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!

I hand-drew a QR code so it looks like what I did was made a maze in Microsoft Paint. But it works! Here's how.

Maybe I'm just hungry, but this morning's breakfast bagel with brie looks especially scrumptious, right? <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/08/1000113645-scaled.jpg"><img width="640" height="407" src="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/08/1000113645-640x407.jpg"…