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Shifting into Automattic
Dan announces his upcoming departure from the Bodleian Libraries and looks forward to working with Automattic.
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DanQ.me Ecosystem
Dan explains how he produces content for the Web, and his blog's place in the ecosystem of the places his…
Anniversary Break
Dan and Ruth celebrate their 12th anniversary by cycling across Scotland.
I Don't Watch YouTube (Like You Watch YouTube)
A recent YouTube video by Veritasium helped Dan understand some of the quirks of YouTube's algorithms. Why hadn't he understood…
BBC News... without the sport
A lightweight Ruby program to republish the BBC News RSS feed... but without the sports articles.
Blogging with semantic insertions and deletions
Adapting your CSS can make semantically-enhanced / modifications to a blog post clearer to readers.
What can board game strategy tell us about the future of the car wash?
Factory Manager is one of Dan's favourite board games. Can it explain why there's no longer a car wash at…
About
Dan Q’s been blogging since the 1990s, mostly about his life, technology, programming, relationships, magic, and games.
He lives in Oxford, UK with his partner and her husband in a polyamorous V-shaped thingy, and their two children. Alongside freelance development, he works for the University of Oxford and volunteers with Three Rings. He sometimes finds time for geo*ing.
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Recent notes, reposts, checkins, and videos
- Bus Station, Unbound
- Endless Quadrum #50
- Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out
- How the Knights Hospitaller 'accidentally' became a major European air power
- Darkroom Printing
- JavaScript frameworks are better for accessibility (and other myths)
- Dan instructs a 5 year-old in diagnosing and replacing a blown PSU in her mother's computer.
- Dan helps a 5 year-old launch stomp rockets to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch.
- Stellar Rescue
- Pure Fourier series animations for 12 oddly satisfying minutes
- How a video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy
- Metropoloid: A Metropolis Remix
- Imogen Heap: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
- #TodayILearned that if you get a perfect 100-100-100-100 + #PWA score from @Google's site performance/accessibility/best practice/SEO tool "@____lighthouse" then you're treated to an animated fireworks display alongside your scores. (Yes, this is for danq.me.)
- I Staked Out My Local Dominos to See Just How Accurate Its Pizza Tracker Is
- I Put Words on this Webpage so You Have to Listen to Me Now
- Y'all wanna hear a story about the time I accidentally transported a brick of heroin from Los Angeles to Seattle?
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- In the remote chance that @Facebook's #LibraCoin takes off, I suggest that the appropriate slang term for the currency shall be zucks. As in: "I'll bet you a hundred zucks that this new #cryptocurrency will be barely more-successful than Dogecoin, and far less-cute."
- £20 for a boiled egg, one piece of toast and a mug of tea?
- Remember NonStopHammerTi.me? By order of the Queen, Dan will Remain committed to an idea.
- Dan receives an unexpected Fathers' Day card because his eldest (to whom he's "Uncle Dan") decided he deserved one too.
- Dan's employer recently ran a staff survey which produced many interesting results, but he got a warm fuzzy feeling from one in particular.
- The problem with single page apps
- Visit the Ashmolean Museum