I'm Dan Q. I've spent the last 25+ years creating and writing on the Internet.
I work at Automattic and volunteer with Three Rings. I live with my partner, her husband, two kids and a dog. I can sometimes be found out geo*ing, cycling, or performing magic.
I believe in open source, open relationships, and opening doors to marginalised groups.
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Icebreakers - Heraldry and Compairs
For my team meetup, I developed a couple of icebreaker games - Heraldry and Compairs - and I'd love to share them with you, if you're interested! Read more →
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Water Science #2
For the second time, the kids and I had an outing to do some "citizen science" experiments on a local watercourse. Read more →
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Automattic Switch
Fire, my team at work, has been extinguished and I've been moved to Team Desire. I've struggled to find my feet, but I think I'm settling in now. Read more →
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Council Disenfranchisement
West Oxfordshire District Council seem to want to disenfranchise me by requiring that I bring photo ID to a polling station with a different name on it than the photo ID that they themselves issued. Read more →
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Reversing Sandwiches
Userscripts are awesome, and you should be using them. Let me rotate some sandwiches for you to demonstrate their versatility! Read more →
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My Geo*ing Limits
Let's use some self-data-mining plus a convex hull algorithm to plot a convex polygon onto a map that optimally encircles the entire corpus of my successful geocaching/geohashing expeditions! Read more →
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April Features!
The start of April's a perfect time for a "Spring refresh" of a personal website. This year, I'm enabling a handful of experimental new features; visit DanQ.me and you might randomly be selected to try one out! Read more →
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Quickly Solving JigsawExplorer Puzzles
A fellow jigsaw-hating geocacher, familiar with my work on Jigidi, challenged me to find a way to bypass JigsawExplorer too. Here's what I came up with... Read more →
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Oxford's Area Code at OGN 57
At next month's Oxford Geek Nights I'll be talking about why Oxford's telephone area code makes no sense... until it does! But that's not why you should attend: you should attend because of the five far more-talented speakers I'll be sharing the stage with! Read more →
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Found GC89T04 Japanse glazen dobbers
An easy find. Didn’t take nor leave any books, but briefly skimmed the Borland JBuilder 2 Getting Started guide, because it was familiar/nostalgic. Pretty sure I used this tool… about 25 years ago!× Read more →
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Found GC8R0FY SIX on the beach
An easy find. As a approached I thought that a couple cuddling here might be in my way, but they were just getting ready to leave as I arrived! SL (love the long thin logbook!), TFTC. Now to make my way back to the station!× Read more →
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Found GC79PX6 Galgenveld / Field of Gallows
Eww. Had to put my hand into two gross holes before finding the (correct) third gross hole I needed to put my hand into. Worth it in the end for a happy smiley face. Thanks for bringing me to this place and teaching me its history. TFTC!× Read more →
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Found GCAJGEA Welcome to Amsterdam! (Virtual Reward 4.0)
TFTC! I’m not carrying any tickets for UK transport, but I’ve got a (mildly defaced) British banknote and I found a tram (the number 13, which connected me to my hotel this week) and a ferry (which I then went and caught to go find some more caches!).×× Read more →
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Found GCAJHEN Amsterdam Greed / Hebzucht
Cash? Not carrying much of that. But my credit card sits at the front of my minimalist wallet and, as a bonus, shows my geocaching username (which is the same as my actual name) without showing the actual card number. TFTC!× Read more →
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Did not find GC5A7X0 Bicycle Parking
No luck here despite an extended search, the hint, and the spoiler image. Confident I’ve found the right host but no sign in the cache. I wonder if another geocacher is holding it right now, sitting somewhere nearby to sign the log? Or else it’s probably gone missing. 😢 Read more →
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Found GCAHANJ De Dolphijn
QEF once some nearby muggles moved along. TFTC.PS Logbook getting quite full, only space for about 20-30 more signatures. Read more →
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Found GCAB935 Bartolotti House
Easy to spot, but I had to wait a while to be able to stealthily retrieve the cache. TFTC! Read more →
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Found GC5K1KW Behind the Monument
Love the monument, delighted to see it. Took me a long, long time to find the cache though! Started by looking near the coordinates but couldn’t find anything likely to host the cache.Spotted a likely host by the waterside and, evert though the coordinates seemed off, gave a good search there before giving up.Then went […] Read more →
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Found GC80871 Amsterdam #9
After a lot of walking so far this morning I was glad of the opportunity to stop and take a rest nearby while I signed the log. TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK.× Read more →
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Found GCAFD8Q Klim OP
Hiding place is a bit damp and grimy but a bit of digging through leaf litter soon revealed the cache. The nearby climbing frame is epic: my kids would love it! Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK. TFTC.× Read more →
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Found GCAFY0Z Van Bossepad
QEF while out for a walk. Cache is in bad condition, pretty waterlogged and with its label falling apart. TFTC. Read more →
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Found GCAD0V7 HJKM Gifts and TB Hotel
Amazing geocache, FP awarded! I’ve been visiting Amsterdam for the last few days to meet up with work colleagues from around the world, but this morning I’m having a bit of an explore/geocaching expedition before I catch a train back to the UK. TNLN, SL, TFTC! Read more →
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Did not find GC3VCTT Blue Toolbox
Found some obvious hiding places that met the hint. Even found evidence that a geocacher had been here before me. But couldn’t find the cache today. 😢 Read more →
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Found GC4MDKN rijLes
As soon as I was in the vicinity I caught sight of the clever cache container. Log is sadly very wet and was hard to sign. TFTC! Read more →
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