Author: Dan Q
Dan Q is a software engineer, a director of a voluntary organisation, a trainee counsellor, a keen geocacher, and an amateur magician. He lives with his partner and her husband in a polyamorous triad, and occasionally finds time to blog.
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How to Draw a Horse
Dan reshares a comic about... drawing horses? Is that it? Really?
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The last Soviet citizen: The cosmonaut who was left behind in space - Russia Beyond
Repost of the story of Sergei Krikalev, who was aboard Mir when the Soviet Union collapsed and found himself both stateless and weightless.
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Reducing motion with the picture element
A simple, elegant way to use an inline CSS media query to provide "prefers-reduced-motion" support on animated content.
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Goat LARP
Oh, I thought: it's LARPing but with goats: well, whatever floats your goat... but no, I was wrong.
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Elderflower season is here once again and the eldest and I are kicking off our elderflower cordial production line!
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Found GC6102Y Minecrafty 3 - Zombie
Found via quick diversion from my expedition to the 2019-05-27 51 -1 geohashpoint.
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Geohashing expedition 2019-05-27 51 -1
Dan takes a break from studying to cycle out to a hashpoint in South East Oxford.
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Caverna Do Dragão
Remember that 80s TV show Dungeons & Dragons? It turns out that Renault's target customer base in Brazil do, too.
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The man who made Einstein world-famous
A fascinating BBC News story about how astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington helped the world "discover" the genius of Albert Einstein.
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I Don't Watch YouTube (Like You Watch YouTube)
A recent YouTube video by Veritasium helped Dan understand some of the quirks of YouTube's algorithms. Why hadn't he understood them before? Because he uses YouTube in an unusual way...
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Going Critical
A fabulous and interactive exploration of network interactions. Treat as a longread (with some opportunities to play as you go along).
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Danny Daycare
This isn't how I behave when I'm out cycling with one of our little 'uns in tow. But sometimes, just sometimes, when I see a solid-looking jump...
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Cat Salesman (Sioux Falls Area Humane Society)
Our cats are ready to walk off the lot. Adopt! Adopt! Adopt!
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Accessibility Resources
Beverley Newing shares their hotlist of their favourite accessibility resources.
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Blowout
I spent a delightful couple-of-seconds between reading and "getting" this comic.