundryVTT Cloud Hosting

    People keep asking for a quick-and-easy guide to setting up a cloud hosted FoundryVTT server. So I wrote one.

    Read more - about 7 minutes (1661 words)

    • Article
    • posted 29 September, 2023
  • CapsulePress logo (WordPress-style circle containing a space rocket emblazoned with the astrological sign for Gemini) on a purple background.

    CapsulePress - Gemini / Spartan / Gopher to WordPress bridge

    My WordPress blog posts are accessible via Gemini, Spartan, and Gopher. And now I've open-sourced the code that makes it possible. I give you: CapsulePress!

    Read more (457 words)

    • Article
    • posted 10 September, 2023
  • Screenshot from a web-based RSS reader application, showing recent repost "Groundhog Day". The final line contains a link with the text "I ❀️ 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 from GMail showing "DKIM: 'PASS' with domain danq.link".

    Debian + DKIM for Dummies

    I migrated my email subscription list from Gandi's SMTP server to my own... for which I first needed to teach myself OpenDKIM. Here's what I learned.

    Read more - about 7 minutes (1444 words)

    • Article
    • posted 2 September, 2023
  • Phootgraph of a wall-mounted television screen. On the screen, comedian Peter Buckley Hill sits with his guitar on his lap in front of an audience: the "PBH's Free Fringe" logo is on the curtain behind him. On the left of the screen a series of WhatsApp messages appear, including one showing a photo of Dan holding a can of Old Speckled Hen beer.

    Watch Together with WhatsApp on the side

    For a Virtual Fringe Festival party, I hooked up OBS Studio and Owncast with WhatsApp Web on the side. Here's how I did it.

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1152 words)

    • Article
    • posted 27 August, 2023
  • Screenshot showing a photo of the board/puzzle game Labyrinth, captioned "Paul Labyrinth is the protagonist of the game Labyrinth".

    Paul Labyrinth

    An open-source program that combines WikiData with a random generator to come up with almost-invariably inaccurate but sometimes hilarious facts.

    Read more (51 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 24 August, 2023
  • Photograph showing a medium-sized geocache container with its contents laid-out around it: various pieces of swag for trade, plus a notebook.

    Are Geocache Logs Getting Shorter?

    Are geocaching log entries getting shorter? Let's extract a sample of 134,000 of them and make Excel cry. With graphs!

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1044 words)

    • Article
    • 2 comments
    • posted 24 August, 2023
  • Motivational poster showing a photograph from a Manchester street. A Pride flag banner is hanging from a post with the words "everybody welcome" at the top. Nearby, attached to the same post, a road sign has the words "except buses". The poster is captioned with the word "inclusivity" (in pride colours), and subcaptioned "the 'B' is not for Buses". The joke is that the 'B' in LGBTQ+ stands for 'bisexual' and not 'buses', although of course the real meaning of that street sign is to ban everybody from driving straight ahead except buses, so the joke isn't perfect.

    Inclusivity

    The 'B' is not for Buses.

    Read more (37 words)

    • Note
    • posted 24 August, 2023
  • 512kb.club

    Proud to say that danq.me is the newest site to be admitted into Kev Quirk's 512kb club. Let's keep the web lean!

    Read more (23 words)

    • Note
    • posted 2 August, 2023
  • A cardboard box labelled "RSS reader", out of which sunbeams emanate.

    RSS Zero isn't the path to RSS Joy

    There’s nothing special about reaching Inbox Zero in your feed reader.
    It’s not noble nor enlightened to get to the bottom of your β€œunread” list.
    Your πŸ‘ feed πŸ‘ reader πŸ‘ is πŸ‘ not πŸ‘ an πŸ‘ email πŸ‘ client. πŸ‘

    Read more - about 6 minutes (1365 words)

    • Article
    • 16 comments
    • posted 29 July, 2023

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