Given nothing more than a screenshot or two of my game screen, from the starting position only, ChatGPT plays GeoGuessr better than I ever could. Apart from cheating at GeoGuessr, what else could this mean? Is this going to be a scary new weapon in the toolkit…

Geocities.live transforms any web page into a 90s-Geocities-style variant of itself, and it does a surprisingly good (if slightly "samey") job of it. Its take on DanQ.me got me thinking, though: are there things I can learn from 1990s web design and apply…

Trip to Waddesdon Manor with the kids for an Easter Egg Hunt. <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/04/1000100366-scaled.jpg"><img width="640" height="481" src="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/04/1000100366-640x481.jpg" class="aligncenter size-i640" alt="Dan sits…

In preparation for Family D&D Night (and with thanks to <a href="https://danq.me/2022/03/04/printing-dungeondraft/">my earlier guide to splicing maps together</a>!), I've finally completed an expanded "overworld" map for our game world. So far, the kids have…

Y'all seemed to enjoy <a href="https://danq.me/2025/04/18/family-dds-overworld-map/">the "overworld" map</a> I shared the other day, so here's another "feelie" from my kids' ongoing D&D campaign. The party has just arranged for passage aboard a pioneering…

The Devil's Quoits (Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, UK) looks particularly striking in the bright sunlight of this Spring morning. <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/04/1000100449-scaled.jpg"><img width="640" height="470" src="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/04/1000100449…

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...

Today, my partner's husband received a letter, addressed to him, about a change to his credit card agreement. Except the letter wasn't about his credit card... it was about mine! Halifax dun goofed.

Just to reassure myself that I really can do all the things I say on my CV, I've been looking at tech tests that touch on each of them. I can definitely write React, for example... but... I might question the wisdom of a company that's exclusively recruiting…

"Trans former judge plans to challenge gender ruling at European court": https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qw2149yelo Representation matters. That we HAVE a trans former-judge, somebody both well-equipped AND motivated to escalate this important challenge…

Thanks to recent browser enhancements, it's possible to show videos of different aspect ratios based on CSS media queries with no JavaScript dependencies. You can even combine it with adaptive bitrate streaming, even on static hosting. Let me show you how.

My contribution to the long-standing British tradition of photographing dogs at polling stations. Don't forget to vote, folks! <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/05/1000101127-scaled.jpg"><img width="640" height="360" src="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/05/1000101127…

Train provider Avanti's website may be accessible... but their emails, which you need to interact with to USE their website... are not. It's simply not possible to verify your email address if you use a screen reader, and there's no guest checkout option.

Never underestimate the power of people who are motivated by the good they can do in the world. Today I was in awe of this team of unpaid volunteers who, having already given up their bank holiday weekend, worked through dinner and into the night to ensure…

Playing hide and seek in Kennilworth Castle. You'll never find me! (geotagged for your convenience) <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/05/1000101566-scaled.jpg"><img width="640" height="359" src="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/05/1000101566-640x359.jpg" class="aligncenter…

CSS is powerful and performant. Let's implement client-side list filtering (with the user's choice of AND and OR modes) in CSS, without a line of JavaScript.

What's that, girl? Two children are lost somewhere in this bookshop? Yeah, I should probably find them and take them home for lunch. <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/05/1000102473-scaled.jpg"><img width="640" height="1142" src="https://danq.me/_q23u/2…

Oxford Station. Catching a train to Manchester for a get-together in memory of the Nightline Association, which will sadly be closing this year (although individual Nightlines will doubtless soldier on just as they did before the Association). Carrying a…

Paraphrased from a conversation in a Manchester pub last night - <strong>Them:</strong> Your [dyed blue] hair is queer-coded, right? Like... you're telegraphing you're queer? <strong>Me:</strong> I mean... I'm also wearing a pride rainbow t-shirt and my watch…

Off to London. BRB! <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/05/1000102977-scaled.jpg"><img width="640" height="360" src="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/05/1000102977-640x360.jpg" class="aligncenter size-i640" alt="Dan, sitting on a bus." loading="lazy"></a>