Some days, developing Three Rings is about being hunched over a keyboard alone in the middle of the night, swearing at Rubygem incompatibilities. But just ocassionally it's about getting together in beautiful places with some of the most dedicated geeks I…

There was no mixing bowl in the house large enough to make enough pizza dough to feed <em>all</em> of the <em>Three Rings</em> volunteers present at this year's 3Camp, so I just had to pour out all the ingredients onto the surface and work from there. <a…

This year's 3Camp venue had a wood-fired pizza oven, so I signed-up for a shift of cooking for my fellow volunteers and thoroughly enjoyed making and baking a monumental amount of dough.

The final of the short term lets we're staying in (before we switch to a medium-term one!) while our flooded house is repaired is also perhaps the prettiest. Our village this week is peak-Cotswolds, for sure! <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2026/04/1000133911…

Today I had a Cadburys' Cream Egg... for breakfast. I am a monster.

Inspired by Mike Cook's argument that old video games should be allowed to die, I was inspired to jot down some of my own thoughts and experiences in the area of video game preservation.

I guess I'll need some "assistnace" from Tesco to explain why my (long-neglected!) Clubcard didn't work when buying some emergency sunscreen this morning. 😂 <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2026/04/1000134048-scaled.jpg"><img width="640" height="384" src="…

I've lived in a LOT of different places these last few months while we've been arranging a place to live for the next six months or so of our house repairs. Each new AirBnB has had its pros and cons (and each hasn't felt like "home"). <a href="https://da…

It's fifty-five days since my house flooded. Since then, I've lived in hotels, with friends, on volunteering retreats and - mostly - in a series of one- or two-week AirBnB-style short-term lets. It's been wild. It's also been wildly disruptive. To our work.…

The dog is concerned. Why, despite all her warnings, am I still letting these men take all of our (surviving) furniture? <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2026/04/1000134235-scaled.jpg"><img width="640" height="360" src="https://danq.me/_q23u/2026/04/1000134235…

Long ago, you could move to a new area, scan for local WiFi networks, and fully expect to see a wonderful diversity of different network names. Some named for their locations, sure, but others named for people, or fandoms, or just "fun" ones. Has this art…

Free house we're living in right now has an astroturf "lawn". I'm not saying the lack of nature is affecting the older child, but today she came out for a walk explicitly because she wanted to stand barefoot on some actual grass! <a href=""></a>

Today's mission in what we're calling the Chicory House - our home while our actual house gets repaired - was to unpack the kitchen. I think it's looking pretty good! (The cardboard box you can see contains pans we brought with us that turn out to be incompatible…

There's a special spot in my wallet where my "front door key" lives, but - despite the practical reasons to do so - I've resisted adding the Chicory House key in that spot. Instead, I've found myself keeping it in the "secondary key" spot, as a tiny reminder…

A goldfinch came to my bedroom window to say hi, this morning. Good morning, Goldfinch! <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2026/04/1000134688.jpg"><img width="640" height="647" src="https://danq.me/_q23u/2026/04/1000134688-640x647.jpg" class="aligncenter size…

Inspired by Jeremy Keith doing the same, I've also made the salary history of my career transparent.

Now that we've <a href="https://danq.me/2026/04/12/unpacked-kitchen/">finished</a> our <a href="https://danq.me/2026/04/09/woof-burglars/">move</a> into the <a href="https://danq.me/2026/04/13/chicory-keys/">Chicory House</a>, I have for the first time in…

As if I hadn't suffered enough "flood damage" this year, I started my first workday since rebuilding my home office setup - hour the first time in months! - in our rental... by pouring a cup of coffee into my keyboard. 😱 <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/20…

Today, for the first time ever, I reached the end of a roll if dental floss without first losing or giving up on it.

I enjoy a mobile game called FlipFlop Solitaire, which provides a few thousand pre-seeded decks that are guaranteed "winnable". This blew my mind for a little while - how can you be sure that these shuffles are all winnable? But then I worked out a way to…