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…

On a car journey on which they'd otherwise have been fighting, the kids helped me start a collection of heterophonic homonyms - words that are spelled the same but have different pronunciations and meanings. I've got nine of them now in English, and maybe…

A quesapizza is a quesadilla, but made using pizza ingredients: not just cheese, but also a tomato sauce and maybe some toppings. A quesapizza-pizza is a pizza... constructed using a quesapizza as its base! Watch me make one in a 90-second timelapse.

In my first few weeks at <a href="https://danq.me/2025/07/14/firstup-day-1/">my new employer</a>, my code contributions have added 218 lines of code, deleted 2,663. Only one of my PRs has resulted in a net increase in the size of their codebases (by two lines).…

In the event of a fire on my bus, I'm concerned that the head of the man sitting in front of me is flammable. <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/08/1000112004.jpg"><img width="640" height="641" src="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/08/1000112004-640x641.jpg" …

Some time in the last 20 years, ISPs stopped saying they made you "part of" the Internet, just that they'd help you "connect to" the Internet. Most people don't need a static IP, sure. But when ISPs stopped offering FTP and WWW hosting as a standard feature…

Finished work. Figured I'd chill in the hammock for a bit as it's so nice out. The dog decided she wanted to lie in it too. So now I am a pillow for a dog. <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/08/1000112191-scaled.jpg"><img width="640" height="360" src="h…

When you signed up with an ISP, you used to get Web space, email, shared FTP access, a nearby IRC node, newsgroups, and a software bundle. Nowadays you get a shit router, a voucher for a free month of a streaming service you didn't want, and crap customer…

I somehow missed the news from June about Daniel Hamrick, who courageously got on stage to play a anti-transphobia protest song at a 'heterosexual pride' event in one of the most deeply-conservative parts of the USA. Here's the video of his (short!) set.

From 1973 onwards Doug Biggert, driving around California, took an (analogue!) photograph of every hitch-hiker to whom he offered a lift. Now you can view a gallery and read his story.

For years, I've been using a HTML+CSS-only technique for popover 'lightbox' images on my blog. Now I've come up with a more-semantic way to do the same, and its HTML code is tidier too!