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🆕 [Repost] gradient.horse
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/18/gradient-horse/

Michail Rybakov's gradient.horse might be the second most-amusing use of a .horse domain name I've yet seen. Draw a horse and let it run wild and free with its friends in the gradient plains of your browser window!
January 18, 2026 at 8:45 PM
🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC8YPVJ Finn1
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/17/dan-q-found-gc8ypvj-finn1/

On the morning of the Three RIngs Christmas party, I took an early walk to a nearby geocache, just outside the area where the roads are closed for the Warwick leg of HS2's construction.
January 17, 2026 at 7:52 AM
🆕 [Note] 67 Bananas
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/16/67-bananas/

I think my “six seven”-obsessed younger child was in the kitchen with a biro earlier. How do I know, you ask? ×
January 16, 2026 at 10:17 PM
🆕 [Note] I got a CCC postcard!
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/16/i-got-a-ccc-postcard/

Well my day, week, and year (which has been off to a slightly ropey start) got a whole heap better today when I received a postcard from August & Sappho, sent from 39c3 on a CCC postcard... with a CCC stamp!
January 16, 2026 at 1:58 PM
🆕 [Repost] Gay sheep – what the FAQ?!
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/16/gay-sheep-what-the-faq/

About 1 in 12 rams (and a similar proportion of ewes) show a strong preference for other sheep of their same sex. To save them from being destroyed by breeders, this German farm is rescuing them and a
January 16, 2026 at 7:56 AM
🆕 [Repost] 88×31 Button Creator
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/15/88x31-button-creator/

Dan of ritual.sh has produced an absolutely epic 88×31 button generator; well worth playing with if you're into that kind of thing.
January 15, 2026 at 5:16 PM
🆕 [Article] Nostalgia, Music, and Computers
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/15/nostalgia-music-and-computers/

It turns out that I get nostalgic about technology in the same way as I get nostalgic about music. Here's some things that take me right back to being nine, eleven, thirteen and fiftee
January 15, 2026 at 1:49 PM
🆕 [Note] EV Battery Low
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/14/ev-battery-low/

Tonight I learned that when my electric car gets down to 5% battery, it sounds an alarm. And that when it gets down to 4% battery, it sounds a louder alarm. And that when it gets down to 3% battery, it engages 'limited
January 14, 2026 at 8:46 PM
🆕 [Note]
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/14/27940/

Bitterly cold and starkly beautiful, this morning: West Oxfordshire is blanketed in an impenetrably thick freezing fog.It’s quite pretty, though I’m regretting not bringing my gloves out with me! ×
January 14, 2026 at 9:01 AM
🆕 [Article] Chain Words
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/13/chain-words/

I've been enjoying playing Chain Words, from eclectech, intermittently, since it came out in November. If you've not given it a go yet, and you like a word game that's a bit different, you should try it!
January 13, 2026 at 1:47 PM
🆕 [Article] Imajica by Clive Barker
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/13/imajica-by-clive-barker/

I recently finished reading Clive Barker's Imajica for what I think is the fourth time. It remains one of my favourite fantasy novels, and I'd love to tell you why.
January 13, 2026 at 10:31 AM
🆕 [Note]
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/11/toilets-viewing-area/

Not kink-shaming anyone, but I’m not sure I want to go to the ‘toilets viewing area’. ×
January 11, 2026 at 2:31 PM
🆕 [Note]
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/10/27906/

The younger kids' taekwondo school put on a free 'new years workout' class this morning. It was pretty awesome. My watch says my heart rate averaged 146bpm, peaking at 169bpm. It's possible I'm not as fit as I used to be. �
January 10, 2026 at 5:31 PM
🆕 [Video] Why I Am So Tired [Video]
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/09/why-i-am-so-tired-video/

A video version of my recent joke about why I'm so tired, which was also made available in article and podcast formats.
January 9, 2026 at 3:24 PM
🆕 [Article] Why I Am So Tired
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/09/why-i-am-so-tired/

After dusting off and modernising a joke I first read in a chain email from 1996, I can tell you conclusively that the reason that I'm tired is because I'm overworked.
January 9, 2026 at 3:24 PM
🆕 [Note] Bee
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/08/bee-2/

As part of my efforts to reclaim the living room from the children, I'm building a new gaming PC for the playroom. She's called Bee, and - thanks to the absolute insanity that is The Tower 300 case from Thermaltake - she's one of
January 8, 2026 at 8:31 AM
🆕 [Article] Visualising Forged In The Dark probabilities
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/07/probabilities-in-the-dark/

Blades in the Dark (and other Forged In The Dark-based games) use a highest-value-from-D6-dice-pool mechanic to resolve actions. I was looking for a visualisation of the resulting
January 7, 2026 at 11:09 AM
🆕 [Repost] A small collection of text-only websites
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/06/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites/

Terence Eden's maintaining a list of websites that are presented as, or are wholly or partially available via, plain text. Obviously my own text/plain blog is among
January 6, 2026 at 1:00 PM
🆕 [Note] Tintern Abbey
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/05/tintern-abbey/

Tintern Abbey’s looking especially beautiful in the fresh snow, this morning. ×
January 5, 2026 at 10:31 AM
🆕 [Note] Invisible Dog
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/04/invisible-dog/

Our dog has decided that the perfect place to lie down at our holiday accommodation is… on a staircase whose carpet is the same colour as her!I’m grateful for her very-visible blep… or I’d have tripped over this camouf
January 4, 2026 at 12:46 PM
🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC47WME PYVW- Cuckoo Wood
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/04/dan-q-found-gc47wme-pyvw-cuckoo-wood/

I was in these woods anyway, seeking GC10N80 and figured I'd come hunt for this cache too. A quick find; my geosense spotted a candidate hiding place right from the main p
January 4, 2026 at 10:17 AM
🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC10N80 Wye Eye
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/04/dan-q-found-gc10n80-wye-eye/

This puzzle cache, undiscovered for 20 months, made for one of the most satisfying geocaching expeditions I've ever done.
January 4, 2026 at 10:05 AM
🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC39NPC Cleddon shoots and falls
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/04/dan-q-found-gc39npc-cleddon-shoots-and-falls/

Hiked over from Catbrook on the way to a cache up Pen Y Fan and stopped by these beautiful waterfalls on the way. So glad I did!
January 4, 2026 at 10:05 AM
🆕 [Repost] D&D 5e is not for everyone
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/03/dd-5e-is-not-for-everyone/

Kai Koehler reminds us that D&D 5e is far from the only TTRPG, with a tight dissection of its specific characteristics so that they can be compared to other, perhaps more roleplay-heavy, game
January 3, 2026 at 3:40 PM
🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC7P0AN A Fine Pair # 1089 ~ Parkhouse
🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/03/dan-q-found-gc7p0an-a-fine-pair-1089-parkhouse/

The geohound and I walked over from Catbrook this morning "the long way" - over the hill and woods, finding a couple of caches along the way -
January 3, 2026 at 10:05 AM