Dan Q's Things

Dan Q

Dan's personal website and blog. Centre of the Digital Daniverse.

Find Dan Q

Real-time tracking of Dan's location. Fuzzed for unauthenticated users.

Free Deed Poll

Change your name for free and without a solicitor.

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Break Into Us

Lock-breaking puzzle game.

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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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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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TRRTL

Coffee-drinking LOGO turtles.

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The Green

Where Dan and his family live.

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We Will Rock . EU

Whomp whomp tish. Whomp whomp tish.

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text/plain blog

Who said a blog needed to be in HTML, anyway?

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Mastermind Solver

Plays a smarter game of Mastermind than you, probably.

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Non-Stop Hammer Ti . me

Break it down!

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Geohashing Wiki

Adopted from XKCD, the central resource for geohashers worldwide.

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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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DNDle

Like Wordle, but you guess D&D monsters by picking attributes.

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BBC News... Without the Sport

The BBC News RSS feed with the Sports stories removed.

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Pong HW

Reimplentation of Pong designed for ultrawide video walls.

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EGXchange

Digital wallet for Emma GoldCoin.

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Monte Carlo Pi

Demonstration of using a Monte Carlo method to calculate Pi. In JavaScript.

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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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Sisyphus: The Game

Terrible implementation of a stupid board game idea

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Bodleian Advent Calendar

Interactive online advent calendar. Reveal a picture a day at a time.

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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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CSS-Driven Console Graphics

Convert a PNG image into some CSS code to inject into a browser's debugger.

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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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Steer!

Tilt-sensor/websocket based driving game. Use your mobile to steer!

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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.

LABS Comic Complete RSS Feed

Re-read the entirey of Aaron Uglum's "LABS" comic in your RSS reader.

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Google Authenticator CLI

Command-line version of Google Authenticator, powered by Ruby.

Twee2

Command-line compilation tools for Twine 2 interactive fiction.

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Power Button

Command-line tool to allow e.g. an Arduino to trigger commands on remote computers.

Mattify

If you like it, you should'a put'a hat on it.

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MegaMegaMonitor

Toolset to help members of private subreddits to find and talk to one another.

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Abnib

Community weblog aggregator powered by Jekyll.

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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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