Dan Pope

Occasional blogger, amateur photographer, head in the Cloud. (he/him)

If I haven’t met you in person, I’m unlikely to accept your follow request

Website: https://dpope.uk/
Location: East London, UK

Last Notes

2026-07-23 19:31:52 GMT

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It's been nice hearing feedback about my #EMFCamp talk about photographing lightning, and I'm glad people appreciated this animation that took me most of a day to make!
Watch the whole thing at https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-41-1-photographing-lightning-with-a-diy-lightning-trigger
https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/116/970/866/496/793/279/original/6aaffc0965e0aba8.mp4

2026-06-07 22:36:11 GMT

I spent the whole day making 2 minutes worth of content for my #EMFCamp talk. I hope all the effort pays off. Here, have a teaser
https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/116/711/185/925/891/621/original/81be03d62ce1d90a.mp4

2026-02-06 11:17:02 GMT

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what is the magic incantation? Is it just a matter of adding a silent audio track?

2024-11-02 22:27:46 GMT

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I saw this one on a walk and I forgot to add tags - there’s a Spotify code on it and I couldn’t get it to play. Can anyone scan it?

2024-10-27 15:29:48 GMT

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I’m reading this sat at a train platform, there’s a guy opposite disrupting the peace by playing shitty music on his phone. I wonder if he’d appreciate being handed some cheap headphones?

2024-10-16 20:44:35 GMT

11 months late, I finally hit publish on a post about #bclxii, just in time for BarCamp London 13! See you there next month? #bclxiii
https://danielthepope.wordpress.com/2024/10/16/barcamp-london-12/

2024-10-11 18:34:37 GMT

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The reason I found this out is because I was about to run an `aws s3 sync` command from OneDrive to Glacier, but I ran it with `--dryrun` first, and it said it was going to reupload a bunch of photos from 2006-2011. The AWS CLI thinks they've been modified since the last time I synchronised this folder.

2024-10-11 18:30:42 GMT

I keep my family's photos backed up on a hard drive in my parents' house, in OneDrive for easy access, and AWS Glacier in case their house burns down and Microsoft deletes my account at the same time.
About 1% of those photos, a seemingly random selection, have been modified by *something* within the last year. Their file sizes are slightly larger (only ~3kB). What is going on? Is it malicious? 🧐