While bemoaning the rising cost of domain names, Michael also observed that blogging and personal websites are suffering a lack of young newcomers. In my reply I disagree, saying that they're there... just not where he's looking for them!

TIL that I dance Argentine Tango with Ruth better... when I close my eyes. It's a fundamentally intuitive and semi-improvised dance built on connection and communication and it turns out that, for me at least, the best way to stop trying to visually predict…

Firefox 157's new UI engine Nova made my previously-beautiful vertical tabs into a pile of hot garbage. Ugh.

For Jeff Johnson, Reddit's ecosystem becoming yet-more closed-down and enshittified, with them dropping RSS support, is the last straw. For me, it would have been too (if I hadn't already abandoned ship nine years prior!).

Sean Goedecke puts forward a few arguments why people shouldn't play at 'torturing' LLMs. I disagree with many of his arguments, but I agree with his conclusion because of a different argument: one made by animal rights activists for hundreds of years now:…

<p>I'm spending the weekend in the hotel nearby, for the AGM of <a href="https://threerings.org.uk/">a nonprofit I'm involved with</a>. This morning I realised they I had a spare quarter of an hour before a meeting and wondered if I could clock this geocache.</p>…

<p>I expected not to have opportunity for a second attempt at this today, but my schedule opened up somewhat when the fire alarm went off at the hotel and we had to evacuate! As hotel guests and meeting attendees gathered at the muster points, I excused myself…

A <a href="https://threerings.org.uk/">Three Rings</a> development sub-team seems to have developed a habit of making production server changes at in-person events, right before meals are served. On <a href="https://danq.me/2025/05/03/portal-3kend/">at least…

A pre-dawn walk around East Bristol from a Three Rings event took me to within 16 metres... but not quite all the way to... a geohashpoint.

On a forum they and I share, Loebas suggested that I should be careful doing portscans in case I hit e.g. fail2ban rules. I counter that such rulesets would be a terrible idea (and are therefore uncommon), and provide a specific demonstration of how an attacker…

Anil Dash is unhappy that "unalive" and other algospeak has become so prevalent and mainstream. I, too, am concerned about what this says about our willingness to censor our speech to speculatively appease the whims of corporations to whom we owe nothing.

I love Weird Web October, and Christopher's off to an amazing start this year: well worth a look at his wacky projects for the month (and trying to find the cat in each one: I've managed!) before you go check out what everybody else who's participating is…

Fuck you <em>Ted Lasso</em> season 4 finale, I hadn't planned on crying today. 😭

I just realised that I never shared this anecdote online before - One time, I got locked-in at the <a href="https://www.vam.ac.uk/south-kensington">V&A Museum</a> after closing-time. I'd been there for a museums & cultural institutions event and I'd probably…

This year, I'm (slightly) participating in Weird Web October. For today's theme, 'skeuomorphism', I implemented a mouse curser... (not a typo)

For the second time in two years, Halifax wrote to me about my credit card... but sent the letter to entirely the wrong person, leaking my personal financial information.

The public will be able to watch the execution of a former US Army major by firing squad, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has said. I feel physically sick.

The bed in my hotel room tonight is made up for not one, not two, but three occupants. Did they... see me and instantly clock me as polyamorous? <a href="https://danq.me/_q26u/2026/10/1000152195-scaled.jpg"><img width="640" height="360" src="https://danq…

On the window sill of the bar at the hotel where Ruth and I are learning to tango... this morning I made a squirrel friend! At least now I'll have succeeded at <em>something</em> today even if I can't get the hang on not-treading-on-toes! <a href="https:…

<p>There's some kind of foot race going on today and the well area is heaving with people: spectators lining the roadside are cheering and whooping as the runners barrel past. My partner <a href="https://fleeblewidget.co.uk/">Ruth</a> and are only in town…

<a href="https://fleeblewidget.co.uk/">Ruth</a> and I stopped at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanley_Swan">Hanley Swan</a> for a picnic lunch on our way home from our weekend of Argentine Tango classes. Within seconds our lunch had attracted a large…