Recent articles
Building a Playframe (Timelapse Video)
Dan builds play equipment for the kids and shares a timelapse video of the process.
Syncthing
This month, Dan's in love with Syncthing, software that keeps his household's data where it needs to be.
Santander to Accept Homemade Deeds Poll
Santander are one of two banks who've been a thorn in Dan's side since he started helping people to change…
Rebuilding a Windows box with Chocolatey
As often happens when he moves house, Dan broke a PC. But thanks to package manager Chocolatey, he was able…
Break Into . Us (lock puzzle game)
Some people, when faced with a puzzle, try to solve it. Dan tries to recreate it. That's how he wrote…
Buying Another House
By the weekend, Dan hopes to have moved house. Again, but perhaps for the last time?
About
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
- Needed new UPS batteries. Almost bought from @insight_uk but they require registration to checkout. Purchased from @SourceUPSLtd instead. Moral: having no "guest checkout" costs you business.
- Think Like a Tomato
- I'm unlikely to get a graduation ceremony like last time (on account of social distancing and whatnot), but I get a certificate to acknowledge my most-recent qualification.
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(found it) - Bodley and the Bookworms - Scan and Deliver
- Dan's Office (360° Panoramic)
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(owner maintenance) - 7 things we know about the nun reading 'Boys' Life' in 'Airplane!'
- WHAT THE BEC?! (#01)
- Lindsey Stirling/Johnny Rzeznik String Session
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(owner maintenance) - The Perfect Art Heist: Hack the Money, Leave the Painting
- My 1:1 with the Queen
- 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?