🆕 Avanti's Accessibility Failure - https://danq.me/2025/05/01/avantis-accessibility-failure/
Dan Q
Avanti’s Accessibility Failure
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.
🆕 Portal 3kend - https://danq.me/2025/05/03/portal-3kend/
Dan Q
Portal 3kend
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…
🆕 Kennilworth Castle - https://danq.me/2025/05/05/kennilworth-castle/
Dan Q
Kennilworth Castle
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…
🆕 Three Rings ❤️ NLA - https://danq.me/2025/05/11/nla-goodbye/
Dan Q
Three Rings ❤️ NLA
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…
🆕 Queer Coded 🌈 - https://danq.me/2025/05/12/queer-coded/
Dan Q
Queer Coded 🌈
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…
🆕 Philadelphia - https://danq.me/2025/05/20/philadelphia/
Dan Q
Philadelphia
Shower thought for the morning was: why is cream cheese spread 'Philadelphia' called that? Is it from Philadelphia? (My box isn't, of course: it came from Ireland.) <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/05/20250520_080203-scaled.jpg"><img width="640" height="360"…
🆕 Google Shared My Phone Number! - https://danq.me/2025/05/21/google-shared-my-phone-number/
Dan Q
Google Shared My Phone Number!
When people started calling my personal mobile number with questions about a voluntary organisation I'm involved with, I was confused: we weren't sharing that number. It turns out that Google had decided to take the number I used to verify my identity for…
🆕 The Difference Between Downloading and Streaming - https://danq.me/2025/05/26/downloading-vs-streaming/
Dan Q
The Difference Between Downloading and Streaming
Mostly to make use of an animation I made for a different blog post that hasn't materialised, let me take a moment to explain to you the fundamental technical difference between 'streaming' and 'downloading'. Which won't take long... because there isn't one!
🆕 DB13W3 - https://danq.me/2025/05/27/db13w3/
Dan Q
DB13W3
I'd like to nominate DB13W3 for Most Cursed Connector. I mean, just look at that thing! <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/05/1000104078.jpg"><img width="640" height="496" src="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/05/1000104078-640x496.jpg" class="aligncenter size…
🆕 I Wrote the Same Code Six Times! - https://danq.me/2025/06/07/lru-cache-challenge/
Dan Q
I Wrote the Same Code Six Times!
Could I rock an interview tech-test in a programming language I haven't touched in a decade? I wanted to know, so I found a tech-test... then solved it in six different programming languages in a single sitting.