Recent articles
Twinebook - Printable Interactive Fiction
Twinebook lets you use Twine to make printable adventure gamebooks. Is there mileage in expanding on the prototype, Dan wonders?
The Ballad of John Crawford
Dan and his friends play a second game of Dialect, this time as a criminal gang on Portsmouth docks.
Hey ONS: This Is Not A Mistake
Last census, Dan and his family had to fill the paper version to work-around monogamy-centric validations on the digital versions.…
Entles (Gender-Neutral Aunts, Uncles, etc.)
With thanks to Enfys' latest blog post, Dan learns a new word and he loves it.
Axe Feather 2021
Dan recreates a 16-year old Flash-based interactive ad using modern web technologies.
Further Lessons in Wood-Fired Pizza
Dan makes another attempt at cooking pizza in his wood-fired oven. It turns out better than last time, and he…
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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
- Wix and Their Dirty Tricks
- How to beat Skyrim without walking
- Polyam Lingo
- I Will Never Stop Learning
- The Devil's Quoits
- The Bobstacle Course
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- Tribute to Peter Huntley
- The Varieties of Intimate Relationship
- Retrohashing expedition 2012 02 19 51 -1
- Basilisk collection
- Review for ProtonMail Encryption Status by Morgan Larosa
- The Coolest Thing About GPS
- The Secret of Magic
- Coca-Cola company trials first paper bottle
- I'm On Fire
- Octave Compass
- Reply to "I was permanently banned by Facebook"
- Loremen Podcast Simulator
- Stumbling
- Can you tell me how to get in touch with your technical/security team @firstdirecthelp? Apparently my report about a vulnerability in your website contains characters that aren’t “valid” for your sucky feedback form… but it doesn’t say which ones.
- Best Before
- Look at Banner, Dan!
- Story Time
- Having Kids In Our Poly Triad by Sara Valta
- Robin's Ten Minute ICE CHALLENGE
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- Banners Begone!
- Recursively repackaging .mkvs as .mp4s
- Why children stay silent following sexual violence
- Sometimes, I miss Troma Night. Hanging out with my friends and watching awful/awesome films over pizza and beer. If only there were a way to do it during lockdown? Oh wait, there is: danq.me/homa-night/homa-night-2
- The Longest Limebike ride in history
- Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back
- Dan replies to Jeremy's note about blood donation to observe that there's an underdeveloped IndieWeb post type that might one…
- Watched the pilot of Webbed Briefs by @heydonworks (of Every Layout fame). It’s a sarcastic independent vlog about web technologies, so I immediately fell in love and subscribed to the feed… Just kidding. It doesn’t have a feed! (Yet?)
- Why using Google VPN is a terrible idea