It's a bit hard to perform close-up magic to an audience 40 metres deep, so I pre-recorded my favourite card trick! Then I talked over it, explaining to colleagues from my division why it's my favourite bit of slight-of-hand, and what great magic tricks have…

From safely outside of its predicted path, just around the Yucatan coast, Hurricane Milton seems like a forboding and distant monster. A growing threat whose path will thankfully take it away, not towards, me. My heart goes out to the people on the other…

Goodbye, Tulum! You were delightful, if very hot. It's time for me to hear back to the UK.

As I come to the end of a week in Mexico with ~400 of my the smartest, friendliest, open-source-loving geeks I could wish to know, I come to realise that Automattic's meetups are just... magical.

I'm back home from Mexico (and feeling a little worse for wear), where this young lady wanted to let me know that I was sorely missed.

Playing simultaneous games against both children might have been less challenging if they hadn't both kept trying to start fights with one another at the same time! 😂

I was listening to the bats flying silently above me while I watched the Perseids, the other month. When was the last time I was actually capable of hearing their echolocation? I simply can't remember, because it didn't feel significant at the time.

This evening I pushed against my illness-addled brain to try to sit in on the fortnightly Zoom call with the Three Rings dev team. Unfortunately it seems like the primary symptom of my cold is an inability to string words together. At one point, I apologised…

eBay UK have changed their terms to (a) remove seller fees for most private sellers, but (b) instead of paying-out immediately, payouts are four times a year (or on-demand) [ src: https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/selling/spendable-funds/ebay-balance?id=5305 ]…

You know that you REALLY needed that coffee when you: 1. get out a mug, 2. turn on the coffee machine, 3. load the dishwasher while you wait for the coffee machine to warm up, 4. can't find your mug any more, oh shit it's in the dishwasher 🤦

As Google invest in next-generation nuclear generation to provide electricity to their energy-hungry AI datacentres, so they can keep providing shit answers to everyday questions, I'm optimistic that maybe after the LLM fad fizzles out we'll be left with…

And while we're talking about AI. It took a disproportionate about of time to find the right (tiny) link, but eventually I managed to opt-out of my content being used to train Facebook's AI. They don't make it easy, do they?

Happy International Pronouns Day! 🥳 https://pronouns.org/day I use he/him pronouns.

✅ Inbox Zero ✅ Slack Notification Zero ✅ Assigned PR Reviews Zero ✅ Owned PRs... one, but it's approved and just waiting for the right moment to merge That's got the be the first time in... literally years... that I've ended a workday so "clean". Feels amazing.…

I've extended CapsulePress to support Nex, an ultra-lightweight smolweb protocol from the Nightfall City community.

@BBC_News_Labs@social.bbc continue to keep adding more and more non-news content to the BBC News RSS feed (like this ad for the iPlayer app!), so I've once again had to update my script ( https://danq.me/bbc-news-without-the-crap ) to "fix" the feed so that…

Kicking off day #1 of my three-month sabbatical from work at a hotel in Reading, at a meeting with fellow Three Rings volunteers to discuss our organisational culture and values.

Day #2 of my sabbatical had a morning in which I've mostly been roped into some charity-related digital forensics... until I got distracted by dndle.app, which apparently I accidentally broke yesterday! Move Fast and Fix Things!

Not for the first time, our eldest child has drawn me a network diagram. It's cute, but I've outright refused to name one of the new servers I'm provisioning after our dog. Here's why...

My sabbatical might give me more time for geohashing, so long as the numbers come up right. So let's take an expedition up Harcourt Hill with the dog (plus video)...