Dan, a white man with a blue ponytail and a goatee beard, poses with a peel in front of a blazing wood-fired pizza oven in a garden.
Yesterday saw the penultimate "meal together" of the #threeRings development team at this week's #volunteering / #hackathon retreat, so I decided to take a #cooking shifts to have a go with the big wood-fired brick #pizzaOven in the garden!
It went... pretty damn […]
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[Article: Wood-Fired]
This year's 3Camp venue had a wood-fired pizza oven, so I signed-up for a shift of cooking for my fellow volunteers and thoroughly enjoyed making and baking a monumental amount of dough.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/04/02/wood-fired/
#article #cookery #cooking #devcamp […]
[Note from DanQ.me]
There was no mixing bowl in the house large enough to make enough pizza dough to feed all of the Three Rings volunteers present at this year's 3Camp, so I just had to pour out all the ingredients onto the surface and work from there.
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Dan, a white man with a ponytail of blue hair and a goatee beard, uses his hands to gather a huge pile of flour on a marble worksurface in a spacious kitchen.
There was no mixing bowl in the house large enough to make enough pizza dough to feed all of the Three Rings volunteers present at this year's 3Camp, so I just had to pour out all the ingredients onto the surface and work from there.
#note #threeRings #volunteering […]
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[Geocaching log from DanQ.me]
I'm volunteering at the building right next door to this bridge, this week, working on software that helps charities... among them, Samaritans! So finding this thematic cache was a must-do for the younger geokid and I on our lunch break today. A quick and easy find […]
[Note from DanQ.me]
Some days, developing Three Rings is about being hunched over a keyboard alone in the middle of the night, swearing at Rubygem incompatibilities.But just ocassionally it’s about getting together in beautiful places with some of the most dedicated geeks I know… to swear about […]
A beautiful country house with a huge garden.
Some days, developing Three Rings is about being hunched over a keyboard alone in the middle of the night, swearing at Rubygem incompatibilities.
But just ocassionally it's about getting together in beautiful places with some of the most dedicated geeks I know... to […]
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[Note from DanQ.me]
Not even thanks to Daylight Saving but just because I felt energised and excited, I got up to watch the sunrise this morning… before starting work on a new Three Rings feature! ×
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/03/29/28632/
#note #morning #threeRings #volunteering
The sunrise as seen through the gates of a vineyard's courtyard.
Not even thanks to Daylight Saving but just because I felt energised and excited, I got up to watch the sunrise this morning... before starting work on a new Three Rings feature!
#note #morning #threeRings #volunteering
Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/03/29/28632/
[Geocaching log from DanQ.me]
Some fellow volunteers and I are staying in the nearby Hencote Farm for a week of work on software that helps charities work more efficiently. As has become a longstanding tradition for me at these events, I woke early for a walk and this morning was treated, as I […]
[Note from DanQ.me]
Kicking off 3Camp 2026, our annual volunteering event, with the traditional “receive and sort a ludicrous amount of groceries” activity. ×
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/03/27/28621/
#note #shopping #supermarkets #threeRings #volunteering
A large group of people stand around a pile of shopping in the centre of a nicely decorated kitchen.
Kicking off 3Camp 2026, our annual volunteering event, with the traditional "receive and sort a ludicrous amount of groceries" activity.
#note #threeRings #volunteering #shopping #supermarkets
Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/03/27/28621/
Hahahaha the #threerings always makes me chuckle.
I’m home! #threerings
[Note from DanQ.me]
Somebody just called me and quickly decided it was a wrong number. The signal was bad and I wasn't sure I'd heard them right, so I followed up by replying by text.
It turns out they asked Siri to call Three (the mobile network). Siri then presumably searched online, found […]
Somebody just called me and quickly decided it was a wrong number. The signal was bad and I wasn't sure I'd heard them right, so I followed up by replying by text.
It turns out they asked Siri to call Three (the mobile network). Siri then presumably searched online, found Three Rings, managed […]
[Note: Doxxing an Imaginary Person?]
This morning, Google pulled a video from YouTube belonging to my nonprofit Three Rings. This was a bit of a surprise.
Apparently the video - which is a demo of some Three Rings features - apparently fell foul of Google's anti-doxxing rules. I'm glad that […]
[Repost: The Last Post for the Nightline Association. How does that make you feel?]
Fellow Nightline enthusiast James Buller has written a stirring piece about his decades of volunteering for and around Nightlines, and - as usual - underplays the importance and significance of his work. Here's […]
Google Search results page for 'Three Rings CIC', showing a sidebar with information about the company and including... my personal mobile number (faked and blurred in this screenshot) and a 'Call' button that calls it!
For the last few weeks, I've been getting frequent #ThreeRings tech support calls to my personal mobile number. We don't offer phone-based tech support, so this was a bit of a surprise, and although I don't mind the odd one, this seemed like a significant ramping-up […]
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Meme-style comic with two frames. The first frame, captioned 'Shitheads be like', shows the 'Harp Darp' character saying 'I identify as hater and my pronouns are fuck/off'. The second frame, captioned 'Literally any software I design be like', shows a Three Rings logo saying 'No problem, hater.' (along with a trollface), followed by a screenshot from Three Rings in which somebody has entered their pronouns as 'fuck/off'; showing examples of how Three Rings will respect their pronouns, including 'fuck signed up to a shift by fuckself' and 'you can see other shifts of offs'.
[Meme comic about \"anti-pronouns\" haters, showcasing respectful software.]
Embarrassingly, it took until 2021 before Three Rings implemented pronouns in a way I could be proud of (and it's only improved since then!). But it still gives me a smug satisfaction […]
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[Note: 👋 Farewell, NLA]
Highlights of yesterday’s Goodbye Nightline Association party in Manchester: 👨💻 Responded to Three Rings user query in real time by implementing new Directory property while at the event (pictured) 🤝 Met a handful of Nightliners past and present; swapped war stories of […]
Dan gestures at his laptop in a quiet pub function room, on which he's writing some code. In the background, two women are having a conversation.
Highlights of yesterday's Goodbye Nightline Association party in Manchester:
👨💻 Responded to Three Rings user query in real time by implementing new Directory property while at the event (pictured)
🤝 Met a handful of Nightliners past and present; swapped war […]
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[Note: Three Rings ❤️ NLA]
Oxford Station. Catching a train to Manchester for a get-together in memory of the Nightline Association, which will sadly be closing this year (although individual Nightlines will doubtless soldier on just as they did before the Association).Carrying a big ol’ bag of […]
Dan, with blue hair and wearing a black t-shirt, stands on a sunny train platform holding aloft a medium-sized tote bag.
Oxford Station. Catching a train to Manchester for a get-together in memory of the Nightline Association, which will sadly be closing this year (although individual Nightlines will doubtless soldier on just as they did before the Association).
Carrying a big ol' bag […]
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[Geocaching log from DanQ.me]
Happy 25th birthday, geocaching.
I'm spending the weekend volunteering for a nonprofit I founded (it's almost as old as geocaching, at 23). We're staying in a hotel at N 52° 36.184' W 001° 53.869'. I've also gotten out to find a couple of local geocaches.
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[Note: Portal 3kend]
Never underestimate the power of people who are motivated by the good they can do in the world.Today I was in awe of this team of unpaid volunteers who, having already given up their bank holiday weekend, worked through dinner and into the night to ensure the continued […]
In a conference room, Dan stands in front of a group of people working on laptops.
Never underestimate the power of people who are motivated by the good they can do in the world.
Today I was in awe of this team of unpaid volunteers who, having already given up their bank holiday weekend, worked through dinner and into the night to ensure the […]
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[Geocaching log from DanQ.me]
Found following a short hunt and a brief rummage after walking up the nearby footpath, with the help of a previous log which talked about crossing a fence (which I didn’t need to do, having come up the correct way in the first place).Some fellow volunteers and I […]
[Geocaching log from DanQ.me]
Woke early, as usual, for the first day of a weekend of volunteering, while staying at nearby Fairlawns. I've already tapped out the most-local caches to that hotel on previous stays, so for this morning's walk I came further afield to find this (and one of the two […]
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While adding an entry to OpenBenches (openbenches.org/bench/36677), I was struck by how much of an impact this woman – Jane Gregg – must have made on her local community.In this community garden in Bampton, in the Lake District, a bench dedicated to her includes not only a […]
