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🆕 [Article] Run your own WireGuard VPN
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/18/run-your-own-wireguard-vpn/

I stopped paying for VPN services a decade ago and I haven't looked back. When I 'need' a VPN service, I just spin one up on cheap VM services, and then I throw it away when I'm
February 18, 2026 at 3:32 PM
🆕 [Note]
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/17/28280/

While cleaning up/assessing damage following our house flood, I finally found a lost digital stylus I’ve been looking for for a couple of months. Unfortunately it’s been sat under the water line so I don’t know yet if it survived. But it’s FOUND,...
February 17, 2026 at 9:59 AM
🆕 [Article] F-Day plus 3
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/16/f-day-plus-3/

It's only been three days since we had to evacuate our rapidly-flooding house. Here's some horror pics.
February 16, 2026 at 9:33 AM
🆕 [Note] Normal life
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/15/normal-life/

I want normal life back now, please.I appreciate that it’s only 40-ish hours since my house flooded and we had to move out. But with all the stress and activity that’s necessarily followed, it feels like it’s been so much lo
February 15, 2026 at 7:52 AM
🆕 The calm after the storm
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/14/the-calm-after-the-storm/

This morning, from my Premier Inn window, the skies are clear. I could almost forget that, just 4 miles away, my house is full of water.Today may well be a day of waders and damage assessment, conversations with
February 14, 2026 at 7:43 AM
🆕 [Note] Flood
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/13/flood/

My house is under water. Well, fuck. ×
February 13, 2026 at 5:29 PM
🆕 [Note] RIP James Van Der Beek
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/12/rip-james-van-der-beek/

James van der Beek died this week of bowel cancer; he was only a couple of years older than I am. I guess I'm at that point of my life where unexpectedly-early celebrity deaths might start being "ar
February 12, 2026 at 3:25 PM
🆕 [Repost] Integration contemplation
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/11/integration-contemplation/

What fragments you? What defragments you? How are you balancing both?
February 11, 2026 at 10:10 PM
🆕 [Repost] Rebels in the Sky
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/10/rebels-in-the-sky/

I feel like I'm reading a lot about SSH lately and how it can be used for exotic and unusual tasks. Tarpitting's fun, of course, but really what inspires me is all these dinky projects like ssh tiny.christm
February 10, 2026 at 5:41 PM
🆕 [Repost] Curious Cones
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/09/curious-cones/

Curious Cones is a catalogue of traffic cones in unusual places. How wonderful and weird our World Wide Web is, that such a thing can exist.
February 9, 2026 at 4:31 PM
🆕 [Note] Syncthing on Unraid: repairing malformed database disk image
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/09/syncthing-on-unraid-repairing-malformed-database-disk-image/

Mostly as a note to myself, but here's what to do if you're running linuxserver/syncthing via Docker on Unraid and it keeps
February 9, 2026 at 11:35 AM
🆕 [Note] Methuselah
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/08/methuselah/

My partner and her husband (my metamour) have a tradition that every 5th wedding anniversary they get the “next size up” of champagne bottle.This meant that on yesterday, when we celebrated their 15th, we needed to get through a
February 8, 2026 at 9:31 PM
🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC8X84J Crawley to Minster Loop – #1 Acrux
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/07/dan-q-found-gc8x84j-crawley-to-minster-loop-1-acrux/

This checkin to GC8X84J Crawley to Minster Loop - #1 Acrux reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. One last ca
February 7, 2026 at 3:47 PM
🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC7YHDV One with the tree
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/07/dan-q-found-gc7yhdv-one-with-the-tree/

This checkin to GC7YHDV One with the tree reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF in the third host I tried. SL. TFTC!
February 7, 2026 at 3:47 PM
🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC8X88R Crawley to Minster Loop – #12 Zosma
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/07/dan-q-found-gc8x88r-crawley-to-minster-loop-12-zosma/

This checkin to GC8X88R Crawley to Minster Loop - #12 Zosma reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Walking
February 7, 2026 at 3:47 PM
🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q did not find GC8X888 Crawley to Minster Loop – #11 Wasat
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/07/dan-q-did-not-find-gc8x888-crawley-to-minster-loop-11-wasat/

This checkin to GC8X888 Crawley to Minster Loop - #11 Wasat reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache
February 7, 2026 at 3:47 PM
🆕 [Article] LGBT+ History Month
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/07/lgbt-history-month/

Here in the UK we celebrate LGBT+ History Month in February. This year, I'd encourage you to look at the history of queer rights in the UK, and use it to celebrate what we've achieved so far... but more
February 7, 2026 at 11:09 AM
🆕 [Repost] Why there’s no European Google?
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/06/why-theres-no-european-google/

Lionel Dricot explains why the big tech companies are mostly American, not European (and why that's a good thing). It's a cultural difference that also results in Europeans being
February 6, 2026 at 10:46 AM
🆕 [Article] Reducing Phantom Obligation in FreshRSS
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/06/phantom-obligation-vs-freshrss/

Terry Godier's fantastic article last week introduced us to the term 'phantom obligation' and reiterated something I've been saying for years: that 'RSS ze
February 6, 2026 at 9:48 AM
🆕 [Note] Dan Q on itch.io
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/05/dan-q-on-itch-io/

I've had my itch.io account for about six years; I think I first created it to buy a copy of We Are But Worms: A One Word RPG. I've since made several purchases, donations, reviews, and comments, but never real
February 5, 2026 at 2:29 PM
🆕 [Repost] Introduction to the new HTML element ‘geolocation’
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/05/introduction-to-the-new-html-element-geolocation/

Manuel Matuzović has done a nice write-up on HTML's new 'geolocation' element. It's not exactly what I'd have implemented,
February 5, 2026 at 5:52 AM
🆕 [Article] OpenBenches reaches Tenerife
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/04/openbenches-tenerife/

This weekend, I helped OpenBenches extend its reach to Tenerife, by finding and photographing a bench in the memorial garden for the Dan-Air Flight 1008 disaster. Almost-simultaneously, Terence Eden sh
February 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM
🆕 [Note] Daily Mail RSS that doesn’t suck
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/04/daily-mail-rss-that-doesnt-suck/

Off the back of my project to un-suckify BBC News’ RSS feeds (https://bbc-feeds.danq.dev) by removing non-news content and duplicate items, I received an email this week (addressing me
February 4, 2026 at 12:48 PM
🆕 [Article] Gamified… Pornography?
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/04/gamified-pornography/

When the Online Safety Act came into effect, I considered writing a blog post investigating exactly how difficult it made it to access Pornhub. But it turned out to be boringly easy (it's not NOW, of
February 4, 2026 at 10:07 AM
🆕 [Article] Postcard from San Diego
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/03/postcard-from-san-diego/

Another postcard for my collection; this time from an indieweb blogger who was previously JUST outside of my circle - Joe from ArtLung. There's something in this.
February 3, 2026 at 5:30 PM