Episodes 27
Avg. Duration 7m
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Since Jul 2021
Latest Episode Jan 2026

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44%
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danq.me

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About This Podcast

A podcast nobody asked for about things only Dan cares about. A spin-off of the blog of Dan Q, who's been making random stuff on the Internet since the 1990s.

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Nostalgia, Music, and Computers

Jan 15, 2026 18m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2026/01/15/nostalgia-music-and-computers/It turns out that I get nostalgic about technology in the same way as I get nostalgic about music. Here's…

Why I Am So Tired

Jan 09, 2026 3m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2026/01/09/why-i-am-so-tired/After dusting off and modernising a joke I first read in a chain email from 1996, I can tell you conclusively that the…

Actually, Yes! (that IS what my birth certificate says)

Dec 18, 2025 5m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2025/12/18/actually-yes/There's a certain kind of person who, upon hearing my unusual name, immediately asks whether that's what's on my birth…

The Beer Token

Sep 04, 2025 11m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2025/09/04/the-beer-token/Thanks to the success of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, we can never forget quite how much beer you used to be…

Hexagonal Cheese Scones

Aug 28, 2025 1m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2025/08/28/hexagonal-cheese-scones/A poem about the shape of a scone.00:00 Intro 00:30 Hexagonal Cheese Scones 01:13 Outro

Google Shared My Phone Number!

May 21, 2025 6m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2025/05/21/google-shared-my-phone-number/When people started calling my personal mobile number with questions about a voluntary organisation I'm…

Delivery Songs

Mar 29, 2025 7m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2025/03/29/delivery-songs/In the UK, ice cream vans are perhaps the only delivery service with their own jingle. Turkey and India are WAY ahead of…

Work Slippers

Mar 14, 2025 5m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2025/03/14/work-slippers/Last month, the dog ate my slippers, and in the week it took me to replace them my work productivity took a dip.…

AI vs The Expert

Feb 28, 2025 8m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2025/02/28/ai-vs-the-expert/Inspired by an 11-year old comedy sketch, I asked a GenAI to solve an unsolvable programming problem... and (for at…

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Feb 27, 2025 5m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2025/02/27/a-psalm-for-the-wild-built-by-becky-chambers/While I've been ill I read A Psalm for the Wild-built by Becky Chambers, which had been on…

God’s Adviser

Feb 06, 2025 7m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2025/02/06/gods-adviser/When I was a young child I took part in a school nativity play, and was so insistent about picking holes in the theological…

International Volunteer Day

Dec 05, 2024 12m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2024/12/05/ivd-2024/It's International Volunteer Day, and thanks to being on sabbatical I got to spend most of the day volunteering with Three…

Stuck in a Lift

Nov 29, 2024 9m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2024/11/29/stuck/About twenty years ago, I spent three hours playing I-Spy in a broken-down elevator. And in doing so, I learned two things about my…

Sadder Than Fiction

Nov 16, 2024 7m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2024/11/16/fiction/There's a short story that I tried on-and-off to write, but I've now given up on it. The concepts it makes light of all feel a…

How I Learned to Enjoy Pickled Onion Monster Munch

Oct 24, 2024 4m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2024/10/24/munch/I like pickled onions. And I like the vinegar flavouring and the onion flavouring from salt & vinegar and cheese & onion…

Firsts and Lasts

Oct 14, 2024 4m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2024/10/14/firsts-and-lasts/I was listening to the bats flying silently above me while I watched the Perseids, the other month. When was the last…

WP Engine’s Three Problems

Sep 26, 2024 11m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2024/09/26/wp-engine/Matt Mullenweg kicked off a battle of words between Automattic and the WordPress Foundation and hosting company WP Engine.…

2024 in Videogames

Aug 27, 2024 12m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2024/08/27/2024-in-videogames/With my busy schedule, I appreciate a video game that I can pick-up-and-drop at will and a prefer depth rather than…

So… I’m A Podcast

Aug 22, 2024 10m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2024/08/22/dan-q-the-podcast/As you might have already noticed, I started a podcast. Let's take a look (or listen!) into how and why I adapted my…

The Elegance of the ASCII Table

Jul 21, 2024 15m

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2024/07/21/ascii/ASCII, a standard whose legacy defines to this day how most of the letters and numbers in your computer get encoded into ones and…

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