Scatmania

To celebrate the site's 25th birthday this year, Wikipedia is encouraging/challenging people to read one Wikipedia article a day for 25 consecutive days. I felt that I could do one better than that: not only reading an article but - where I found one that was particularly interesting - to write a

https://danq.me/2026/05/14/wp25-wesley-merritt/

I woke up with this in my head and had to draw it.


https://danq.me/2026/05/12/two-croissants/

Observation:
Media franchises attract fandoms, and many get their fair share of character ‘shipping (especially of the attractive characters).
Soccer also attracts huge fandoms… but I don’t think I’ve ever seen or heard of “soccer slash” (even of the attractive players).


https://danq.me/2026/05/11/soccer-slash/

I've recently been experimenting with where I host my small and open-source static sites. In my latest experiment, I wanted to try a low-maintenance selfhosting solution. Here's what I wanted:

Pushing to the main branch of my GitHub/Codeberg/wherever repo would send a webook to my

https://danq.me/2026/05/08/wildcard-caddy-with-github-webhooks/

I got another postcard, and another new country for the senders list.



I've added it to my gallery. This one's from grubbyfox, whom I've crossed paths with on a Web forum.
It remains a huge pleasure to receive a postcard from an Internet stranger (or even somebody I already know). It's so

https://danq.me/2026/05/05/grubbyfox/

When we picked up the keys to the rental house we'll be living in while our home is repaired following the flood that forced us to evacuate, I took an initial meter reading then got in touch with super-reputable water company Thames Water to let them know the situation.



Unfortunately, Thames

https://danq.me/2026/04/30/thames-water-one-day-bill/

Folks at work have been encouraging to make more use of generative AI in my workflow; going beyond my current "fancy autocomplete" use and giving my agents more autonomy. My experience of such "vibe coding" so far has been... mixed, but I promised I'd revisit it.
One thing that these models are

https://danq.me/2026/04/26/ai-rubber-ducking/

My "commute" since moving to the Chicory House isn't much longer than it is at our regular home, but it does involve going outside. Want to see?


https://danq.me/2026/04/21/the-commute-chicory-house-edition/

For the last few years, my go-to mobile game has been FlipFlop Solitaire.
The game



The premise is simple enough:

5-column solitaire game with 1-5 suits.
23 cards dealt out into those columns; only the topmost ones face-up.
2 "reserve" cards retained at the bottom.
Stacks can be

https://danq.me/2026/04/18/flipflop-solitaires-deck-generation-secret/

Jeremy Keith posted his salary history last week. I absolutely agree with him that employers exploit the information gap created by opaque salary advertisement, and I think that our industry of software engineering is especially troublesome for this.
So I'm joining him (and others) in choosing to

https://danq.me/2026/04/15/my-salary-history/