Scatmania

I've been using Synergy for a long, long time. By the time I wrote about my admiration of its notification icon back in 2010 I'd already been using it for some years. But this long love affair ended this week when I made the switch to its competitor, Barrier.



If you've not come across it

https://danq.me/2021/10/20/barrier/

As you might know if you were paying close attention in Summer 2019, I run a "URL shortener" for my personal use. You may be familiar with public URL shorteners like TinyURL and Bit.ly: my personal URL shortener is basically the same thing, except that only I am able to make short-links with it.

https://danq.me/2021/10/05/yourls-rss/

Get lost
I got lost on the Web this week, but it was harder than I'd have liked.



There was a discussion this week in the Abnib WhatsApp group about whether a particular illustration of a farm was full of phallic imagery (it was). This left me wondering if anybody had ever tried to identify

https://danq.me/2021/09/02/get-lost-on-the-web/

tl;dr? Just want instructions on how to solve Jigidi puzzles really fast with the help of your browser's dev tools? Skip to that bit.
I don't enjoy jigsaw puzzles
I enjoy geocaching. I don't enjoy jigsaw puzzles. So mystery caches that require you to solve an online jigsaw puzzle in order to get

https://danq.me/2021/08/26/jigidi-solver/

As I mentioned last year, for several years I've collected pretty complete historic location data from GPSr devices I carry with me everywhere, which I collate in a personal μlogger server.

Going back further, I've got somewhat-spotty data going back a decade, thanks mostly to the fact that I

https://danq.me/2021/08/22/heatmaps/

For GC9EXXX Church Micro 14129...Sutton, a geocache I recently set up, I wanted to use a "pole topper" style cache. I've always felt slightly let down by finding yet another magnetic nano stuck inside a pipe, so I wanted to do something better. You can watch the video here or on YouTube, or scroll

https://danq.me/2021/08/17/perfect-fit-geocache/

We've missed out on or delayed a number of trips and holidays over the last year and a half for, you know, pandemic-related reasons. So this summer, in addition to our trip to Lichfield, we arranged a series of back-to-back expeditions.
1. Alton Towers
The first leg of our holiday saw us spend a

https://danq.me/2021/08/15/holiday-2021/

We took a family trip up to Lichfield this weekend. I don't know if I can give a "review" of a city-break as a whole, but if I can: I give you five stars, Lichfield.



Maybe it's just because we've none of us had a night away from The Green... pretty-much since we moved in, last year. But

https://danq.me/2021/07/19/lichfield/

I've written before about the trend in web development to take what the web gives you for free, throw it away, and then rebuild it in Javascript. The rebuilt version is invariably worse in many ways - less-accessible, higher-bandwidth, reduced features, more fragile, etc. - but it's more

https://danq.me/2021/07/06/higher-lower-datepicker/

My favourite thing about geese... is the etymologies of all the phrases relating to geese. There's so many, and they're all amazing. I started reading about one, then - silly goose that I am - found another, and another, and another...



For example:

Barnacle geese are so-called because

https://danq.me/2021/07/05/goose-language/