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🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/26/enm/

Can it perhaps be time that we stop saying "ethical non-monogamy"? Nobody feels the need to say "ethical monogamy"; monogamous folks are given the benefit of the doubt and assumed to be practicing a relationship ethically. I feel
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
🆕 [Repost] The perils of doors in gamedev
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/25/the-perils-of-doors-in-gamedev/

Tom Forsyth recollects a bug that made Half-Life 2 unwinnable when built using a compiler to that supported SSE. A reminder of how weird the edge-cases in tech can be!
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
🆕 [Article] DOCTYPE
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/25/doctype/

I received my copy of DOCTYPE magazine, a genuine 'type this program in and run it'-style programming magazine but for a modern world, and enjoyed writing, debugging, playing, and then considering refining Stuart Langridge&#x
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🆕 [Note] Male Surname?
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/24/male-surname/

This form dynamically changes the labels for the Surname and Forename field based on the value of the Gender field. Wut? Because a Male Surname is totally distinct and nothing like a Female Surname, I guess?!?
November 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
🆕 [Repost] SVGs that feel like GIFs
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/24/svgs-that-feel-like-gifs/

Back in July Vincent D. Warmerdam shared a great tip on screen-recording terminals into small, scalable animated SVG files, and I only just got around to reading it. Amazing stuff!
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🆕 [Note] Happy Polyamory Day 2025
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/23/polyamory-day-2025/

Happy Polyamory Day y’all. (Plus max props to Petra without whom I’d have forgotten about it, like most years.)Closest thing I did to celebrating it was going out to the pub last night for beer and food wit
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🆕 [Article] Pushing RSS to WhatsApp (for free?)
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/23/rss-to-whatsapp/

RSS remains the gold standard for subscribing to Web content... but WhatsApp Channels/Newsletters provide another interesting opportunity for syndication. If only somebody had written an RSS-to-WhatA
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🆕 [Article] Postcards… from the Internet!
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/22/postcards-from-the-internet/

A few weeks ago I published a PO Box address to which visitors to my site can post postcards, to try to bridge the gap between my 'Internet friends' and the physical world. Today I
November 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🆕 [Repost] AI and cigarettes
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/20/ai-and-cigarettes/

Chris Ferdinandi draws parallels between people pushing 'less-harmful' AI and those promoting vaping as 'less-harmful' smoking; the latter, of course, ultimately resulted in new people taking up a
November 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🆕 [Note] 30 Years Of Notices
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/18/30-years-of-notices/

This telegraph pole in the centre of Eynsham carries the scars of hosting countless community announcements, notices, and flyers over the last 30 years. ×
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🆕 [Article] I guess I’m never paying DreamHost back
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/18/dreamhost-payback/

About 17 years ago, I stopped using DreamHost. They later decided I owed them money. I disagreed, but enjoyed watching them incredibly-slowly claw it back via the 'refer and earn' p
November 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🆕 [Article] Beige Buttons
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/17/beige-buttons/

When was the last time you saw a computer with a reset AND a turbo button? Bet it's been a while. But now, thanks to a stupid web component I made, you can see one on my website... or your own. What does it do? Nobody
November 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
🆕 [Note] Autumn Sunrise
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/17/autumn-sunrise/

Gorgeous autumn dawn this morning with a razor-sharp moon hanging above the shifting hues of the South-East. It’s going to be a cold one. (At last; it’s been an unseasonably-warm November so far!) ×
November 17, 2025 at 7:35 AM
🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q wrote note for GC88ZY9 The Devil’s Quoits
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/15/dan-q-wrote-note-for-gc88zy9-the-devils-quoits/

A local landowner has (controversially) decided to start enforcing their ownership of the land surrounding the lake at Dix Pit, and has erected new fences
November 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
🆕 [Repost] We Need to Talk About Botsplaining
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/14/we-need-to-talk-about-botsplaining/

In a wonderful blog post from last month, Stephanie describes the scourge of Botsplaining. Here's my experience of it.
November 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
🆕 [Note] Only Murders in the Building Season 5
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/13/mitbs5/

I really liked Only Murders in the Building. It started with a fun premise. It grew into something hilariously self-aware. I'd recommend it. But man, the fifth season had the most-disappointing reveal/con
November 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
🆕 [Article] How I Learned the Pythagorean Theorem
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/13/pythagorean-theorem/

I clearly remember the day I first learned the Pythagorean theorem, because I had a problem I wanted to solve and a practical application that I wanted to use it on. Let's re-create the ex
November 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🆕 [Repost] Two modes of Internet use
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/11/two-modes-of-internet-use/

Tracy Durnell keeps her online- and offline- friends separate, and describes some solid reasons to do so. I appreciate her thoughts, even where I don't want to apply her conclusions to my own life.
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🆕 [Repost] The Piss Saga
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/11/the-piss-saga/

When somebody started repeatedly leaving bottles of urine on top of a utility cabinet in his neighbourhood, filmmaker Derek Milton decided to investigate. I watched the documentary he made while doing so and... I still have
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🆕 [Article] Are you closer to Ireland or Scotland?
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/10/are-you-closer-to-ireland-or-scotland/

A throwaway comment in a WhatsApp group lead me to a deep dive into geodata encoding and drawing a big old line all the way across England (and a little way across Wales!). I
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
🆕 [Repost] A chat with 19-year-old me
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/10/a-chat-with-19-year-old-me/

Giles Turnbull's written a wonderful piece, imagining a conversation with his 19-year-old self. I wonder what I'd say to myself at 19 if I bumped into him?
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🆕 [Article] Send Me a Postcard!
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/09/send-me-a-postcard/

Sure, you could leave a comment or drop me an email or say hi on Mastodon... but wouldn't it be cooler if you could send a physical postcard in response to a blog post? Let's find out together.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🆕 [Article] The Signal and the Noise is still excellent
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/05/the-signal-and-the-noise-is-still-excellent/

13 years ago I reviewed The Signal and the Noise by Pagan Wanderer Lu. Despite being knocked down at least one peg, it still stands among my top ten concept albums
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
🆕 [Article] Ten Pointless Facts About Me
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/04/ten-pointless-facts/

A 'ten questions about yourself' quiz is circulating the blogosphere, and I figured I'd join in (and wear four different hats, in the process).
November 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GCAJJP3 Kohtauspaikat – Virtual Reward 4.0
🔗 https://danq.me/2025/10/30/dan-q-found-gcajjp3-kohtauspaikat-virtual-reward-4-0/

The younger child and I nipped across for a photo while we waited for our tram to come.
October 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM