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[Note] Monster Munch Sandwich
Experimenting with some unusual combinations in anticipation of International Crisp Sandwich Day. This one’s Roast Beef Monster Munch on Farmhouse White. (I hereby release the crisp sandwich photo into...
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[Article] Recovering from Childhood Sexual Trauma [RSS Exclusive!]
This post is secret; you can only find it via my RSS feeds (and places which syndicate them). It's okay to talk about it or link to it, though. Thanks for being part of RSS Club! Content warning: This...
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[Article] Absence/Presents
I’m probably not going to get you a Christmas present. You probably shouldn’t get me one either. All I need for Christmas is… a woolly jumper and a dog, apparently. (And I only need the latter if the...
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[Article] Reading Rolled Papyri
One of my favourite parts of my former role at the Bodleian Libraries was getting to work on exhibitions. Not just because it was varied and interesting work, but because it let me get up-close to...
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[Article] Incredible Doom
I just finished reading Incredible Doom volumes 1 and 2, by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden, and man… that was a heartwarming and nostalgic tale! Conveniently just-over-A5 sized, each of the two...
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[Article] Making WordPress Fast (The Hard Way)
This isn’t the guide for you The Internet is full of guides on easily making your WordPress installation run fast. If you’re looking to speed up your WordPress site, you should go read those, not this....
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[Article] Gemini and Spartan without a browser
A particular joy of the Gemini and Spartan protocols – and the Markdown-like syntax of Gemtext – is their simplicity. The best way to explore Geminispace is with a browser like Lagrange browser, of...
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[Note] Gemini Squared
How did I never think of accessing Gemini (the protocol) on my Gemini (portable computer) before today? Of course, I recently rehomed my Gemini so instead I had to access Gemini on my Cosmo (Gemini’s...
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[Note] Bramble
Fresh D&D campaign with some Abnib folks! I’m playing a Harengon Barbarian. I’m a fierce bunny rabbit!
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[Note] ET App
Travelling around Edinburgh by tram this weekend, I kept being advertised the “ET app”. I didn’t install the app, in case it was bundled with spyware. After all, everybody my age knows: ET phones home.
View Article[Article] My Default Apps at the End of 2023
Kev Quirk, Colin Walker, and other cool kids I follow online made it sound fun to share your “lifestack” as we approach the end of 2023. So here’s mine: my digital “everyday carry” list of the tools...
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[Article] Pen Pals Wanted
Semi-inspired by a similar project by Kev Quirk, I’ve got a project I want to run on my blog in 2024. I want you to be my pen pal for a month. Get in touch by emailing penpals@danq.me or any other way...
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[Article] Household Finances Revisited
Almost a decade ago I shared a process that my domestic polyfamily and I had been using (by then, for around four years) to manage our household finances. That post isn’t really accurate any more, so...
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[Article] It Takes Two
Lately, Ruth and I have been learning to dance Argentine Tango. Stand with both feet together on the floor? Sure, I can do that one. Let me tell you everything I know about tango1: It takes two to...
View Article[Note] The Frosted Pane
Pagan Wanderer Lu‘s new album Planets In The Wires dropped today, and I just cried my eyes out at track 5 (The Frosted Pane). It opens almost apologetically, like an explanation for the gap in new...
View Article[Note] Emoji Reactions
I added a stupid feature to my blog. On some posts, including this one, you can now send an “emoji reaction”. Y’know, for if you’re too lazy to write a comment. The available reactions vary by post....
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[Note] Tension in the Wires
Received my physical copy of Planets In The Wires today, and I must say it was really cool of Pagan Wanderer Lu to include one of Fred “Thickie” Holden’s famous Tension Sheets as a freebie.
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[Article] Length Extension Attack Demonstration
Prefer to watch/listen than read? There’s a vloggy/video version of this post in which I explain all the key concepts and demonstrate an SHA-1 length extension attack against an imaginary site. I...
View Article[Video] Length Extension Attack Demonstration (Video)
This is a video version of my blog post, Length Extension Attack. In it, I talk through the theory of length extension attacks and demonstrate an SHA-1 length extension attack against an (imaginary)...
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[Note] Freezing Fog
Gorgeous freezing fog over the fields on the school run this morning.
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[Article] FreeDeedPoll.org.uk, Punk Rock Edition
A Birmingham-based punky trio, Luxury Nan Smell, have released an EP called (Derogatory). The first track on that album? freedeedpoll.org.uk. Named in reference to my website of the same name....
View Article[Repost] I don’t want your data
The web loves data. Data about you. Data about who you are, about what you do, what you love doing, what you love eating. … I, on the other end, couldn’t care less about your data. I don’t run...
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[Note] Mental Elf Day
Christmas Jumper Day at the kids’ school. Because I’m the “embarrassing parent”, I joined in for the school run too. (Also for my meetings today, obviously.)
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[Article] Lightboxes Without JavaScript
Because I like my blog to be as fast, accessible, and resilient, I try not to use JavaScript for anything I don’t have to1. One example would be my “lightbox”: the way in which images are blown-up if...
View Article[Article] Blogging Stats
During a conversation with a colleague last week, I claimed that while I blog more-frequently than I did 5-10 years ago, it’s still with a much lower frequency than say 15-20 years ago. Only later did...
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[Note] Magician Roles
Because I work somewhere hip enough to let people tweak their job titles, mine is “Code Magician”. LinkedIn isn’t as hip as Automattic, though. That’s why they keep emailing me sector updates… for the...
View Article[Repost] The Underground Blog
theunderground.blog is an experimental blog that is only available to read through a feed reader. If you would like to read the latest posts, you can subscribe to the feed at...
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[Article] They See Me (Blog)Rolling
Tracy Durnell’s post about blogrolls really spoke to me. Like her, I used to think of a blogroll as a list of people you know personally (who happen to blog)1, but the number of bloggers among my...
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[Note] It Is Only Q
The programmers at British Gas are among the many who don’t believe that a surname can be only a single character, and their customer service agents have clearly worked around their validations (or...
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[Article] Wonder Boy
There are video games that I’ve spent many years playing (sometimes on-and-off) before finally beating them for the first time. I spent three years playing Dune II before I finally beat it as every...
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