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dan q personal blog of dan q hacker magician geocacher gamer skip to content dan q i m dan q he him i ve spent the last 26 years creating and writing online i work as a software engineer and i volunteer with three rings i live with my partner her husband two kids and a dog i can sometimes be found geo ing performing magic or recording the most pointless podcast i believe in open source open relationships and opening doors to marginalised groups black lives matter trans rights are human rights be nice to humans human my polyamory is boring a conversation with another openly polyamorous blogger led us to ask one another why we don t write about our relationship structure more often in my case the answer is simple my relationships are boring and that s a good thing but here s your chance to tell me i m wrong read more article 1 week ago i hate most keyboard fn keys sometimes keyboards come with a fn key that allows some of their context sensitive keys to do particular general purpose functions sometimes these are implemented in careful considerate and configurable ways and other times they just make me want to throw the keyboard out of the window read more article podcast 2 weeks ago so unbelievable it sounds like you googled it degoogling is so 2010s let s make the 2020s the decade where we redefine google as a verb in the age of ai first search to google now ought to give a nod to the accuracy and ethical issues posed by making ai into people s first experience of web search read more article 2 weeks ago f day plus 113 it s been 113 days since my house flooded and it s almost time for repair work to start but first i ve got some repair work of my own to do to a desk that needs moving and to a laptop that s misbehaving read more article 2 weeks ago the changenames co uk scam today somebody who s running a scammy personal information collection campaign hidden beneath the veneer of a buggy free deed poll service that competes with my better ethical free deed poll service emailed me to ask if i d advertise theirs for them wow read more article 3 weeks ago converting iso country codes to flag emojis did you know that there s a simple formula you can use to convert from an iso two letter country code to the emoji of the flag of that country i ve made an interactive thingy to demonstrate it and shared some other fun things i ve learned while playing around with iso 3166 and flag emoji read more article 3 weeks ago wikipedia 25 carl person as i continue my 25 consecutive days of wikipedia today s random article of the day was carl person a lawyer with an interesting history read more article podcast 3 weeks ago wikipedia 25 cirrothauma murrayi today wikipedia introduced me to a mysterious deep dwelling octopus so cool read more article podcast 4 weeks ago a selfhosted static site editor inspired by the way that nekoweb s editor nekode works i came up with a low effort way to let my eldest get started with html and css editing right from her browser with the results selfhosted directly from the household nas read more article 4 weeks ago more articles articles are traditional long form blog posts star network topologies are more common but you can still occasionally find these read more note 6 hours ago hanging out in london s theatreland attracting double takes and a handful of thumbs ups for my t shirt read more note 7 hours ago the hours of queuing pays off let s go read more note 13 hours ago back of the queue for west end live it s gonna be a long wait but hopefully worth it read more note 16 hours ago off to london for a couple of days of musical theatre fun don t wait up read more note 1 day ago 125 days since our house flooded and the damaged furniture fittings floors underfloors and now inner walls have been torn out over a third of a year since we had to move out i m optimistic that perhaps at last reconstruction work is almost ready to begin it s a long slow process and there s clearly a way to read more note 3 days ago it starts with sausage a hot dog in a bun one simple sausage put some mustard on one is it just me or are sinner sir pentious s colours reminiscent of a hot dog read more note 4 days ago i guess it s sweet that the dog has decided that i m not to leave my home office without her noticing but when the naps right behind my wheelie chair i worry she s going to get her paws run over read more note 4 days ago elon musk human ponzi scheme with thanks to mark palko for sharing this seems like a spot on observation of musk s career wouldn t it be nice if the world s first trillionaire also happened to be the world s last trillionaire read more repost original 4 days ago ad infinitum an excellent article by matthias ott describes google s promised ai first search experience which dispenses with search results entirely and just uses an llm plus sponsored content seamlessly woven in keeping you entirely within the search giant s ecosystem and minimising how much they cite their sources as you might imagine i have some opinions too read more repost original 5 days ago new social media restrictions despite being parody diamond geezer s new age gating which e g asks for personal information but obviously doesn t actually block access to the site somehow perfectly straddles the line between invasive and ineffective in exactly the same way that i expect the uk s legal implementation will manage in a year or two read more repost original 6 days ago making another attempt at learning to tango this time at a more beginner more local class it s still super hard but he makes me question whether i even know how to walk let alone dance but i love it so much read more note 1 week ago this morning i had a lovely meeting with andreas marakis who s researching the sociological impact of the web of the 1990s on people who experienced it first hand i m seeing more and more interest in this period even surprisingly among people too young to be nostalgic about it as the countercultural web renaissance tiptoes out of the shadows and encourages newcomers to take their first steps in building their own web identity with html css and maybe javascript anyway chatting to andreas was great and it reminded me of quite how grateful i am to have gotten to experience a lot of these seminal technologies when they were at their newest and most experimental read more note 1 week ago is midnight in the middle of the night niki wondered whether midnight is actually the middle of the night and discovered that it pretty much is i explain that this is because he s in berlin which sits very close only about 6 minutes out from the solar utc 1 read more reply 1 week ago i want my friends to have blogs too daniel loves blogs and loves blogging but wishes that more of the people in his real life blogged too i get it daniel read more repost original 2 weeks ago more posts of all kinds articles checkins notes reposts dan q 1998 2026 except where stated how to use powered by privacy read articles 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