Dan Q @danq.me · 22/06/2026🆕 [Repost] Setting the width of selects to the width of the selected option 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/22/setting-the-widt… Sometimes a new CSS feature comes along and I immediately "get it". Like: that's a cool new feature, I can 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 22/06/2026🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC9P505 Paddington Bear & friends (Leicester Square) 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/21/dan-q-found-gc9p… A morning meander around the local (mostly virtual) caches under the guise of checking the condition of the West End Live 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 21/06/2026🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GCB5KK7 Shakespeare Fountain 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/21/dan-q-found-gcb5… A morning meander around the local (mostly virtual) caches under the guise of checking the condition of the West End Live queue, while the rest of my group enjoyed a lie 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 21/06/2026🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GCBJ704 Seven Dials Sundial 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/21/dan-q-found-gcbj… Approaching from the West I was foiled by the glare of the rising sun in my efforts to claim this fascinating monument from afar and eventually had to walk all the way pas 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 21/06/2026🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC38EQ3 Underground 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/21/dan-q-found-gc38… Initially thought I'd be able to find this one without the hint, but when I couldn't get fix to closer than 8m I took a peep at it and was instantly aware of where to search. So 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 21/06/2026🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC240NQ West End 1 – The Beatles 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/21/dan-q-found-gc24… Stood around for a bit reading about David Bowie while I waited for the waitstaff -on their pre-work fag break down the alleyway - stopped their muggling and wen 010
Dan Q @danq.me · 21/06/2026🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC5E4E Catastrophe, Calamity, Cataclysm Part 4 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/21/dan-q-found-gc5e… Can't do the physical today, but scooping a pic with the virtual during a morning walk around the neighbourhood. 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 21/06/2026🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GCAJJCJ Piccadilly Circus (Virtual Reward 4.0) ツ 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/21/dan-q-found-gcaj… After nine hours on my feet yesterday queuing for and then attending the first day of West End Live in Trafalgar Square, 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 20/06/2026🆕 [Note] Bus LAN 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/20/bus-lan Star network topologies are more common, but you can still occasionally find these… × 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 20/06/2026🆕 [Note] Theatreland Double Takes 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/20/theatreland-doub… Hanging out in London’s theatreland, attracting double-takes (and a handful of thumbs-ups!) for my t-shirt… × 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 20/06/2026🆕 [Note] 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/20/29501 The hours of queuing pays off! Let’s go! × 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 20/06/2026🆕 [Note] West End Live queue 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/20/west-end-live-qu… Back of the queue for West End Live. It’s gonna be a long wait, but hopefully worth it! × 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 19/06/2026🆕 [Note] 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/19/29497 Off to London for a couple of days of musical theatre fun! Don’t wait up! × 010
Dan Q @danq.me · 18/06/2026🆕 [Note] F-Day plus 125 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/18/f-day-plus-125 125 days since our house flooded, and the damaged furniture fittings, floors, underfloors, and now inner walls have been torn out.Over a third of a year since we had to move out, I’m optimistic that perhaps, at last, recon 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 17/06/2026🆕 [Note] 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/17/29482 🎶 It starts with sausage, A hot dog in a bun. One simple sausage, Put some mustard on one…Is it just me, or are (sinner) Sir Pentious‘s colours reminiscent of a hot dog? × 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 16/06/2026🆕 [Note] The chair guardian 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/16/the-chair-guardi… I guess it’s sweet that the dog has decided that I’m not to leave my home office without her noticing. But when the naps right behind my wheelie chair I worry she’s going to get her paws run over! × 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 16/06/2026🆕 [Repost] Elon Musk, Human Ponzi Scheme 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/16/elon-musk-human-… With thanks to Mark Palko for sharing: this seems like a spot-on observation of Musk's career. Wouldn't it be nice if the world's first trillionaire also happened to be the world 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 15/06/2026🆕 [Repost] Ad Infinitum 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/15/ad-infinitum An excellent article by Matthias Ott describes Google's promised AI-first search experience, which dispenses with search results entirely and just uses an LLM (plus sponsored content seamlessly woven in), keeping you enti 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 15/06/2026🆕 [Repost] New social media restrictions 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/15/new-social-media… Despite being parody, diamond geezer's new age-gating - which e.g. asks for personal information but, obviously, doesn't actually block access to the site - somehow perfectly straddl 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 13/06/2026🆕 [Note] Tango Two 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/13/tango-two Making another attempt at learning to tango, this time at a more-beginner, more-local class. It’s still super hard but he makes me question whether I even know how to walk, let alone dance, but I love it so much! 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 12/06/2026🆕 [Article] My Polyamory is Boring 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/12/polyamory-is-bor… A conversation with another openly-polyamorous blogger led us to ask one another why we don't write about our relationship structure more-often. In my case, the answer is simple: my relationships are bor 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 11/06/2026🆕 [Note] Remembering the 90s Web 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/11/remembering-the-… This morning I had a lovely meeting with Andreas Marakis, who's researching the sociological impact of the Web of the 1990s on people who experienced it first-hand. I'm seeing more and more intere 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 10/06/2026🆕 [Reply] Is midnight in the middle of the night? 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/10/is-midnight-in-t… Niki wondered whether "midnight" is actually the middle of the night and discovered that it pretty much is. I explain that this is because he's in Berlin, whic 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 09/06/2026🆕 [Repost] I want my friends to have blogs too 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/09/i-want-my-friend… Daniel loves blogs and loves blogging, but wishes that more of the people in his 'real life' blogged too. I get it, Daniel! 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 09/06/2026🆕 [Note] F-Day plus 115 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/08/f-day-plus-115 115 days since our house flood, the beginnings of the very first of the remedial works are taking place. Today, builders will drill through and lift part of a cracked poured-concrete foundation to work out what's beneat 010
Dan Q @danq.me · 09/06/2026🆕 [Article] F-Day plus 113 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/06/f-day-plus-113 It's been 113 days since my house flooded and it's almost time for repair work to start! But first, I've got some repair work of my own to do: to a desk that needs moving and to a laptop that's misbehaving. 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 09/06/2026🆕 [Repost] AI is not a person 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/09/ai-is-not-a-pers… And it's important to remember that. Chris Ferdinandi has some direct words, and I expand upon them. 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 09/06/2026🆕 [Article] I Hate (Most) Keyboard ‘Fn’ Keys 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/09/fn-keys Sometimes keyboards come with a 'Fn' key that allows some of their context-sensitive keys to do particular general-purpose functions. Sometimes these are implemented in careful, considerate and co 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 08/06/2026🆕 [Note] F-Day plus 109 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/08/f-day-plus-109 109 days since our house flood, the beginnings of the very first of the remedial works are taking place. Today, builders will drill through and lift part of a cracked poured-concrete foundation to work out what’s beneath a 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 07/06/2026🆕 [Article] So Unbelievable it Sounds Like you Googled It 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/07/sounds-like-you-… DeGoogling is so... 2010s. Let's make the 2020s the decade where we redefine Google as a verb. In the age of AI-first search, "to Google" now ought to give a nod t 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 07/06/2026🆕 [Note] Yodawg 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/07/yodawg "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm." 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 06/06/2026🆕 [Article] F-Day plus 107 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/06/f-day-plus-107 It's been 107 days since my house flooded and it's almost time for repair work to start! But first, I've got some repair work of my own to do: to a desk that needs moving and to a laptop that's misbehaving. 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 05/06/2026🆕 [Note] The improvement to code quality that drops the coverage metric 40%! 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/05/40pc-coverage-dr… Working with an old codebase today, I moved a method from one file to another. CI was happy.Then I realised the method didn’t have any automated tests, so I wrote on 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 03/06/2026🆕 [Note] Optional AUP 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/03/optional-aup Got to say, it’s very sporting of AWS to make compliance with their terms of service and acceptable use policy optional. × 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 02/06/2026🆕 [Repost] Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/02/hackers-simply-a… Meta decided to replace a lot of their tech support with a chat 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 01/06/2026🆕 [Note] Sending a test email from WordPress/ClassicPress using WP-CLI 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/01/sending-a-test-e… Note to self: ignore all the search results that say to install a plugin. The absolute fastest way to send a test email from a Wor 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 01/06/2026🆕 [Article] The “ChangeNames.co.uk” Scam 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/01/changenames-scam Today, somebody who's running a scammy personal information collection campaign hidden beneath the veneer of a buggy free deed poll service that competes with my better, ethical free deed poll ser 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 31/05/2026🆕 [Article] Converting ISO Country Codes to Flag Emojis 🔗 danq.me/2026/05/31/iso-country-code… Did you know that there's a simple formula you can use to convert from an ISO two-letter country code to the emoji of the flag of that country. I've made an interactive t 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 31/05/2026🆕 [Note] Ground White Pepper 🔗 danq.me/2026/05/31/ground-white-pep… There are many things I don’t like about the kitchen in the Chicory House where we’re living medium-term following our house flood.But I like the fact that the integrated spice rack makes it much easier to see 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 30/05/2026🆕 [Note] Wikipedia @ 25: Surface plasmon resonance 🔗 danq.me/2026/05/30/wp25-surface-pla… I think I'm probably done with my blog (and podcast) series of Wikpedia @ 25 posts. It's been a surprising amount of work. But don't think I've stopped hitting R 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 29/05/2026🆕 [Repost] Disabling AI in WordPress 7.0 🔗 danq.me/2026/05/29/disabling-ai-in-… Nicholas A. Ferrell explains how to tell WordPress 7.0 to keep its AI features disabled, and I share my alternative approach: use a fork - ClassicPress - that doesn't include the AI featu 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 28/05/2026🆕 [Repost] Bringing Three Rings volunteers together: doing remote-first in person, and what to eat in a crisis 🔗 danq.me/2026/05/28/bringing-three-r… JTA wrote a LinkedIn post about Three Rings, its remot 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 28/05/2026🆕 [Repost] Is AI Profitable Yet? 🔗 danq.me/2026/05/28/is-ai-profitable… No surprises from this website, but it's interesting/staggering to see quite how LARGE the disparity between spending and profit is for some of these companies. 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 27/05/2026🆕 [Article] Wikipedia @ 25: Carl Person 🔗 danq.me/2026/05/27/wp25-carl-person As I continue my 25-consecutive-days-of-Wikipedia, today's random article of the day was Carl Person, a lawyer with an interesting history. 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 26/05/2026🆕 [Note] Twenty Inches 🔗 danq.me/2026/05/26/twenty-inches I let the elder kid choose her lunch. She chose a pizza so huge that each slice is larger than her entire face. Needless to say, she needed a little help with it! × 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 25/05/2026🆕 [Note] My Biggest Fan 🔗 danq.me/2026/05/25/my-biggest-fan As both the UK’s heatwave and my up-and-down England road trip continue, I think I’ve finally found a fan big enough to cool me off. × 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 25/05/2026🆕 [Note] Pied Wagtail and Coffee 🔗 danq.me/2026/05/25/pied-wagtail-and… Drinking a coffee while editing a podcast episode in the beautiful Ullswater valley, and this lovely little pied wagtail came by to say good morning! × 010
Dan Q @danq.me · 25/05/2026🆕 [Article] Wikipedia @ 25: Cirrothauma Murrayi 🔗 danq.me/2026/05/25/wp25-cirrothauma… Today, Wikipedia introduced me to a mysterious deep-dwelling octopus. So cool! 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 24/05/2026🆕 [Note] Self-clear area 🔗 danq.me/2026/05/24/self-clear-area I spent a while failing to interpret this sign. It seemed to be saying that if you didn’t clear your tray… then you’d get ketchup poured on your wrist? It turns out there’s a baby bottle warming station on the othe 000
Dan Q @danq.me · 24/05/2026🆕 [Note] 🔗 danq.me/2026/05/24/29298 It’s been too damn hot out, so Ruth, the kids, and I took refuge at the snow park of an indoor ski centre! × 000
