Recent articles
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…
Edge Blink and Progressive Web Apps
Dan investigates the pioneering Progressive Web App features of Edge Dev.
The Four-Handed Condom
Dan provides another take on why the Tulipán Placer Consentido condom is useless, but it's good that it's being talked…
Non Stop Hammer Ti.me
Dan launches NonStopHammerTi.me, the latest pointless thing he's put on the Web.
About
Since the 1990s, Dan Q has maintained some kind of personal blog, talking about his life as well as 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 web consultancy, he works for the University of Oxford and volunteers with Three Rings. He sometimes finds time for geo*ing.
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- 1,819 articles: long-form blog posts, since August 1998 (but with some backdated as far as October 1982!)
- 110 notes: short, “tweet-like” posts, since March 2014
- 919 reposts: other people’s content you should see, since July 2003
- 666 checkins: geotagged content, typically resulting from Dan’s GPS gaming, since January 2010
- 76 videos: watch them with your eyes here (or, where available, syndicated to YouTube/QTube), since March 2001
- 4 comics: a handful of comics, mostly the few surviving archives from Dan & Alex, since March 2006
- Everything at once: it’ll take about 3.04 days to read all 874,870 words, so pace yourself
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Recent notes, shares, checkins, and videos
- £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
- Look After Lorcán
- Berlin 8:00 a.m.
- How to Draw a Horse
- The last Soviet citizen: The cosmonaut who was left behind in space - Russia Beyond
- Reducing motion with the picture element
- Goat LARP
- Elderflower season is here once again and the eldest and I are kicking off our elderflower cordial production line!
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- Caverna Do Dragão
- The man who made Einstein world-famous
- Going Critical
- Danny Daycare
- Cat Salesman (Sioux Falls Area Humane Society)
- Accessibility Resources
- Blowout
- JavaScript and the mobile-only user
- Permission to Write Stuff
- The Side Effects of Vaccines - How High is the Risk?
- css-only-chat/README.md at master · kkuchta/css-only-chat · GitHub
- Jon Snow oh oh EXTENDED REMIX oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
- What Happened After My 13-Year-Old Son Joined the Alt-Right
- Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft
- My TED Video on the Future of Work
- First Physical Retaliation for a Cyberattack
- A Conspiracy To Kill IE6
- Avengers, MCU, Game of Thrones, and the Content Endgame
- remysharp comments on "Bringing back the Web of 1990"
- Episode 25: ON CONSENT AND CUDDLING with my daughter Des
- 1. Step out of my office. 2. Receive handful of free pizza. Thanks @PapaJohnsUK!