[Note] 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. [...]
Dan Q
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[Note] Pied Wagtail and Coffee 🔗
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! [...]
[Article] Wikipedia @ 25: Cirrothauma Murrayi 🔗
Today, Wikipedia introduced me to a mysterious deep-dwelling octopus. So cool! [...]
[Note] 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 [...]
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It’s been too damn hot out, so Ruth, the kids, and I took refuge at the snow park of an indoor ski centre! [...]
[Note] Wikipedia @ 25: Milices Patriotiques 🔗
My random Wikipedia article of the day was Milices Patriotiques, who were a 22,000-strong communist group and part of the Belgian resistance in the Se [...]
[Article] A Selfhosted Static Site Editor 🔗
Inspired by the way that Nekoweb's editor 'Nekode' works, I came up with a low-effort way to let my eldest get started with HTML and CSS editing, righ [...]
[Note] Roman Bingo 🔗
If the Romans played bingo, do you think the callers would have used 'bingo lingo'? - Legs two - Growing up the wall, four - Seagull in flight, f [...]
[Note] Wikipedia @ 25: Jim Marshall 🔗
Today's random Wikipedia article was Jim Marshall (photographer). I enjoyed reading about him and even looked up some of the many photographs that he [...]
[Article] F-Day plus 97 🔗
It's been 97 days now since we were flooded-out of our home, and repair and rebuild work hasn't really even begun. But it's getting closer, and I'm lo [...]
[Article] Wikipedia @ 25: Yousuf Karsh 🔗
Wikipedia is 25 years old this year, and in celebration of that I found my way via a Mercurial crater to the article about Yousuf Karsh, one of the mo [...]
[Repost] Bloomscrolling & Agentic Intelligence 🔗
Aquarion's written about using agentic intelligence and the role of LLMs in various tasks. The conclusion's pretty solid, and I agree with it 90%+. [...]
[Article] Wikipedia @ 25: Necker Island 🔗
Today, thanks to Wikipedia, I learned a lot about a miniscule Hawaiian island with an interesting cultural and archaeological history... after I found [...]
[Article] Wikipedia @ 25: Lake Baikal 🔗
Today's random Wikipedia article was about a kind of seal that lives only in Lake Baikal in Siberia, which turns out to be a really, really big lake. [...]
[Note] Wikipedia @ 25: The Bugler of Algiers 🔗
Today's random Wikipedia article, which didn't make it into a full blog post or podcast episode like a few earlier ones did, was The Bugler of Algiers [...]
[Note] Rubberdogging 🔗
Rubberdogging, verb: attempting to invent a solution to a technical problem by explaining it out loud to a pet. From "rubberducking", the practice of [...]
[Article] Wikipedia @ 25: Yo-Yo 🔗
This year is Wikipedia's 25th birthday, and as part of the celebrations I learned who Marcus Koh is... but that wasn't remotely as interesting as lear [...]
[Note] Wikipedia @ 25: Presto Card 🔗
The Presto Card is Toronto and the surrounding area's equivalent of London's Oyster Card. I enjoyed learning about it, but I don't think it justifies [...]
[Article] Built In Obsolescence 🔗
Pagan Wanderer Lu's released a cover album of his own music, where the cover artist is... AI. Some of the songs have come out quite well, and it gives [...]
[Article] Wikipedia @ 25: Rail transport in Indonesia 🔗
Wikipedia is celebrating its 25th birthday, and today I'm celebrating by discovering what the Argo Wilis is, along with a dive into a rabbithole about [...]
[Repost] CSS or BS 🔗
Keith Cirkel's made a game where you have to identify if something is a CSS property or a convincing fake. How's your CSS knowledge? [...]
[Article] Wikipedia @ 25: Wesley Merritt 🔗
Wikipedia is celebrating its 25th birthday, and somehow as a result I ended up reading about Wesley Merritt, who was the shortest-lived Governor-Gener [...]
[Repost] The first glimmer 🔗
Zach of The One and I wrote earlier this year about 'glimmers', which he describes as the opposite of 'triggers'. I love both the word and its concept [...]
[Comic] Two Croissants 🔗
I woke up with this in my head and had to draw it. [...]
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This plant has sonehow managed to grow through the atrtoturf lawn of our temporary home! Life... uh... finds a way? [...]
[Note] Soccer Slash 🔗
Observation: Media franchises attract fandoms, and many get their fair share of character 'shipping (especially of the attractive characters). Socce [...]
[Note] Car Climate Control UI 🔗
Why, when I change the temperature on the thermostat of my Renault Zoe does it change the fan direction, too? Is this a UI affordance for people who w [...]
[Repost] Coding Is When We’re Least Productive 🔗
Jason Gorman shares a wonderful anecdote about a workday in which he wrote only three lines of code, but that he considers productive because he took [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GCBPAKM Grab a seat and Take in the View 🔗
Sat in the shade with my panting pupper and almost immediately spotted this clever cache container. A great location and an imaginative container! Def [...]