Found! Took a bit of a search, because I had looked at the hint image which shows several trees at the GZ that are no longer there, so I was left thinking I must be in the wrong place for a while! TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK! | Continue reading
My first "full" day at WordCamp Europe 2023 was busy and intense, but I loved networking and learning about WordPress history and security and what's worth knowing about design and typography. | Continue reading
Today was Contributor Day at my very first WordCamp. I hacked code for WP-CLI and met some awesome people. | Continue reading
What a great statue! Cache was very easy to find; despite its camo it was very visible as I walked along the adjacent path. Thanks for bringing me out of my way on my walk from my hotel to the conference I’m attending, and TFTC. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK! | Continue reading
QEF once I found the right hiding place! TFTC, and for the excuse to divert my morning walk this way. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK! | Continue reading
Walking from my hotel to the site of a conference I’m attending, this morning, I stopped to find this cache. It took an embarrassingly long time for me to spot this sneaky little container! Greetings from Oxford, UK, and TFTC! | Continue reading
Saw the notification when this cache appeared near my house, which would normally be the point at which a race was kicked off between me and Go Catch for the FTF, before he inevitably got there first! But this time around I was overseas when the listing went live and only found t … | Continue reading
My team and I recently used a deck of Dixit cards to playfully work on refining our collective idea of our identity and our values. It turns out we're a D&D-like party of heroic adventurers! | Continue reading
Well that was quite the adventure! The first wayoint is right across the road from where some work colleagues and I are staying for an “away week”. I decided to dash out during a break in the weather to try and solve this multi between meetings. But I was quickly confused because … | Continue reading
Took until the fourth hiding place before I found the cache. Out for a walk with work colleagues on the way to dinner. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK! | Continue reading
Lately, I've taken to "travelling light", and it feels carefree and liberating. | Continue reading
The natural state of a child is to assume that their upbringing, their family, and thier community is representative and normal, so we all end up growing up with learned "quirks" that we don't discover until they're challenged. How many do you still harbour? | Continue reading
Today I learned that the quiet, high-pitched neighing sound horses sometimes make is called "nickering". I learned this from a subtitle which read "[horse nickers]". 🤣 | Continue reading
I had a nightmare last night in which I was underprepared for an upcoming D&D session. Because I am underprepared, I guess, but mostly because I was ill and sleeping badly anyway! | Continue reading
Max props to the developer of puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth. Saved me a ton of work circumventing Cloudflare's bollocks while I was trying to get my own data as recorded by my smartwatch. | Continue reading
Somewhere, in another timeline, the P3P standard is alive and thriving and saving us from cookie/privacy popovers. | Continue reading
Despite how much of DanQ.me is tokenised by ChatGPT, it still outright lies when asked about it. Why is this, and what does it mean for our use of LLMs? | Continue reading
My GPSr dropped me next to a far older bit of architecture than the one that hosts the cache, but found after a short search. I’m staying nearby as part of a charity hackathon for a nonprofit I’m involved with, but came out for a walk and an explore while between other tasks. SL, … | Continue reading
In response to a recent comment, I've written a recipe for getting "new" Far Side content into FreshRSS too. | Continue reading
FreshRSS's XPath scraping continues to be a "killer feature": here's how I'm using it to follow webcomic Forward. | Continue reading
I bought Zach Weinersmith's Bea Wolf for my kids (9 and 6, the elder of them already a fan of Beowulf). It arrived today, but neither of them have had a chance to because I wouldn't put it down. My favourite bit is when Bea and her entourage arrive near Treeheart and the shield-b … | Continue reading
Kev Quirk commits to continuing NOT to edit his old blog posts. I'm in the same boat. | Continue reading
The Jigidi jigsaw solver I wrote a year and a half ago stopped working, so I made another one (it's not as good). | Continue reading
Frustrated that nobody on the Internet has solved my problem for me, here's my guide to configuring Listmonk on an Unraid server. | Continue reading
After a long hiatus, Codex has returned with a vlog about Satoru Iwata's history as a game developer. Nostalgic fun. | Continue reading
As the last person on Earth to discover radio.garden, I was disappointed to find that you can't access non-UK stations from within the UK. So I "fixed" it. | Continue reading
WPTavern reports that Automattic is to acquire Matthias Pfefferle's ActivityPub plugin for WordPress, and I couldn't be more excited! | Continue reading
The dog needed a walk, so we explored North Leigh Common in the dark and found a hashpoint. | Continue reading
@SecurityWriter shares a story about repurposing a backup tape management robot as a barkeep. | Continue reading
Need all the UK strike action in your calendar app? I just helped a coworker with that, and I'm happy to share the results with you. | Continue reading
At a work meetup a fortnight ago I presented a "flash talk" about how I've made WordPress into a CMS for Finger and Gopher as well as the web, and what I learned by doing so. | Continue reading
Haggis tacos? Tattie scone quesadillas? Bean chilli stovies? I'm convinced there's mileage in Scottish-Mexican fusion cuisine, and I want to persuade you too. | Continue reading
For the first time in years, perhaps, I had that "moment of forgotting my dad was dead" thing. | Continue reading
Found with the elder geokid plus my mother and sister while on a layover in Preston to break up our journey from Aviemore to Oxford. We’re getting to visit quite a few some circles this half term, both old and new plus some old-but-restored, many of which have earthcache or virtu … | Continue reading
Travelling down from Aviemore to Preston on a multi-stage journey back home to Oxfordshire, we stopped off at the visitor centre and took the tour of the wind farm. My 6 year old loves wind turbines and was really excited to see so many in one place and to get the opportunity to … | Continue reading
An easy find for the geokids, Ruth and I while out on a walk with the geokids from Ruth’s father’s house in Reagill. SL, TNLN, TFTC. | Continue reading
A quick find while exploring the city after spending a few days meeting work colleagues from around the globe. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK! TFTC/DFDC! | Continue reading
Saw the cache almost right away but had to stand around for a while pretending to read something on my phone while muggles passed by. SL, TFTC. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK. | Continue reading
The second spectacular cache I’ve found from this CO. Absolutely amazing. Coordinates got me close, but it was only when I started looking around that I spotted something that didn’t look quite right and found the cache. Amazing work, FP awarded. | Continue reading
Superb cache, my favourite in Vienna so far. Love the design; I might try to make one like this back in Oxfordshire, UK upon my return! FP awarded. Coordinates put me exactly where I needed to be. Fortunately I had exactly what I needed to retrieve the cache: it’s something I alw … | Continue reading
A quick and easy find while I stopped to tie my laces. TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK! | Continue reading
I've been in Vienna for a week to meet work colleagues, and today - our meetings at an end and still with a few hours before my plane leaves - I decided to come out and find some local geocaches.At the GZ there were lots of good hiding places so I reached over and around. In a fe … | Continue reading
I found my first Austrian geocache on a "bridge over a bridge" near the hotel where Automattic are this week having a meetup. | Continue reading
Damage to the top of the hiding place gave me a quick clue for this one, even though my GPSr was misbehaving. TFTC. | Continue reading
QEF while taking a leisurely walk from Shepherds Bush to Kew Bridge. The hint object helped a lot. Greetings from Oxfordshire. TFTC. | Continue reading
With reference to great leaders I've worked alongside, a look at what leadership skills I admire in others. | Continue reading
Finishing my morning walk where, perhaps, I should have started it with the first cache in this enjoyable series. Took a while for a good GPSr fix and I walked up and down the path a few times before spotting the container. But then - disaster - this replaced cache has a brand ne … | Continue reading
Distracted by the cattle eating their breakfast and the increasingly beautiful sunrise, almost forgot to look for this cache. Read the hint but still didn’t have a clue until I spotted something out-of-place in a field. Sure enough, it was the cache. Nice hide! TFTC. This expedit … | Continue reading