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[Note: Slamiltee at the Lycaeum]

Went to a West End theatre wearing my “Slamilton” t-shirt.In this corridor, during the act break, a stranger spotted it and did a double-take.“Is that…? wait… that’s not Hamilton!”, they said.I seized my chance.“It’s Slamilton,” I replied. “You know: ‘Who slams […]
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m.danq.me
December 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
[Note: Boxing Day Breakfast]

Boxing Day breakfast (of champions (of leftovers)). ×
Read more: https://danq.me/2025/12/26/boxing-day-breakfast/

#note #breakfast #christmas #food #meat
Boxing Day Breakfast
danq.me
December 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
[from DanQ.me]

Unusually, we had no guests this Christmas Day. This meant that my usual level of overcatering went even further than normal.A side effect of this is that a certain little doggo was delighted and surprised by her Boxing Day breakfast of roast goose! ×
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m.danq.me
December 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
[Note from DanQ.me]

I asked the younger child to “help” me calculate how much Yorkshire pudding batter to make for this Christmas dinner. “Well,” he began, “I’m going to want FIVE Yorkshire puddings, soo…”×
Read more: https://danq.me/2025/12/25/27806/

#note #children #christmas #cooking #food […]
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m.danq.me
December 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
[Repost: Death to the shadow DOM!]

I usually agree with Chris Ferdinandi, but he and I aren't entirely in accord about the Shadow DOM. He thinks it's useless. But I think it's MOSTLY useless.
Read more: https://danq.me/2025/12/23/death-to-the-shadow-dom/

#repost #css #javascript #web […]
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m.danq.me
December 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
[Geocaching log from DanQ.me]

A quick and damp scramble from the footpath above brought my right to the cache. SL, TFTC. Container seal has perished and logbook pretty wet; signable, but only barely.
Read more: https://danq.me/2025/12/20/dan-q-found-gc3h1wg-goodfellas/

#checkin #cachelog […]
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m.danq.me
December 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
[Geocaching log from DanQ.me]

Came out for a walk with my Ruth and the kids. While Ruth sat on a rock and the kids went with their uncle up to explore a small cave above, I broke from the path to find this cache. QEF in the second host I looked at.
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m.danq.me
December 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
[Article: Actually, Yes! (that IS what my birth certificate says)]

There's a certain kind of person who, upon hearing my unusual name, immediately asks whether that's what's on my birth certificate (with an underlying implication that it's not my 'real' name, whatever that means, if it isn't) […]
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m.danq.me
December 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
[Article: For anyone who :has :not yet seen the magic of modern CSS]

CSS is all grown-up, and the combination of nested selectors, variables, :not, and :has unlocks a wealth of potential for interactivity and customisation without resorting to (the slower and brittler approach of) JavaScript […]
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m.danq.me
December 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
[Repost: Ideal Conditions Calculator]

Waiting for the ideal time to finally do that thing you've been procrastinating on? Greg's clever new micro-site will help you decide the perfect time to do it (and no, it doesn't necessarily just say "now!").
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m.danq.me
December 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
[: Duck shunning]

I’m not sure which of our children was last in this bath, but the configuration in which they’ve left their toys makes me feel as though I’m the subject of some kind of waterfowl-related shunning.Perhaps they finally got wind or my heretical opinions on the God of Ducks (may […]
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m.danq.me
December 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
[from DanQ.me]

A few pockets of the morning’s freezing fog still cling to the hedgerows as the dog and I set out on a chilly West Oxfordshire morning walk. ×
Read more: https://danq.me/2025/12/13/27761/

# #dog #dogs #oxford #walking #weather
Note #27761
danq.me
December 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
[Note from DanQ.me]

Obviously I wasn’t planning on going to the US anytime soon, but if I did… they might struggle with my visa application when I put every “email address I’ve used for the last 10 years” on, because I actively use a variety of catch-all domains/subdomains.I’ve probably missed […]
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m.danq.me
December 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
[Article: CSS Lightbox with Alt Text Viewer]

Off the back of my details/summary-based semantic HTML+CSS lightbox, I've come up with a way to add Mastodon-like 'show alt text' widgets in the same way, and I'll be applying both to images on my blog's new theme, in the New Year.
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m.danq.me
December 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
[Note: Free Deed Poll questions]

Since I relaunched freedeedpoll.org.uk three months ago (with new features) and made an explanatory demo video, the volume and kinds of questions I've been emailed has... become larger and more diverse.

I still get questions about childrens' names and […]
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m.danq.me
December 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
[Note: Minimalist Trees]

Not sure I’m a fan of these new ultra-minimalist Christmas trees. ×
Read more: https://danq.me/2025/12/07/minimalist-trees-2/

#note #christmas #funny #photo #photos #tree
Minimalist Trees
danq.me
December 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
[: BBC Sports News (without the crap)]

For the last few years I’ve been running a proxy of the BBC News RSS feeds (https://bbc-feeds.danq.dev) that strips out duplicate content, non-news content, and (optionally) sports news.This weekend, for the first time, somebody asked if it could produce […]
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m.danq.me
December 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
[Repost: Woodcraft Folk statement on the exclusion of trans children from Girlguiding]

Girlguiding UK recently opted not to modernise their articles, meaning that their interpretation of the Supreme Court's misguided decision necessarily excludes trans girls and young women from Girlguiding. So […]
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m.danq.me
December 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
[Note: Please Insert Dog]

We got our dog a Christmas jumper. My favourite thing about it is that its coat hanger contains instructions for use: “Please insert dog” 🤣 ×
Read more: https://danq.me/2025/12/03/please-insert-dog/

#note #christmas #clothes #dog #dogs #xmas
Please Insert Dog
danq.me
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
[Note: Chinese Domain Name Scam]

I find a lot of these "this company is tried to usurp your brand with Chinese domain name purchases" emails in my spam folder, corresponding to my (many) domains. They're a scam, of course: the scammer is trying to goad me into saying "No, please help protect my […]
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m.danq.me
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
[Repost: Dithering - Part 1]

I already understand how using a threshold map to perform dithering works... and yet I still appreciated this amazing visual explainer from Damar Berlari.
Read more: https://danq.me/2025/12/02/dithering-part-1/

#repost
Dithering – Part 1
danq.me
December 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
[Note: Trams Rights]

Fellow folks at the interest-intersection of "public transport" and "queer activism" (I know you're out there!): I had an idea for a t-shirt.

Do I print it? Or give up on graphic design and go back to backend programming where I belong?
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m.danq.me
December 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
[Repost: HTTP is not simple]

After discovering it through a Gemini newsgroup, I very much enjoyed Daniel Stenberg's (of cURL fame) explanation that contrary to what you might think, HTTP (even version 1) is not a 'simple' protocol, and is full of weird and knotty underspecified loose ends.
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m.danq.me
December 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
[Repost: How Online Privacy Has Been Championed by Dreamwidth]

Coyote's written some solid words about how well Dreamwidth are standing up for user privacy and liberty against an increasingly hostile and censorship-ridden environment.
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m.danq.me
November 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
[Note from DanQ.me]

Can it perhaps be time that we stop saying "ethical non-monogamy"?

Nobody feels the need to say "ethical monogamy"; monogamous folks are given the benefit of the doubt and assumed to be practicing a relationship ethically.

I feel like polyamory, open relationships […]
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m.danq.me
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM