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Dan Q
Dan's personal website and blog. Centre of the Digital Daniverse.
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Find Dan Q
Real-time tracking of Dan's location. Fuzzed for unauthenticated users.
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Mastermind Solver
Plays a smarter game of Mastermind than you, probably.
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DNDle
Like Wordle, but you guess D&D monsters by picking attributes.
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text/plain blog
Who said a blog needed to be in HTML, anyway?
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Free Deed Poll
Change your name for free and without a solicitor.
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The Green
Where Dan and his family live.
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BBC News RSS Feeds (that don't suck!)
BBC News RSS feeds but with the crap (iPlayer and Sounds links, ads for the app, and duplicate entries) removed, and optionally the sports content too.
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SHA1 Length Extension Attack Demonstration
Length extension attacks are hard to understand. So I made a demonstrative explainer.
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TRRTL
Coffee-drinking LOGO turtles.
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Change Your Star Sign
This one weird trick means that you can change your star sign to any that you want!
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Fnorders
A Fnorders-generator in the style of the Fnorder by Steve Jackson Games.
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Cheatman
A game of hangman that cheats (while keeping its lies internally-consistent).
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Dan Q's Things
You're looking at it! A curated list of Dan Q's "Things" around the Internet.
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Lunar Lander
A classic Lunar Lander game.
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Axe Feather
Recreation of an 2004 Flash-based ad using modern web technologies.
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Geohashing Wiki
Adopted from XKCD, the central resource for geohashers worldwide.
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EGXchange
Digital wallet for Emma GoldCoin.
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Mattify
If you like it, you should'a put'a hat on it.
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Monte Carlo Pi
Demonstration of using a Monte Carlo method to calculate Pi. In JavaScript.
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Drawings as WordPress Comments
What if a blog comment... could be a sketch rather than text?
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CapsulePress
Opinionated Gemini/Spartan/Gopher server with a WordPress backend.
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Dan's Geocaching Reposter
Plugin and bookmarklet to streamline importing geocaching logs into your WordPress blog, PESOS-style.
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Not The Lottery
Visualise how much you're not going to win EuroMillions.
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Penney's Game
Demonstration of a non-transitive game. The computer will usually win because it has a clever strategy.
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.well-known/feeds
Proposed specification to make RSS (etc.) feeds representing an entire website easier to discover.
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Pong HW
Reimplentation of Pong designed for ultrawide video walls.
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Power Button
Command-line tool to allow e.g. an Arduino to trigger commands on remote computers.
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WordPress Post Kinds RSS Prefixer
WordPress RSS tweak to show the IndieWeb post "kind" as a prefix.
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RSSey
Anything-to-RSS converter based on headless Chrome.
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Break Into Us
Lock-breaking puzzle game.
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Twee2
Command-line compilation tools for Twine 2 interactive fiction.
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Workplace Countdown Timer
Dan used this to put a "you have X time left to ask Dan a question" countdown up after he handed in his notice at a previous job.
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LABS Comic Complete RSS Feed
Re-read the entirey of Aaron Uglum's "LABS" comic in your RSS reader.
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CSS-Driven Console Graphics
Convert a PNG image into some CSS code to inject into a browser's debugger.
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PHP4 Transparent Session Demo
PHP4 had a strange feature to try to work around the fact that cookies weren't yet universally supported.
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Bodleian Advent Calendar
Interactive online advent calendar. Reveal a picture a day at a time.
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Google Authenticator CLI
Command-line version of Google Authenticator, powered by Ruby.
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Replacement Population Growth Simulator
'Replacement' population actually results in population growth while life expectancy increases. Let me prove it to you.
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Non-Stop Hammer Ti . me
Break it down!
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We Will Rock . EU
Whomp whomp tish. Whomp whomp tish.
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Sisyphus: The Game
Terrible implementation of a stupid board game idea
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Steer!
Tilt-sensor/websocket based driving game. Use your mobile to steer!
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MegaMegaMonitor
Toolset to help members of private subreddits to find and talk to one another.
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KeePass for Opera
Plugin to enable Opera versions 12+ (but prior to the switch to the Chromium/Blink engine) to integrate with KeePass.
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Abnib
Community weblog aggregator powered by Jekyll.