🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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,...
🔗 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,...
🔗 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.
🔗 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.
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/11/integration-contemplation/
What fragments you? What defragments you? How are you balancing both?
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/02/11/integration-contemplation/
What fragments you? What defragments you? How are you balancing both?
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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.
🔗 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.
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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!
🔗 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!
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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,
🔗 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,
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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
🔗 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.
🔗 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.