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It's February, which means that (here in the UK) it's LGBT+ History Month. And it feels like this year, it's more important than ever to remember our country's queer history. In 2015, the UK was ranked first place in ILGA Europe's annual "Rainbow Map" study of LGBT rights in 50 countries of https://danq.me/2026/02/07/lgbt-history-month/
A week or so ago, Terry Godier - who's been thinking a lot about UX assumptions lately - argued that the design of most feed readers produces an effect called "phantom obligation". He observes that the design of feed readers - which still lean on the design of the earliest feed readers, which https://danq.me/2026/02/06/phantom-obligation-vs-freshrss/
This article is probably "safe for work" (depending on your workplace). It makes reference to a popular pornographic website and the features of that website. It contains screenshots, but the porny bits are blurred. The links are all safe. Verify your age After Pornhub introduced age check to https://danq.me/2026/02/04/gamified-pornography/
What can I make it do? It's been said that when faced with a new piece of technology, a normal person asks "what does it do?", but a hacker asks "what can I make it do?". This kind of curiosity is integral to a hacker mindset. I can trace my hacker roots back further than my first https://danq.me/2026/01/30/rm-nimbus/
I have a credit card with HSBC: you know, the bank with virtue-signalling multiculturalism in their ads. Not long ago I received a letter from them telling me that emails to me were being "returned undelivered" and they needed me to update the email address on my account. "What's https://danq.me/2026/01/28/hsbc-dont-understand-email/
I just needed to spin up a new PHP webserver and I was amazed how fast and easy it was, nowadays. I mean: Caddy already makes it pretty easy, but I was delighted to see that, since the last time I did this, the default package repositories had 100% of what I needed! Apart from setting the https://danq.me/2026/01/21/php-caddy-debian-13/
As I lay in bed the other night, I became aware of an unusually-bright LED, glowing in the corner of my room. Lying still in the dark, I noticed that as I looked directly at the light meant that I couldn't see it... but when I looked straight ahead - not at it - I could make it out. This p https://danq.me/2026/01/19/peripheral-vision/
This is a blog post about things that make me nostalgic for other things that, objectively, aren't very similar... When I hear Dawnbreaker, I feel like I'm nine years old... ...and I've been allowed to play OutRun on the arcade cabinet at West View Leisure Centre. My swimming lesson has finished, https://danq.me/2026/01/15/nostalgia-music-and-computers/
Clive Barker's Imajica has long been one of my favourite fantasy novels. The heft of the single-volume edition renders it both unwieldy and intimidating, which is probably why my most recent reading of it was only the fourth time I've enjoyed it from cover-to-cover. But enjoyed it I did, and I'm s https://danq.me/2026/01/13/imajica-by-clive-barker/
I am tired. For a couple of years I've been blaming it on iron-poor blood, lack of vitamins, diet, and a dozen other maladies. But now I've found out the real reason: I'm tired because I'm overworked. The population of the UK is 69 million, of which the latest census has 37 million "of working https://danq.me/2026/01/09/why-i-am-so-tired/
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