Tag: published on gemini
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Not the Isle of Man
Ruth and I celebrated our anniversary this week by going to the Isle of Man. Except we never got there and instead Ruth lost her job and I got sick.
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Short-Term Blogging
Next time you've got something to share or a personal project, why not start a blog?
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Werewolves and Wanderer
A single text-based adventure game I found in a book in the 1980s taught me more about programming than anything else I experienced in that decade.
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Mastodon Re-Introduction
Finally got around to rewriting my Mastodon introduction, now that my selfhosted server's got enough interconnection that people might actually see it!
If you're on the Fediverse and you're not already doing so, you can follow me at @dan@danq.me. Or follow my blog at @blog@danq.me. -
Local Expert
This week, I spoke to a school group about the history of The Devil's Quoits. Perhaps I should be more-willing to share what I've learned in-general, even in areas where I'm still learning?
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Making a Home of Each Other (The Eggs)
Lucy Bellwood shared the story of how her wife produced a breakfast dish they called The Eggs, and it's the first and only "here's a recipe, but first my life story" article I've ever loved.
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Have Fun with Missions, Visions, and Values
My team and I recently used a deck of Dixit cards to playfully work on refining our collective idea of our identity and our values. It turns out we're a D&D-like party of heroic adventurers!
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Travelling light
Lately, I've taken to "travelling light", and it feels carefree and liberating.
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Normal for Children
The natural state of a child is to assume that their upbringing, their family, and thier community is representative and normal, so we all end up growing up with learned "quirks" that we don't discover until they're challenged. How many do you still harbour?
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Nightmares & Noggins
I had a nightmare last night in which I was underprepared for an upcoming D&D session. Because I am underprepared, I guess, but mostly because I was ill and sleeping badly anyway!
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AI is lying to you
Despite how much of DanQ.me is tokenised by ChatGPT, it still outright lies when asked about it. Why is this, and what does it mean for our use of LLMs?
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Found GC5F425 Lovers Walk
This checkin to GC5F425 Lovers Walk reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My GPSr dropped me next to a far older bit of architecture than the one that hosts the cache, but found after a short search. I'm staying nearby as part of a charity hackathon for a nonprofit I'm …
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New Far Side in FreshRSS
In response to a recent comment, I've written a recipe for getting "new" Far Side content into FreshRSS too.
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Subscribing to Forward using FreshRSS's XPath Scraping
FreshRSS's XPath scraping continues to be a "killer feature": here's how I'm using it to follow webcomic Forward.
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Solving Jigidi... Again
The Jigidi jigsaw solver I wrote a year and a half ago stopped working, so I made another one (it's not as good).