Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. The news of his diagnosis hit all of us hard, but Dan never lost his enthusiasm or his spirit. Some of us have worked with Dan for nearly a decade, and all of us have come to know him not just as a coworker, but as a great friend. We miss Dan dearly, and will be honoring his memory more thoroughly in the days and weeks to come. Over the next few days, some of our favorite stories that Dan published here at Defector will be curated on the homepage.