Dan Q

Like Kev, Sal, and Colin's sites, my new blog theme also differentiates between regular and :visited links.

After months of minor tweaks, on-and-off, I finally bit the bullet and hit "publish" on my new theme for DanQ.me.

Here's a neat trick.

Content warning This post briefly touches on experience of the practical and emotional side-effects of a credible threat being made to the safety of a loving and healthy families by the underchecked power of social workers if they bringing to their work b…

On a forum recently the conversation drifted into talking about the innovations different Web browsers had introduced, over the years.

Filter US-centric content?

Jeff says that he is a better person without his phone.

Every time I see Sainsburys comparing the value-for-money of different brands of toilet roll, the abbreviation they use catches me out and I think they’re telling me how much paper I should be “using”. 📰 Using a feed reader is the best way to read my blog…

While at work today, debugging a weird edge-case where some emails to Outlook have some unexpected padding, I learned something weird: Microsoft Outlook still (kinda) supports WordArt.

This post is secret; you can only find it via my RSS feeds (and places which syndicate them).

It’s been 214 days since I had to evacuate my house following a flood, and repair work is (intermittently) underway.

My collection of “postcards from the Internet” grew again this week when I received another complete-surprise postcard.

… Of the handful of times I’ve seen people sharing their salary history, they are always very high.

Noah S said: Here is a php script that blocks many AI bots from accessing my website.

This checkin to GC3C7FT Woodies reflects a geocaching.com log entry.

This checkin to geohash 2026-09-13 51 -1 reflects a geohashing expedition.

Miloš Novović, in Opusfived This piece of experimental interactive fiction is a silly (but with a grain of truth!)

I’m obsessed with this “laptop” our 7 year old made: I asked him what the different features were.

Matt Mullenweg takes an involuntary leave of absence from Automattic, the company behind WordPress.

Pixel Area (@pxlarea@mastodon.social) launched a couple of weeks ago, and DanQ.me was selected to be one of the initial “seed” blogs that were there at the outset (I’m at https://pxlarea.com/x38y34).

That moment when you realise that you forgot your sunglasses but figure you’ll just squint. 🎗️ Using RSS feeds is a great way to keep up-to-date with my blog.

People complain about Firefox.

Needed to renew my driving license.

AI peaked in 20141 with the invention of the Taco Bot 30002.

… Roald Dahl does not use fronted adverbials for time and coordinating conjunctions, he deliberately makes his work simple and frenetic, the stream of consciousness of a curious child , the turbocharged imagination of youth in prose it can easily understa…

I’m still lagging way-behind on writing-up the nonfiction I’ve been reading this year, and I’m long overdue1 to share my love of Holly Gramazio‘s debut novel, The Husbands.

… As far as I can tell, www.google.com is the only site exempted by Chrome.

HTTP status code 204 means “no content”.

The first time I saw Michelangelo’s David in person, I wept.

In 2014 we bought a car1, registered in my name.

This checkin to GC9EXXC Shady Seat on The Green reflects a geocaching.com log entry.

I descaled the coffee machine yesterday.

… I have such an admiration for those who post so much without fear of reprisal; posting purely for the sake of loving writing and sharing their opinions and thoughts with the world, not because they’re trying to manipulate search engines or grift some ad…

Today I’m introducing the next generation of code editor.

Wombat sent me the above picture: A physical ad by Apple on a big canvas.

This checkin to GC9BHWG Watercress beds reflects a geocaching.com log entry.

This checkin to GC8ZWZ3 Letcombe Bridges 1 reflects a geocaching.com log entry.

This checkin to GC4H2MB Church Micro 4008…Letcombe Regis reflects a geocaching.com log entry.

This checkin to GC9F5YC GIs in Letcombe reflects a geocaching.com log entry.

This checkin to GC9QWHD Plankton's cache reflects a geocaching.com log entry.

This checkin to GC93M2N Segsbury Fort reflects a geocaching.com log entry.

This checkin to GC46RY8 It really is about the (2 millionth) cache reflects a geocaching.com log entry.

This checkin to GC39X1K GH #11 twisted tree reflects a geocaching.com log entry.

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