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This is a Blaugust 2026 blog post.
I have a moderately sized home automation network, running Home Assistant. I support devices on WiFi, Z-Wave, Zigbee, and Matter/Thread. I am using the Nabu Casa ZBT-2 Thread radio for these devices.
Matter has not been a delightful experience. Yet, recently, when I’ve added new devices, I’ve opted for Matter.
Initially, I was in pairing hell. New devices almost never added. But I got over that.
Turns out that Thread requires IPv6 networking and I had that disa…
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Weekly Whaaa…?
I use the ISO weeks from Monday to Monday, so ISO Week 2026-W31 is the week of 2026-07-27/2026-08-02.
Backyard Bounty of the Week
Over the Fourth of July weekend we picked up a few herbs and other plants for our backyard container garden.
It’s now a (notably smoky) month later and the pepper plant (named Pablo, naturally as it’s a poblano) has already doubled in size. It’s now at least a foot above the tomato cage it’s been climbing like a ladder. We’re letting the two delicious-l…
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Just a little story about how I came to own a Divorce Ring, prompted by seeing mention of divorce rings on another blog that I read.
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As you can probably guess by the date on this very first Blaugust 2026 post, I am not intending to shoot for the post-every-day-of-the-month goal this year. As in previous years, my goal is to blog more often than “oh … Continue reading →
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When the events I share on my weeknotes are few and far between, it’s often because I wrote a lot of posts already talking about stuff that was interesting to me during the week, so, yeah it happens sometimes! In any case, this is some of the other stuff that happened between July 28 and August 3, 2026!
📅 In case you missed it, I joined Blaugust for 2026, a month long event where the point is to write and participate as much as you want! Of coures, I’m going for the full 31 posts, though there a…
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If you can't tell, I've been trying to scratch an itch. What is this itch exactly? To be honest with you, I don't know the specific answer to that. I just know what I've been orbiting and circling:
I love trying to solve the existential problem that is our (read: humanity's) relationship with technology. I love contributing to the digital commons and using my web development skills to give back and try to create things that are useful to others. I love asking the question "what do we owe each ot…
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Woah. I only just experienced Path of Fire within the past year or 2, despite it being out for almost 9 years now. But it’s new to me and I played it, so that’s something.
Yesterday’s post was a stark reminder to me that, yes, I’ve been blogging on this site now for 14 years. 14 years! Over that time I’ve had a ton of changes in my life from jobs to cars to kids to my hair turning grey and yet here I still am. Tapping away into the void. It’s pretty obvious I’ve become more jaded over the years,…
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I joined Blaugust this year again. This site was mainly a blog before, so I'm giving it a new go this year with a fresh look.
This year will be a bit slower, as I am more than often pretty beat and tired; Europe is undergoing one of the worst heatwaves I've ever witnessed: Hot temperatures above 35°C all day, reaching highs like 40°C and not really cooling down during the night... a rather unpleasant unexperience.
That said, I will shortly present what you can expect on this blog, and some curre…
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Bongo Twisty
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For Blaugust2026 I have anchored to this page published by Krikket on her blog Nerd Girl Thoughts for reminders and ideas on ways to participate. Very helpful when I am feeling inclined to dismiss every idea I have because (insert any reason that comes to mind).
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The first blog I created was in 2000 and on a site called Cosgrove Capers. The name was taken from the block of flats in Hackney that we lived in at the time - Cosgrove House.
The aim was t…
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Juha-Matti Santala - Community Builder. Dreamer. Adventurer.
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Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is to write a blog post every day of the month.
Python is a great language for writing scripts that are executed from the command line. I’m a big fan of command line interfaces and love building them for all sorts of needs both personally and when I’m part of a tea…
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My Third Blaugust entry, In Which my Gardening Adventures Lead me to find a very pleasant suprise.
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Today’s post is part of the Blaugust 2026 Group project, which features a series of writing prompts set for specific dates throughout the month. The idea being that everyone who wishes to participate can write about the same subject, riff off each other’s posts and enjoy a shared experience. In many respect having a common writing prompt levels the playing field and provides a sense of common purpose among those who take part. Today’s group project prompt asks the question “tell us all about you…
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You need to be a certain kind of beast to tackle the likes of NaNoRenO, Art Fight, game jams, even the 1 (sometimes themed) song of the day Instagram stories, and actually have a consistent portfolio to show for it-- I AM NOT that kind of beast. God knows I want it so bad. That routine. AH. DAMMIT. But hey, yeah, that's fine. I actually am just going to keep joining these repetitive challenges until it sticks because if there's something I love irregardless of the result, it's answering to a pro…
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I find myself creating this false dichotomy when it comes to where to post - should I put this on my blog or on my website?
For example, yesterday's coffee post. I could make that a blog post. But I also sort of want to make a page on my website all about coffee, because I love it so much and that sounds fun. Also, eventually that blog post will become buried and I like when I'm visiting other people's websites and they've got different pages showcasing things that they like.
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✒️ I’ve been using a Bullet Journal for 2 months now. I’m starting to get a feel for what works for me, and I realized I don’t miss most of the digital tools I was using before. I still use a digital calendar, email and Standard Notes, but I’ve been very satisfied having my to-dos in analog form.
📘 I started reading the last book of The Expanse series, “Leviathan Falls” by James S.A. Corey. I love to have these beloved series to get back to, and I might be unconsciously taking longer to read it…
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Me and my SFF PC that travelled a lot in past 3 years
A bit late, but a very important post – introducing myself. I actually lost the “About me” page in the Backupocalypse that I mentioned before, so there’s no official introduction of me outside of a little paragraph in my Twitch channel description I guess. Will return that page with “official” introduction at some point, but today is a bit free format one, because I feel like it’s not going to be the first time introducing myself during annua…
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I follow a lot of people on Mastodon and I see lots of toots fly by. Every now and then I want to find one I have seen at some point, but that is currently hard to do.
This sounds like a problem more people might have yes? Yep, and to fix that Jan Lehnardt built Searchtodon.
But there was a strong backlash. It might have been bad timing, as it was around the time of one of the mass migrations from twitter to the fediverse and people felt their old ways of doing things were threatened. Whatever t…
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I want to participate in Blaugust this year. It’s an annual event that takes place in August and focuses on inspiring folks to blog daily throughout the month. Given I was at GenCon until yesterday, I’ve already missed two days; however, I don’t have any more travel scheduled for this month, so I’ll hopefully be able to imperfectly participate quite a bit in this challenge.
I’ve known about Blaugust since 2022 (the D20 participation badges that year imprinted on my brain immediately as a TTRPG e…
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Ubergeek Kelly's World- Life, technology, science, rants
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I wrote a post a day or so ago wherein I described the standard ways to identify yourself on my WordPress blog when commenting. I did so mostly because I had heard rumours that people were having problems commenting, and I couldn’t recreate said problems. I thought explaining the process a bit might help.
Well, it did help… it helped identify some problems with my blog hosting at least. Wilhelm Arcturus from TAGN was the first to point out an issue, an error page produced that reflected his requ…
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It’s customary for participants to write an introduction, mostly for new readers rather than for those who are regulars to this blog. But, either way, I hope you find it interesting, if not, funny. So, for new readers to this blog, here we go:
I’m a viviparous mammalian, carbon-based biped.
I’ve been a military analyst, air traffic controller, and a book and magazine editor.
And yes, I still love reading. I used to read mostly scifi and fantasy but over the years have diversified into crime fict…
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Inventory Full
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Well, this is embarrassing...
Remember when I complained about not being able to remember my login details for Wuthering Waves? I wrote a whole post about it under the (entirely intentionally) click-baity title "Wuthering Waves Is Dead To Me Now." Remember how, in that post, I said "I've tried everything and every account I can think of and nothing works"?
Yes. Well. About that...
It turns out either I didn't try every account after all or else my capacity for thinking is so diminished I probabl…
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BurgeonLab: Firehose
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This week’s weeknote will be shorter than usual—because I’m trying to write a lot more this month!
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Passed my driving exam on my first go last week! 🎉 Really chuffed since the pass rate for first-timers is only around 30%. See One Take Pass for more.
Managed to only write one reply for Robert’s JulyReply event, on the last day of July.1 It’s on media ownership: Can We Still Even Own Things Any More?. Writing more replies / responses is something I want to explore more in the future!
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I dropped back into consciousness at one point yesterday (I wasn't actually gone - consciously speaking - even though it feels like it at times, coughthxADHDthxcough) and quite viscerally realized it was August. AUGUST.
This fact hits me upside the head for a couple of reasons,
It means there are only 35 days until I begin the final home stretch gathering of practicum hours to finish this MA - and that is incredibly surreal and
It's Blaugust 2026! (and I'm already two days, likely three days, be…
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Seventeen years. Somewhere between twenty-one and seventy-seven posts a year, depending on how much life was in the way. It works out to more than six hundred posts about a video game and the guy playing it, written under a name that isn't mine, for an audience some years I could count on two hands.
When people find out, they ask why anyone keeps a blog going that long with numbers like that. Fair question. Here's the honest answer.
I kept going because I never made it a job. The second a blog t…
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Aeish World Neocities
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Wow, I am so proud of myself for showing up for Blogust! I don't know if I will be able to keep this up all month, but really getting started is the difficult part (for me. And everyone else with bad executive functioning.)
I don't really know what to put here, it's barely been 24 hours since the last post. Today, I was struggling with executive functioning a little bit more than I usually do. I went to office in h…
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Ubergeek Kelly's World- Life, technology, science, rants
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Blaugust 2026 has added some rules regarding use of artificial intelligence for content included in the festival. Magi over at Indiecator had an excellent overview of his thinking on the topic, which inspired me to do a bit of my own soul searching.
Blaugust 2026 AI rules
The full 2026 rules and festival details can be found on Krikket’s post here. But the crux of the AI specific rules boils down to two sentences:
Blaugust celebrates human creativity, personal expression and the shared experienc…
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AGNES THE ALIEN's BLOG
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Blaugust #2: How To slow down
I have around 3 pages full of blog post ideas in my personal journal (ironically, one of them is to post about my personal journal), and yet, before Blaugust at least, every time I sat down to blog I always found myself forgetting every single world in the English language, all twenty six alphabet soup letters, how to grasp the concept of communication in general. I found myself going through a sort of blogger's ego death where I tried to blog and instead became the…
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Endgame Viable
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Morning! It’s a gray and dismal rainy start to this Monday morning, the start of another work week. And, for me, the start of a new work sprint.
I already regret putting the Blaugust day in the post titles. I was trying to make it easier for anyone counting, but it really looks ugly.
MRI Complete
Yesterday I drove clear to the other side of the city to get an MRI on my neck. I drove a complete circuit around the circular bypass highways around the city.
The MRI itself was uneventful, and took ab…
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NomadWarMachine
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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.
Today’s TDC is from one of those wonderful random web pages one finds while browsing through the web.
Play around with this rolling stone and share a screenshot or a video of what you create.
I played around with the sounds and chose chimes for this experiment, then used the MS snipping tool to record my screen as I ‘released’ the stone. Finally I uploaded to YouTube and added the video here. If I’d…
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Academic Aesthetic
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(This is my third post in a series of entries I’m using to participate in Blaugust for 2026.)
The very first post I ever made on this blog was about the Artchive, a still-running site where you can find countless fine art images by famous artists. When I made that I was halfway through my first year as an elementary art teacher (after 4 years of teaching high school) and in the process of getting my graduate degree.
That post – this whole website, actually – was part of that degree, as we had to…
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Courtney Rosenthal
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I had a good thing going. I was blogging regularly – weekly in fact.
My goal was a post every Tuesday. I’d start working on the post end of the week, refine it over the weekend, and push it live Tuesday morning. Each post was about something I was working on or thinking about. They tended to be researched and developed, with something of substance to say.
Except it was such a heavyweight and burdensome process, with such high expectations, eventually it all fell apart.
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In 2026, I lost several people who mattered deeply to me. The year seemed determined to make a procession of loss. One was a dear friend who had blogged faithfully since 2009; returning to the form is my way of meeting them again in a place they loved and never quite left. So, here I am.
I suppose I should probably begin with the headline: I am London-bound for graduate school.
There was an image circulating on Bluesky of a woman delivering what I can only assume was a college lecture. Behind he…
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Beyond Tannhauser Gate
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I’m not really sure how this is going to look on my site since I just updated a bunch of plugins, my theme, and actually even wordpress to their latest versions. This took a while so I ran out of the time I had set aside for ‘being creative’ today, and I still have not gotten my theme built back up the way I want it. I forgot how much of a pain this could be.
Along with fighting with my theme and layout today…and losing, I actually got a chance to go for a run for the first time in 2 weeks. With…
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Why am I doing Blaugust? Answering the week one prompts!
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I wasn’t sure I was going to say anything about Blaugust because I’m already posting a lot lately, but why the heck not. So, a belated welcome to Blaugust 2026! From the intro:
If you’re new to blogging, it’s a great opportunity to meet many cool people, get help with starting up your own website, and participate in a cool community project. If you’re a blogging veteran, it’s just the push to dust off the old site and get back into the ring again. Overall, it’s just a nice event that reinvigorat…
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Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is to write a blog post every day of the month.
Python is often described as having batteries included
The Python source distribution has long maintained the philosophy of “batteries included” – having a rich and versatile standard library which is immediately avai…
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On blogging, writing about abuse, and growing up as an artist. Also for AugusStory.
I’ve been blogging since I was….
I don’t actually know. It feels like I’ve been blogging since the big bang, and it feels like I’ve never blogged before. Baby’s first blog! Except I’ve been blogging since I don’t remember, except I remember it perfectly and I’ve been blogging since the first breath I took in 2001, except it’s really more like I’ve been blogging since I died on the operating table for a minute and…
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Blogging live from Indie Web Club yet again! Lots of pieces from my camera roll. Please click on the link (and appreciate the visuals :') )
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Beyond Tannhauser Gate
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It’s that time of year again and I am making another run at Blaugust. Maybe 2026 will be the year I get back into regular posting, maybe not, but at least I am giving it the ole’ college try.
Anyone looking to get in on the action should head over to the Blaugust 2026 Official Announcement page and then on to the Blaugust 2026 Signup page.
Actually, now that I see the signup page, I realize I am posting this without having signed up yet myself. I better get to that!
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Stories by Audrey Zetta on Medium
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It’s August again. The year goes by so fast. With August comes a very special event: Blaugust! It’s a month long celebration of blogging.
There are all kinds of events going on at all times in various corners of the “blogosphere,” but this is the one that really got me into the habit of blogging.
It is a bittersweet one this year. Belghast , who founded this event, tragically passed away earlier this year. I did not know him personally, so I cannot write a proper tribute, but there are others wh…