Happy Stone Circle Sunday! The youngest and I went out to Avebury Henge, the world's largest neolithic standing stone circle and henge. <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/06/20250615_145408-scaled.jpg"><img width="640" height="360" src="https://danq.me/…

As part of the Village Festival, there's a scarecrow competition around my way with a televisual theme. I love that my local community works so hard to carve out an individual identity and personality for itself!

Not just a global issue but a local one too. A local one... almost everywhere. <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/06/showyourstripes-oxford.png"><img width="640" height="360" src="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/06/showyourstripes-oxford-640x360.png" class="aligncenter…

Recently, I got to answer a technical interview question with "Coincidentally, I implemented exactly what you're describing two weeks ago. For fun. Can I show you the code and the blog post I wrote to explain my design choices?"

Pretty sure there isn't a prize for Throwing Wet Sponges At Children during the graduating year's "fun run" at the school sports day... but just like the kids are asked to, I'm going to try my best. 😁

Sometimes all you need to complete the perfect offset geocache is a GPSr, some hand tools... and the willingness to unilaterally declare a remote bench to be a memorial to a fictional person, just to get a particular set of numbers out into the world! <a…

The court ruling that declares Anthropic's use of (purchased) books as training material leaves a curious sorites paradox. If we assume that an LLM trained on only one book (and so only capable of producing content directly inspired by that book) would necessarily…

Fellow Nightline enthusiast James Buller has written a stirring piece about his decades of volunteering for and around Nightlines, and - as usual - underplays the importance and significance of his work. Here's my take.

Sometimes LinkedIn's approach to anonymising who looks you up isn't very effective. <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/07/founder-at-wordpress-viewed-your-profile.png"><img width="508" height="96" src="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/07/founder-at-wordpress-viewed…

I'll soon by starting in my new role at Firstup, after a rollercoaster of a recruitment process that rocketed through all the usual tech job steps... but in barely over a week. What a rush!

The unrepentant bleppy face of a dog who, without fail, steals the warm spot I've left behind on the sofa within like three seconds of me standing up. <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/07/20250706_192708.jpg"><img width="640" height="634" src="https://…

Ruth and I sometimes send one another the 'person rowing boat' emoji when no other emoji seems to fit, and I can't even remember why we started.

I know how I'm SUPPOSED to read it, but when I see this I can't help but imagine a conversation like... "What shall we call our car wash?" /waves hand/ "I dunno." <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/07/1000089465.png"><img width="473" height="259" src="h…

Off to my first day at <a href="https://firstup.io/">Firstup</a>. Gotta have an induction: get my ID badge, learn where the toilets are, how to refill the coffee machine, and all that jazz. Except, of course, none of those steps will be part of my induction.…

My new employer sent me a laptop and a monitor, which I immediately added to my already pretty-heavily-loaded desk. Wanna see?

PleaseFixThisSite.com is a funny web-based take on that XKCD comic about extorting graphic designers who hate your design choices. But you don't actually need to pay the extortionist to "fix" their site. Just have your userscript manager run a few lines of…

I wanted a button on my desk that, when I pressed it, would simultaneously lock every computer connected to my KVM system. Here's what I came up with.

I've eaten "doughnut holes", but I've never seen anybody market "bagel holes". Untapped opportunity? 🤔

Seventy years ago, residents of this part of London would take shelter from V1 and V2 bombs in a tunnel beneath my feet. And today, I'm going down there to take a look! <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/07/1000111443-scaled.jpg"><img width="640" height="360"…

Went to Wagamama. Accidentally made the "Order of the Beast". (Plus a similar side, for those who read binary.) <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/07/20250727_155047-scaled.jpg"><img width="640" height="360" src="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/07/20250727_155047…