About me
Hi everyone! I’m Quinn (they/them) and I’m a non-binary tech person living in beautiful Farsley, West Yorkshire.
You might know me from one of these places:
Tech
I run a small business called Fish Percolator where I provide technical leadership consultancy services and build my own products.
You might also know me from that time I ran the whole software engineering team at Citizens Advice, which was a pretty career-defining time for me.
(Psst - if you work in a technical or semi-technical team that could be happier or more productive, you will benefit from hiring my consultancy for a short period. Head over to the Fish Percolator website for more details.)
name.pn
One of my products is name.pn - a tool for you to create a nice page to explain how you like your name to be used in different contexts, how it is pronounced, and what your pronouns are (and how to use them in a sentence!) Take a look at my name.pn page https://name.pn/quinn-daley for an example!
name.pn has been a quiet hit and has over 3000 users who’ve completed their profiles, and I’d love to return to it one day. I have plans for a business version that can do things like org charts, and for it to help all tech to get better at addressing people the way they want to be addressed.
Likely2
Likely2 is a mobile challenge that prompts you to send an appreciation to someone you know every day, and build up a streak of sharing appreciations. The goal is to help you feel more gratitude, and more connected to people through a game-like excuse to contact them more.
You can play it now without installing anything or signing up for anything at https://likely2.com/!
And you can read more about Likely2 on my blog.
Pride Place
I’m the volunteer chair of Pride Place, a project by Pride of Place Leeds to permanently establish an LGBTQ+ community space in the centre of Leeds.
We ran a community centre with huge success in 2024-25 before the premises were redeveloped and we’re now temporarily working in collaboration with a great local café while we look for funding and for our forever home.
Yorkshire O.P.E.N
Since 2012 I’ve been a founder and co-organizer of Yorkshire O.P.E.N, which is a support group and community for non-monogamous people in the North of England.
I’m immensely proud of what this group has become - a vibrant, loving, diverse and self-supporting community and a testament to the idea that if you just stick at something for long enough and keep working on inclusion, eventually it becomes everything you ever dreamed of.
In the past
Some of my past projects still come up from time to time.
Leeds Tube
I was the creator of the Leeds Tube map which was a provocation that got people all over social (and traditional) media about public transport in Leeds.
I’m really excited that we are finally getting a mass transit system in West Yorkshire, and I’m sure I had nothing to do with it but I am still the top search result for “Leeds tube”!
Leeds Beer Quest
Between 2012 and 2017, along with my co-author Emily, we visited every pub in Leeds City Centre and wrote them up, from a beer-drinker’s perspective. Amazingly, the site is still up (just)!
It was a really exciting time for Leeds, with lots of now-legendary places such as Northern Monk and Bundobust opening for the first time. Leeds is barely recognisable from where it was when we started the quest, as am I … I’d rank a lot of these places very differently today!
Politics
I also used to be very active in politics, even being chair of the Leeds branch of the Green Party for a few years and standing in the general election in 2019. I’ve not left politics behind, but it’s taking a backseat for a little while!