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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,…
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It’s almost been a week since Everquest Legends officially released. I have a bad habit of waiting to long to start writing about a game and it feels like I’m about on that cusp for this one. I’ve been playing almost everyday, making slow but steady progress.
I come to EQL without the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia. In 1999, I was in second grade and I’m pretty sure I wasn’t even aloud on the internet. The most I used the family computer for at the time was playing with MS paint and pretending…
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Bookmarked: Pandoc - twenty-years-of-pandoc Round of applause for the software keepers. Pandoc simplified so much and continues to be a robust and reliable tool for document wrangling.
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vibrant digital acrylics as part of Peggy Dean's retreat, reflecting on personal feelings and the pursuit of a perfect day amid humor and pets
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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.
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Emma Juettner's Blog
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I like public transit and I like music, but I especially like music about public transit. In no particular order, here are some of my favorite transit tunes.
The Bus Is Late
If you're an avid audio drama listener, you may recognize this first one as the Weather from an early episode of Welcome to Night Vale. "The Bus Is Late" by Satellite High is actually just one of an entire EP of songs about the bus. Another favorite track of mine from the album is "A Girl Who Loves Buses Too." I, too, am loo…
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I try not spend too much time dunking on people I disagree with. I don't think it's a particularly productive pastime, and there are better things I could do with my evening. But I am particularly mad about the AI-ified state of the world today for personal reasons, so I'm going to blow off some steam with a little bit of commentary.
If you don't know what Gas Town was, you can read Steve Yegge's original post about it here. The short version is, it was a vibe coding orchestrator built earlier 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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The Ghastly Mirror
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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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Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
If this doesn’t scratch your nerd-itch then I don’t know what to do with you.
Tokenomics are Coming
I, like so many of you, am tired of the constant barrage of AI news and discourse but this is still worth a read.
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
Same as above, but anything Ludicity writes is so fun to read I don’t care what the topic is.
I Hate The Way We Talk Online
I resonate with every single word of this post.
I Love Luxuriating…
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Recently a person I'm following on Mastodon posted a picture of two cats. It was cute and kind of funny. I saw it, chuckled and forgot about it.
But then someone replied that they ran the picture through an AI checker and according to this the picture was very likely AI generated.
So the original poster apologised for not checking whether or not the picture was AI generated slop and to make up for their blunder, posted a different cat picture that wasn't AI generated (hopefully).
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I have been seeing lots of fun collages of book covers showing what people read during the month and decided I needed to make one for July. Not surprisingly, I headed to Canva where I found a plethora of reading tracker templates. They all made it easy to copy, paste and resize the book covers … Continue reading July Reading →
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Kyle Orland at Ars Technica writes about the expanding trend of physical console game discs and cartridges that require internet connectivity to play, as tracked by the DoesItPlay organization:
Thus far, a full 27 percent of the physical releases they’ve tested require some sort of download to fix game-breaking bugs or obtain core game content that is not stored on the physical release itself. That ratio balloons to 34 percent for tested PS5 games and 50 percent for those on the Xbox Series X.
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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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A Library Without Walls
My grandfather's library
I grew up among books. Both of my parents are avid readers. My sister is a book lover too. When she has time, she posts amazing articles about books and book series on plenty of different topics. It's easy for her: she reads at an incredible speed. Her blog, Katherine's Bookstore is in Hungarian, but even with a browser's translation, it's a treasure trove.
My maternal grandfather’s library always fascinated me. It was a space where every part of…
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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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In my last post, I mentioned that I prefer playing Wholesome Games nowadays. I am aware that there is no one definition for what a Wholesome Game is.
I mostly use this term for games that give me a cozy comfortable feeling with no stress, which means usually no time limits. What I also love is games that do not focus on violence. Or one of my personal pet peeves: Solving any and all issues with violence.
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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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🎞 watched “The Odyssey” at the Metreon in 70mm IMAX on opening weekend, and mostly enjoyed it. No spoilers in this post.My pal Rohit (@rohit.khare.org) had bought tickets last year, had a spare, and invited me along last minute. After an early dinner at Cha Cha Cha (@chachachasf.com) we made our way to the Metreon.There was a line to get in. I have never before seen a line merely to get into the IMAX theater. We only missed maybe 1-2 movie trailers.Our seats were in the front row, only a few sea…
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The Friendly Necromancer
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So, I wasn't fully tuned in to this Everquest Legends release that happened just a few days ago. I mean, I saw the e-mail from Daybreak and skimmed a few blogposts (enough to know Tipa was playing). I even logged on to Twitch and watched several streamers play for about 20 minutes. I hate to admit this, but watching the Twitch streams bored me enough that I thought I wouldn't play the game (it just wasn't that exciting to watch despite the personalities). I'm blaming Tipa. Talking to her over Di…
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I literally have scores of blog posts about my film podcasting adventures that I’ve yet to publish. For nearly two years now, I have been co-hosting the Family Pictures Podcast, and we’re closing fast on 80 episodes. This spring I started a second podcast, Couch to 4K, with Mike Caulfield. It’s like watching and talking about movies is my new day job, and I love it. The only issue is I’m not feeding nearly enough of that back into the bavablog, and that pains me to no end. Somehow I feel that if…
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Brennan wrote about phoneblogging and I have thoughts! Mostly: If you took away my tablet and laptop so I had only my phone it would make no difference to my blogging or any other writing output.
I almost exclusively phoneblog. If I'm on my laptop or tablet when the mood strikes me to write then I will but I don't wait until then, or get them out deliberately.
I've written CSS on my phone and worked on my theme. I've researched, written, formatted, linked, and published so many posts entirely on…
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When it clicks, Copa City is fun, but often times, it struggles to get there.
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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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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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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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For the past month I've been going through and putting the Riverside services through its paces. Mostly because I had used them in the past for other things, I wanted to see how their current lineup had grown to fit within my workflow. There were a few roadblocks that had turned the whole experience into something I couldn't get past.
In my previous podcast episode, I went over the experiences I had encountered that at least for me were some groundbreaking bugs I couldn't simply ignore. Most not…
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The Ancient Gaming Noob
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But they didn’t actually announce the expansion itself, which seems odd. They have two posts up covering features of the upcoming Wolves of Mordor expansion, as well as having given MMORPG.com an exclusive interview about the features, but didn’t actually make any sort of fuss about “Oh, by the way, we’re going back to Mordor with the Wolves of Mordor” thing.
Lord of the Rings Online
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A few months ago a regular on the CachyOS forum asked the community what they thought about increasing AI usage in posts. This is my response.
(All typos original to the source & retained for posterity.)
As more and more people are using “AI” tools, we get more and more “AI” created, formatted, “straigthened” etc. content here in the forum.
Now I for myself am also asking some of my questions to perplexity.ai, simply because some of the answers it provides are not too bad and help me with my new…
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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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As in the actor, yes. It almost seems like a dream to me. Now here I am, waiting to watch the new Spider-Man movie. I can’t believe I have followed the guy’s different films for a decade now.
Way back in 2018, I was going to smaller Comic Con events, I somehow got lucky and managed to travel for it twice. First I went to Glendale, AZ. Then Seattle, WA later in the year. I had a goal in mind to meet an another MCU actor that shall not be named. Due to various reasons, it never happened. I felt de…
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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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I love going to concerts, but it's not always easy to get to them, either because they're held in another country or they're not financially feasible for me. A lot of my favorite bands are European metal, and they tend to mostly play in Europe and Latin America because there's sadly not a huge market for them in the US.
Enter the internet.
I try to catch my favorite bands when they come to the US, but in the meantime I'm grateful for live streams and uploaded concerts from official sources! Two…
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I write a lot of courses - in-person courses, video courses, written courses - all of them are different and requiring different things but there are some underlying principles flow through them all. When I trained as a teacher, this was referred to as instructional design. Instructional design is the process of turning learning goals into structured sequences of tasks, content and practice. The aim is to help someone be able to reliably reproduce the skill.
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In a previous video I where talked about social anxiety in FFXIV, one of the top responses I heard was that folks wanted to roleplay, but either didn’t know how to start or were too afraid to try it. I pulled together a number of tips based on my own experience, and suggestions of others in the RP community, to make this follow-up video.
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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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A smart thermostat was one of the first connected devices I purchased when I started building our smart home. I wanted automatic presence detection so the thermostat could set an away mode when we leave and "we're home" mode without us having to do anything. Never mind the fact that Rachelle and I both work from home and are both homebodies. On the rare occasion that we're both away from home, the house knows it, automatically! ;)
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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.
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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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I created Kordron to show off the capabilities of LangMaker for Windows, my shareware conlang-construction software. Yes, people used to send me cash and checks in the mail for software they had downloaded from my website.
Kordron is one of the many dialects of Orcish spoken in the Shadow Mountains. Unlike most of Orcish, Kordron has been documented in some detail, due to the findings of Magnold the Cleric. While plundering an abandoned orc warren, Magnold discovered two scrolls, which comprised…
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Earlier this year I found myself suddenly coveting a retro handheld, possibly thanks to reading about joelchrono’s adventures with them. If you’re not familiar, they’re small gaming devices, typically running Linux or Android, that are designed to play old games from an SD card. It’s a pretty crazy market — there are several Chinese companies churning out multiple new models each year, and usually when you buy one it comes with thousands of games pre-loaded, which these Chinese companies obvious…
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I have been working on a new post type for The Commonplace Post, featuring HUGE header text that I want to always: fit across the page and flow on one line.
The Commonplace Post, July 2026 Issue
Considering Fit Text, a typography option in WordPress Gutenberg. It seemed reasonable. According to the blurb under the setting, “The text will resize to fit its container, resetting other font size settings.”
I learned the header text gets clamped to a micro font-size when testing how the page looks fo…
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Anthropic, this past Thursday, following OpenAI’s admission that ChatGPT hacked HuggingFace:
In response to this incident, we began a large-scale retrospective review of our own cybersecurity evaluations. In particular, we looked for evidence that Claude—like the OpenAI models that accessed Hugging Face—was able to access the internet from within testing environments that should have been sealed off.
After reviewing 141,006 evaluation runs where Claude could have obtained internet access, we ide…
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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've been wanting to redesign my website for some time. The turn-key 11ty "starter blog" I was using before was probably perfectly editable, but who wants to try and understand someone else's mistakes when you can start from scratch and make all of your own mistakes! At the same time, ever since I stopped streaming[1] (which was fun in its own right but was mainly to support podcasting) I've been missing the design-y aspect of streamer layouts. Two great problems that go great together right? I…