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Tag: graphs

  • Screenshot of a table and graph that shows all AI companies spending significantly more money than they make... except for NVidia, who're making bank.

    Is AI Profitable Yet?

    No surprises from this website, but it's interesting/staggering to see quite how LARGE the disparity between spending and profit is for some of these companies.

    Read more (130 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • 1 comment
    • posted 28 May, 2026
  • Pie charts approximating the probability of rolling 1-3, 4-5, 6, or 'multiple 6s' when rolling 1 through 8 six-sided dice.

    Visualising Forged In The Dark probabilities

    Blades in the Dark (and other Forged In The Dark-based games) use a highest-value-from-D6-dice-pool mechanic to resolve actions. I was looking for a visualisation of the resulting probabilities, but couldn't find one... so I made my own.

    Read more (353 words)

    • Article
    • 3 comments
    • posted 7 January, 2026
  • Not just a global issue but a local one too. A local one... almost everywhere.

    Full image of Series of coloured bars trending from blue to red, representing relative temperature change in Oxford, UK, for the last 111 years, showing a clear average increase of a couple of โ„ƒ.
    Alt

    Series of coloured bars trending from blue to red, representing relative temperature change in Oxford, UK, for the last 111 years, showing a clear average increase of a couple of โ„ƒ.

    #ShowYourStripes

    • Note
    • posted 23 June, 2025
  • Venn-Euler diagram with circles representing Romantic Breakups and Open-Source Tech Layoffs (the former overlaid with a broken heart icon, the latter with a background reminiscient of the Automattic logo). The items unique to each are 'paired': Who keeps the dog? / Who keeps the laptop?; Half your friends take "their side" / Half your friends still work for them; Slim chance of make-up sex / Slim chance of meaningful reference; Find out in person (unless they're a monster) / Find out by email (with 10 minutes notice); Comes with a brutal list of your flaws / Comes with no useful feedback whatsoever; "I'm happier on my own anyway!" / "Oh fuck, how am I going to pay the bills?"; Bags in the hallway / Bags under your eyes. The intersection of both circles includes: Trash talk; Risk of rebound; "How did I not see this coming?"; Sadness when you wake up without them; Still feel responsible for the things you produced; Emotionally gruelling.

    Breakups vs Layoffs

    I've had a few breakups, but I've only been made redundant once. There's a surprising overlap between the two! Here, let's put a Venn-Euler diagram together...

    Read more (112 words)

    • Article
    • 3 comments
    • posted 22 April, 2025
  • Wide diagram consisting of 2,062 vertical lines in a variety of different colours, each representing a different blog post.

    The Continuum

    Inspired by Geneveive Raine's "The Continuum", I turned all of my blog post's featured images into a stripy picture.

    Read more (237 words)

    • Article
    • posted 10 February, 2025
  • Calendar showing Sunday 25 August through Sunday 1 December inclusive, with a coloured "spot" on each day with a size corresponding to the number of posts made on that day, broken into a pie chart showing the proportion of different post kinds.

    99 Days of Blogging

    I've blogged a total of 219 posts spanning 99 consecutive days of blogging, a personal best by a long stretch.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (478 words)

    • Article
    • posted 1 December, 2024
  • Dan with a child in front of beamlines coming out of the Diamond Light Synchrotron ring.

    Science Weekend

    It was a weekend full of science, starting with a visit to the excellent open day at Harwell Campus and a trip to the Diamond Light Synchrotron, and finishing with a series of medical tests on my lungs and why they're not working as well as they ought to. With graphs!

    Read more (434 words)

    • Article
    • posted 1 July, 2024
  • Intranet identity card for Dan Q (he/him/his), Code Magician on Desire.

    Automattic Switch

    Fire, my team at work, has been extinguished and I've been moved to Team Desire. I've struggled to find my feet, but I think I'm settling in now.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (595 words)

    • Article
    • 3 comments
    • posted 19 April, 2024
  • Trophy on a desk with the plaque "most pointless blog posts".

    Reflecting on Bloganuary

    Well that was Bloganuary! I managed to write a prompt-based blog post for every day in January, totalling about 20,000 words, along with a handful of other posts, and in doing so managed my longest "daily streak" in 25+ years of blogging. So what's next...?

    Read more - about 4 minutes (904 words)

    • Article
    • 3 comments
    • posted 1 February, 2024
  • A person wearing a cardboard box on their head, labelled "BRAIN". Above, a hand reaches from out-of-frame to hold a sign labelled "IDEA" above them.

    [Bloganuary] My Biggest Challenge

    What's the biggest challenge on my horizon as I come into the New Year? Right now, it feels like it's Bloganuary! But there's an underlying challenge of winter motivation and procrastination that makes Bloganuary seem so hard.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (498 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 1 January, 2024
  • Overlaid graphs showing blog post frequency by post kind on DanQ.me, throughout its entire history and through the calendar year.

    Blogging Stats

    I finally got around to automating the generation of statistics about my blogging frequency. Now with interactive graphs!

    Read more (339 words)

    • Article
    • posted 13 December, 2023
  • Treemap showing countries of Automatticians. North America and specifically the USA dominates, the UK has the most in Europe, etc.

    Automattic International

    Off the back of a colleague's throwaway comment, Dan makes cartograms showing how his coworkers' countries proportionally dominate their world map.

    Read more (470 words)

    • Article
    • 8 comments
    • posted 14 February, 2022
  • World map showing the locations of Dan, his immediate team, and its parent team. There's a cluster of nine pins Europe, a few pins further East in Russia and Indonesia, one in Cape Town, two in North America, and one in Central America.

    Automattic Privilege

    Dan's thinks about the geographic/cultural privileges he enjoys within his international workplace.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (664 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 7 February, 2022
  • Graph showing all 1.802 current Automatticians as coloured squares, ordered by their start date. Dan Q's square is squarely (LOL) in the middle.

    Automattic Growth

    After only two years at Automattic, Dan's now been there longer than most. Wait, what?

    Read more (362 words)

    • Article
    • posted 10 November, 2021
  • Blog posts by type and month, a graph showing how articles barely change throughout the year but reposts are highest in the first half of the year, checkins peak in the spring and summer, and notes get a big boost in November.

    When do I #blog? A breakdown of my top four #indieweb content types - articles, reposts, checkins and notes - by month.

    Read more (93 words)

    • Note
    • 7 comments
    • posted 9 September, 2021

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