Recent articles
Buying Another House
By the weekend, Dan hopes to have moved house. Again, but perhaps for the last time?
Sour Grapes... a Murder Mystery in Lockdown
Dan doesn't let lockdown get in the way of hosting a murder mystery party, with thanks to the power of…
Future Challenges for Remote Working
As more and more companies (especially tech companies) talk about retaining a remote-work culture after the coronavirus crisis, Dan considers…
Automattic Lockdown (days 79 to 206)
In another 128-day-interval update, Dan looks back on months two through six working for Automattic.
Mackerelmedia Fish
Dan reviews Mackerelmedia Fish, a surreal game by Nathalie Lawhead, and recommends that you give it a go.
Digital Climate Strike's Carbon Footprint
Dan criticises a website promoting a "Digital Climate Strike" as being among the world's worst websites from the perspective of…
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Dan Q’s been blogging since the 1990s, mostly about his life, technology, programming, relationships, hacking, and games.
He lives in Oxford, UK with his partner and her husband in a polyamorous V-shaped thingy, and their two children. Until he finds something that rhymes better, he describes himself as a magician Automattician on a geoposition-mission.
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Recent notes, reposts, checkins, videos, and reviews
- Simply Paul found GC88ZY9 The Devil's Quoits
- Human Tapestry - Episode 1
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(found it) - Tour of our old house
- Intent
- SPACEX - ISS Docking Simulator
- Stethoscope
- With #lockdown guidance as it stands, only six of the seven dwarfs can meet together in the park? The seventh dwarf won’t be Happy. In fact, he’ll be Grumpy. Which is a problem, because that means one of the six is Sneezy.
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(temporarily disable listing) - Unreal Engine 5 is meant to ridicule web developers
- Celebrate Seventeen
- Pyjama Party Water Fight
- A new Automattician who started this week looked me up to thank me for the first in my series of blog posts about starting with @automattic. I feel useful! 😍
- Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app
- Scunthorpe Sans
- Why $FAMOUS_COMPANY switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY
- Lucky Devil Eats
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(found it) - What's wrong with London's boroughs?
- Chafed nipples. But we only have Frozen II themed plasters in the house. So now I'm wearing an Elsa & Anna pasties. How did my life come to this?
- I think our local red kites were mostly living on roadkill, and the lockdown means they're not getting fed. They've also forgotten how to hunt: this afternoon I watched one get its ass handed to it by a medium-sized crow.
- Thursday
- The next time we want to import a horse to Russia it will be a doddle
- Visitors, Developers, or Machines
- The Board Game Remix Kit
- Pass The Pepper: Social Distancing is Nothing to Sneeze At
- Fox In Sox
- Lockdown Productivity: Spaceship You
- Giving a Damn at Scale
- Getting Hired at Automattic
- Dungeon Drawers
- For the benefit of my South African colleagues on Slack, I give you the #maskchallenge #emoji.
- Happy Birthday, You're Fired