Beans have unexpectedly…
Beans have unexpectedly become one of my favourite garden treats and these Dragon Tongue bush beans, which I planted for the first time this year, are absolutely delightful! 🌱
The “B” Ark
Just this guy, you know?
Latest posts
Big year! Probably didn’t…
Big year! Probably didn’t thin enough to prevent a bust next year but we’ll see. Meanwhile, I’ve got a lot of processing to do… 🌱
https://danq.me/2026/07/02/you-dont-have-to-blog-like-me/
👨💻 ♥ https://danq.me/2026/07/02/you-dont-have-to-blog-like-me/
We’ve got ourselves an…
We’ve got ourselves an overachieving Haworthia right here.
Tour Alberta 2026
So to all my supporters, I owe you an apology: not a single update on progress toward the big event. But the least I can do is write a post-event wrap-up, so here we go!
Its so weird to me that so…
Its so weird to me that so many in software development have so much disdain for software development. I’m definitely a “means to an end” guy when it comes to coding, but in the same way that I cook because I want to eat delicious food. But I don’t disdain the work of professional chefs. There’s gotta be a whole book in exploring the growth of this phenomenon…
I used to travel with my…
I used to travel with my laptop partly to use as a media playback/streaming device but with a USB-C mini-dock that does PD passthrough and HDMI out, my Thor is as good or better! I really do just love this thing…
Oh man it’s gonna be hot…
Oh man it’s gonna be hot sauce time soon! Gonna try lacto-fermentation this time. Just gotta decide how much I want to temper the heat of these habs… 🌱
How fast can we go?
My gut kept telling me that the expected AI productivity gains claimed by the tech industry didn’t make a ton of sense, so I figured I’d just model it out. The results were both a little surprising and exactly what I expected.
https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/
This is simply fantastic. I’ve always had an idle interest in fonts and typography and, man, what a journey. https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/
The TOS episode “The Ultimate…
The TOS episode “The Ultimate Computer” aired 58 years ago. The Enterprise is chosen to test a computer which automates ship operations and Kirk finds himself being replaced. At one point McCoy remarks: We’re all sorry for the other guy when he loses his job to a machine. When it comes to your job, that’s different. And it always will be different. I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately…
https://rarecooking.com/
If there’s one very cool blog I can recommend, it’s this one. The fascinating mix of history and cooking is just so much fun. Absolutely worth checking out. https://rarecooking.com/
It is deeply funny to me that…
It is deeply funny to me that Anthropic straight up announced that Fable will quietly nerf itself if you try to use it to build a competitor. But don’t worry, it’s not because Anthropic is being anti-competitive. It’s because Fable is so incredibly powerful that it could create Skynet. It’s about safety , guys. Safety. 👨💻
I feel seen…
It’s a funny thing, quietly writing on this blog, fully understanding I’m posting in public while deep down expecting few if any will notice. And then one of those posts lands on Hacker News and this happens… 👨💻
Cannibalism
For a long time the tech industry revelled in the distruption of what it saw as old, legacy industries. But now, as AI takes over tech, we’re now starting to eat our own, and it’s dark and ironic.
Well dang I just discovered…
Well dang I just discovered IndiePass, which is the Android client I use to publish short posts and images to my blog, is now unmaintained. Do I dare adopt yet another orphaned project… 👨💻
Can we all admit that a lot…
Can we all admit that a lot of devs are into AI because we’ve made software development so utterly horrible that coding just straight up sucks now? 👨💻
Six months with AI
I timed my re-entry into the tech industry perfectly if my goal was to experience maximum chaos. I have a lot of feelings. I figured I’d write about them a bit.
And now this blog is…
And now this blog is available via Gemini. Because why not? 👨💻
This blog is now available…
This blog is now available via gopher. Now I can tick that off my bucket list. Meanwhile, still no progress on the socks I’ve had on needles for months. My priorities are inexplicable. 👨💻
It’s so frustrating that AI…
It’s so frustrating that AI is both destroying the open web by drowning it in slop and burying it in scrapers while it’s also a powerful tool for folks who want to launch their own blog or website. By making the technical challenges tractable, AI makes the indieweb more accessible than ever, and used properly can enable human communication and connection instead of destroying it. But that doesn’t…
Well, I can honestly say the…
Well, I can honestly say the Ayn Thor hype is deserved. So far, really incredible device. Fingers crossed that hinge holds up!
The Career Reset
After a ten year career in product management I made the big pivot back into the development leadership track, and you know what? I’m having the most fun I’ve had in a long time!
Now that’s a lot of crabapple…
Now that’s a lot of crabapple jelly…
Fun fact: dip bars are great…
Fun fact: dip bars are great for jelly making (in this case crabapple). I may not be using them to, you know, exercise right now, but they still come in handy!