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When I saw today's #RPGaDay2026 prompt was charm, I laughed, scratched my head, and sat here thinking about it. You see, I'm not a very charming person in real life. I'm a very forgettable person with the personality of a rock. This prompt gave me some thinking to do from a game developer's perspective.
The longer I've worked on building my game, the more I've realized that charm and charisma aren't exactly the same thing, and that's an important distinction to make during game development…
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JAG’s Workshop
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Emma Roth, writing for The Verge:
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov blames an extortionist for planting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in a public chat to get the app temporarily removed from Apple’s App Store on Monday night. “Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us,” Durov says in a post on X. “This creates a potential systemic risk for every mobile app that hosts user-generated content. If an app used by more than a billion people can be removed from the App Store without pr…
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I am on the search for another White Whale in Warframe. I want to build a Burston Prime. I need four parts to build the Burston Prime. I have three of them, the blueprint, the stock, and the receiver, but am missing the barrel to make the gun. You know how I can get that barrel? From cracking one (1) specific Relic, and it isn’t even guaranteed to drop from said Relic.
I could trade for it, I could figure out how to work Warframe Market to buy the part for the Platinum I have built up. I don’t n…
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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.
Dictionary is a data structure in Python that in other contexts and languages is called an associative array, akey-value store or a map. It’s a handy and efficient data structure for when you need to store and retriev…
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It's a day late but I've answered the Blaugust group project prompt: 'Tell us all about your very first blog!'
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Lately I´ve been sharing my 3DS with a sibling, wanting to get a second one for her this led me to the chaos of the second hand market, here are my thoughts.
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I have been using a Huawei smart watch for a few years now. I haven’t minded it but it hasn’t properly integrated with any of my other tech for a while. When I got the watch new, I was still an Android user and the watch worked fine. But, for better or worse, I came back to iPhone and the watch became less useful.
I was inspired by Matt Birch’s micro apps and thought about developing an app for my Huawei watch but it’s not possible and Apple doesn’t allow the watch to access anything useful from…
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I recently repaired the Micro USB socket of an old Raspberry Pi; the one through which the Pi receives it's power. It was a bit of a fiddly soldering job because the connections for the USB port are tiny. Because of this, I briefly considered just sending the power straight into the 5V and GND pins on the Pi's pin header. I've seen projects where a Raspberry Pi was powered through it's GPIO pins, and even ones where the Pi itself wasn't connected to a power supply at all and instead to a powered…
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The next expansion for the MMORG, The Lord of the Rings Online, was announced on the 1st August, via the gaming website MMORPG.The Wolves of Mordor, which will launch later in the year, appears ambitious in scope as it will include two new game systems as well as the obligatory story update. This expansion takes place in Draugardh located in the North East of Mordor, beyond the Plateau of Gorgoroth. It includes the new zones of Heledhris, Parth Rhavas and Nan Ogol. These vary environmentally ran…
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Sometimes a piece of media comes along that makes you think “Gee, did they make this just for me?” and while the answer is obviously “NO”, for me personally Star Driver feels that way.
It released back in 2010 and was created by Studio Bones, known at the time in the west in particular for Fullmetal Alchemist, Soul Eater and Ouran High School Host Club.
The anime is a beautifully animated combination of mecha, song pieces and magical boy. Yup. Boy. The titular boy Takuto is the Ginga Bishounen (…
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Sal's Blog
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TLDR: I migrated my blog. Please email me if you notice anything's amiss!
What should you do when you’re busy and have been spending too much time on your blog lately? Why, dive head first into a completely unnecessary SSG migration, of course!
I had Hugo on the brain last night for somewhat valid, somewhat flimsy reasons:
I used Hugo in the past and liked it.
11ty’s fast, but Hugo’s wicked fast.
I’ve been writing more Golang code lately.
While I’m fine with JavaScript and enjoy TypeScript, rely…
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JAG’s Workshop
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OpenAI, in a blog post on Monday entitled “Apple is getting this wrong”:
Apple is one of the greatest companies of all time, and built a reputation for obsessing over the smallest details. This careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit sadly doesn’t live up to that reputation.
I’ve neglected to write about this surprisingly venomous lawsuit on JAG’s Workshop. In case you missed it, Apple sued OpenAI for allegedly poaching employees and stealing trade secrets. Among the many allegations is…
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A trip into the history of my website and when it changed from a collection of animated gifs and text into something resembling a blog.
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For those few who follow this blog, you may have noticed an uptick in posts. I made a decision that I needed to either blog regularly or give it up. The algorithm heard me and presented me with Blaugust 2026, a daily blogging challenge held each August that has been around since 2014. The original … Continue reading My Blogging History →
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My very first blog
Today's group project opportunity in the Blaugust event is the following writing prompt:
I started my very first blog on 7 December 2005, more than 20 years ago. I was a university student back then, full of optimism and energy. I started blogging just days before my very first book was published. Yes, I wrote two books, maybe three. I'll post about them later. Promise.
I mostly posted about writing, university life, and random thoughts. As I was one of the first students to t…
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With this episode, number 72, Michael Branson Smith and I are 4 films deep into our series on international independent films from the 90s. We started down under with Muriel’s Wedding (1994), then we headed up to Tehran for The White Balloon (1995) then on to working class England with Life is Sweet (1990) then we jumped over to 1920s China for Raise the Red Lantern (1991).
Like many of the films from this series, I first experienced them as a young 20-something in independent movie houses in an…
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I Thought I Had a Consistency Problem
I'm going to unload a little more today.
I have been wrestling with whether or not to shut Patreon down. Since Christmas 2025, all I’ve done there is bleed paid subscribers. I was growing steadily and absolutely thrilled about it. I went from 0 to 500 dollars monthly last year, which isn’t the most amount of money, but it was exciting to feel like I was on my way to making it as a self-employed numerologist working online, and that small subscription income…
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Rule number one when vibe coding is not to take yourself or your code too seriously. If you do, it’s not vibe coding; it’s software development, or vibe engineering.
When it comes to licensing your slop code, we should first discuss whether it can even be licensed. But that is a complicated question, so let’s not worry about it.
To embrace this uncertainty about licensing, or whether the project works at all, we should not pick a boring licence like MIT or GPL, as it is unclear whether those can…
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Speaking of changes and of Wholesome Games, I am always looking for ideas on what I can play with our daughter or what I can let her play on her own once in a while.
She is not allowed to play anything with violence, anything that isn’t age-appropriate, or games with online interactions. It should also not be a game that uses predatory tactics to urge her to continue playing.
Her favourite game right now is “Bluey – Let’s Play” (the free mini games, not the expensive monthly subscription). She l…
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unique personalities of cats: focusing on IttyBitty's quirky and changing nature as an affectionate rescue
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I've used a few different recipe apps and websites in my lifetime. They were never quite right, but they did the job. I purchased my previous favourite app (I think for 5-8$ at the time? This was probably 7 or 8 years ago) for its pro features and ad-free use. But of course, as with so many things these days, it started to get worse. They eventually switched to a subscription model (thankfully my previous purchase was grandfathered in so I wasn't forced into a subscription). But it was the begin…
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I had a different blog post in mind for today, and I still plan on typing that one out tomorrow, but I would be remiss if I didn’t write this one out instead, short as it may be. After all, I did say earlier that I reserve the right to put out quickie blogs!
You see, I always like it when one of my favorite MMOs gets an influx of all-new players, and today marks the start of the game’s arrival to the Nintendo Switch 2 system, and just like when the game arrived to the Xbox before it, I’m looking…
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Venture into dungeons to gather ingredients and cook up a storm in your restaurant to pay off a lot of Debt!
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Preface
After reading a few posts from fellow bloggers about how much it costs them to run their site, I am intrigued as to how much I am actually paying for this passion project of mine! Check out the last section for more examples.
Note
The requirements for hosting a personal site and a commercial one is vastly different. Everything mentioned on this page applies to the former. There’s also a multitude of ways to host a blog, and everyone’s tech stack is different, so keep that in mind.
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Andreas posted some interesting thoughts, wondering if maybe we are too paranoid when it comes to AI slop. Please, go read his words first, I only intend to add to the conversation here, not to put him in an uncomfortable position or something, we are friends and everything after all—even if he barely mentions my posts on his Link Dumps… 😭
As someone who posts to the internet and exposes a fair chunk of my thoughts out in the open for everyone to read. It is undeniable that, as free as we are, w…
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I had a fun day today! I went to work, and then went to a new meetup. This is something I found out about the day before - the alumni of a programmer's retreat in NYC in my city have a weekly meetup apparently, where techies get together and do remote work, and afterwards they discuss interesting problems faced during their work/side projects.
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Ask a hundred WoW players which expansion was the best and a good chunk of them, without hesitating, will say Wrath. I'm one of them. I've played every expansion since, and none of them ever quite got back to what Northrend felt like in 2009.
Part of it was the setup. TBC pulled me in, but Wrath was the first expansion I got to walk into on day one, already max level, already ready, no old-world slog standing between me and the new stuff. You picked a boat to Howling Fjord or a zeppelin to Borea…
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The Friendly Necromancer
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My word I'm having so much fun delving into the newest incarnation of EverQuest. Yesterday I advanced myself to level 16 and explored a bunch of old zones that I really just kind of ignored before . . . because I could. When I started, I was a high elf locked in the whole Greater Faydark area and grew up being lost in that whole area over there.
Now I'm playing as an Iksar in the Deserts of Ro in some strange zone called New Sebilis. WHAT? That zone isn't listed in my EverQuest Atlas: The Maps o…
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Ubergeek Kelly's World- Life, technology, science, rants
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This is my response per the August 4th Group project prompt from Krikket => https://nerdgirlthoughts.game.blog/2026/07/23/blaugust-2026-calendar-weekly-prompts-group-projects/
Arguably you are looking at my first blog: (Ubergeek) Kelly’s World, first introduced in April of 2003. I’ve talked about my blogging history in previous Blaugust events, but this time I’ll try to aim a bit more specifically at the when and what of things.
Not a blog: Geocities (1996 – 2003)
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I cannot understand Mozilla.
We took time off of X, but we’re back. The internet is changing again, so we’re here as an independent voice for our users and the open internet.
@firefox · Jul 20, 2026
They either do not know who their user base is, or they know but those are not the users they want.
I care about the open web and I care about privacy. I'm much more in the LLMs are a tool camp, but I still don't want "AI features" shoved down my throat or baked into everything these organizations ar…
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Making videos was one of those things I said I’d never do. Until I suddenly created a YouTube channel.
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My First Blog
Why yes, I will use that image so I don’t have to find one myself. Thank you!
The Blaugust community topic today is about your first blog. I actually think of this site as a continuation of my first blog, in a way. It’s all just “my thoughts that I put online” to me. A sort of live memoir.
This page from the Internet Archive isn’t really “my blog” but it’s one of the first things I ever published on the Internet. It’s a Quake match update on a web page owned by the sysop of the Qua…
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There is a sentiment that some “light” usages of AI are okay because it simply reduces the friction a bit on content creation. For example, Kelly writes:
But if AI can be helpful for things like blog production. I know, for example, that blog posts with an image are several times more likely to attract someone’s attention than one without an image. I lack time and artistic skill to create my own images, but I can craft a prompt and get a suitable illustration in seconds. This is hard to ignore,…
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I can't say I had any plans to do the Community Builder thing for Blaugust this year. The very fact that I'm calling it "the Community Builder thing" suggests a distinct lack of empathy with the concept. I'm not a great one for achievements or badges or titles, although I do quite like a title in a game. I'm not that struck on socializing either although I'd say I was social enough. Emphasis on "enough". Just enough. Not more.
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Replying to this comment: https://substack.com/@florianlohse/note/c-307765760?r=1lmu7t Not liking any friction to posting is the whole reason I built the custom setup. I now automatically post to bluesky and mastodon… I even have a copy to clipboard button but the effort it takes to open this site and post is too much, so I’ve just not been posting here. If they had an API I would. On the exhilarated feeling: I think that’s from impending likes and engagement as opposed to the posting. I’ve noti…
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In 2002, I started a sketch of a fictional Astronesian pidgin, reflecting a then emerging obsession of mine: conlangs that used all 26 Latin letters. I wouldn’t return to Pidanjinu until 2021-2022, working on it 15+ minutes a day, at which point it became the conlang that I am the most proud of: Muna Lingi. Here are its humble beginnings.
Vowels
Pidanjinu has just five vowels, each written by a single letter.a – as in ‘father’e – as in ‘pet’i – as in ‘pizza’o – as in ‘Poe’ or ‘poet’u – as in ‘tu…
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(This is my fourth post in a series of entries I’m using to participate in Blaugust for 2026.)
I recently read an article with a similar name to this one that I’ll not link here, because it made me angry enough to draft a rebuttal.
This is not that rebuttal. This isn’t even a tribute.
Instead, this is my own list, different from the other one, and limited to five things simply to keep this post shorter than a novel. I could go on. I could nitpick. I would rather not invite that poison into my so…
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Quick housekeeping note: Reply notifications are now enabled in the comments. If you’ve commented in any of the previous days comments have been active, I have replied, but you probably didn’t see them. From now on you should be notified about replies if you leave the box ticked.
My earliest console gaming memories are on my granddad’s Master System. Since getting into retro handhelds, I’ve been revisiting the Sega Master System games from my childhood. Check out Part 1 for more!
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Usually post my streaming schedule on Mondays, but again was a bit of a busy Sunday and Monday, so I posted it late and why not share it here also, get some plans and recaps posted from time to time. Easier for people to navigate all the content on different platforms and in different formats this way plus easier to catch some of that live when it comes to streaming. Can always find my streaming schedule on Twitch (feature that barely anyone uses I feel).
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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.
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On the last day of GenCon, my friend asked me how I’d rate my first-ever gaming con experience from one to ten, and I mentally scored each event I attended before giving an average score overall. I ended up somewhere between three and four overall, which kind of felt like a huge waste of money. There are a lot of missteps I took like taking risks on events based on their descriptions which ended up not being accurate (ex: a “LARP-lite” experience ended up just being a series of childish carnival…
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I had a migraine this morning that really threw me for a loop. Then I spent the afternoon and evening dealing with a different kind of headache: getting my phone number transferred to a new(ish) phone.
We picked up a Fairphone 4 a few years ago as sort of a hedge in case the electronics industry and/or tariffs and/or international trade went bonkers and one of our phones died. (We weren’t expecting all three.) The teenager used it for a bit before we bought him a phone that was closer to what he…
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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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I recently visited my local public library and got a library card.
I walked in and sheepishly explained to the nice librarian that yes, I used to have a card (issued in 1994, when I was but a wee lad) but alas: it's gone missing. No, I don't remember my card number either. And no, I really haven't used the library system in a while. She seemed slightly amused, which I appreciated, because I thought the whole thing was a bit funny too.
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As it turns out I was purged due to ina…
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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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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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So, I’m taking part in Blaugust again. I’m not even going to try to do 30 this month. I’ll be happy with 5 or 10. But this is #1, so it’s a start.
The last time I wrote something, I talked about how I was considering going back to music subscription services simply because I missed their music discovery options. Self hosting was just not doing it for me in that regard. I really didn’t want to go back to paying for music, though. I have spent well over a year getting my own library up and running…
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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,…