Dan Q's Things

Dem Bones!

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Use your mobile phone as a marionnette controller; make the skeleton on your screen dance!

Ascending

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Up the wooden hill with you, even if you're just a pile of tumbling shapes.

Incognito Mode for Wikipedia

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Does not actually do anything for your privacy or security. Very silly.

Move the mouse across the screen

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A mouse curser [sic] and an example of extreme skeuomorphism?

Origami

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A love letter to the Weird Wide Web. My heart goes out to you.

BeepAlive

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Keep-alive code to stop speakers from going to sleep... by playing tiny inaudible clicks in the background!

<embed-html>

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A HTML web component for dynamic loading of HTML within HTML.

Alt Lightboxes

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A technique for HTML+CSS-only lightbox popups with alt-text overlays.

<beige-buttons>

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A reusable web component for adding beige Turbo and Reset buttons to your site.

Best Resolution

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

An 88×31 that says the best resolution to use a site is... your current resolution!

Change Your Star Sign

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This one weird trick means that you can change your star sign to any that you want!

BBC News RSS Feeds (that don't suck!)

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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.

EGXchange

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Digital wallet for Emma GoldCoin.

Drawings as WordPress Comments

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

What if a blog comment... could be a sketch rather than text?

Dan Q - The Podcast

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The podcast that nobody asked for. Exclusively about things that only Dan Q cares about.

text/plain blog

Thu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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

Not The Lottery

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Visualise how much you're not going to win EuroMillions.

Replacement Population Growth Simulator

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

'Replacement' population actually results in population growth while life expectancy increases. Let me prove it to you.

SHA1 Length Extension Attack Demonstration

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Length extension attacks are hard to understand. So I made a demonstrative explainer.

CapsulePress

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Opinionated Gemini/Spartan/Gopher server with a WordPress backend.

.well-known/feeds

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Proposed specification to make it easier to discover RSS (etc.) feeds that represent an entire website.

Mattify

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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

PHP4 Transparent Session Demo

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

PHP4 had a strange feature to try to work around the fact that cookies weren't yet universally supported.

Sisyphus: The Game

Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Terrible implementation of a stupid board game idea

Mastermind Solver

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Plays a smarter game of Mastermind than you, probably.

DNDle

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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

Axe Feather

Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Recreation of an 2004 Flash-based ad using modern web technologies.

Abnib Birthdays

Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Birthday reminders for Abnib folks.

ProtonMail Encryption Status for Thunderbird

Mon, 07 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Visual indicator of how your Proton Bridge <-> Thunderbird emails were encrypted.

Dan Q's Things

Mon, 07 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

You're looking at it! A curated list of Dan Q's "Things" around the Internet.

The Green

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Where Dan and his family live.

Break Into Us

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Lock-breaking puzzle game.

Where's Dan Q

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

WordPress Post Kinds RSS Prefixer

Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

WordPress RSS tweak to show the IndieWeb post "kind" as a prefix.

Power Button

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

Geohashing Wiki

Sun, 02 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Adopted from XKCD, the central resource for geohashers worldwide.

Cheatman

Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A game of hangman that cheats (while keeping its lies internally-consistent).

Workplace Countdown Timer

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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.

LABS Comic Complete RSS Feed

Thu, 25 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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

We Will Rock . EU

Mon, 17 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Whomp whomp tish. Whomp whomp tish.

Non-Stop Hammer Ti . me

Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Break it down!

TRRTL

Fri, 15 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Coffee-drinking LOGO turtles.

CSS-Driven Console Graphics

Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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

Google Authenticator CLI

Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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

Bodleian Advent Calendar

Wed, 05 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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

Pong HW

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Reimplentation of Pong designed for ultrawide video walls.

Shadows Out of Time

Tue, 06 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

A Bodleian choose-your-own-destiny story.

Dan's Geocaching Reposter

Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Plugin and bookmarklet to streamline importing geocaching logs into your WordPress blog, PESOS-style.

MegaMegaMonitor

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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

RSSey

Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Anything-to-RSS converter based on headless Chrome.

Lunar Lander

Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

A classic Lunar Lander game.

Fnorders

Wed, 06 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

A Fnorders-generator in the style of the Fnorder by Steve Jackson Games.

Steer!

Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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

Twee2

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Command-line compilation tools for Twine 2 interactive fiction.

Monte Carlo Pi

Sun, 14 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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

Abnib Blogs

Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Community weblog aggregator powered by Jekyll.

Penney's Game

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Demonstration of a non-transitive game. The computer will usually win because it has a clever strategy.

KeePass for Opera

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Plugin to enable Opera versions 12+ (but prior to the switch to the Chromium/Blink engine) to integrate with KeePass.

Free Deed Poll

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Change your name for free and without a solicitor.

DanQ.me

Sun, 27 Sep 1998 00:00:00 +0000

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