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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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I sit in my easy chair, a hotel sec deposit arriving at 6 AM which brought about a walk to get fruit from WM. I was already at WM to buy the fruit when the refund hit, I just decided to get a bit more. Two cartons of smokes. Snacks and cigs through the day.
I felt like I wanted to visit some old sites. Blogs. Landing pages. I looked up Neil Ungerleider, a former Fast...something journalist, former blogger for journal of a journalist. Different life and times now.
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TV-14 · Series · Season 2 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama
Boldly go one step closer to where it all began.
Follow Captain Christopher Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.
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Watched: August 4, 2026
Rating: ★★★½☆
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I signed up for Blaugust on a whim thinking it was a post daily challenge. It turns out there are weekly prompts too (albeit optional), with the first week focused on sharing why we joined.
So here's why I joined: there's been a lot of change in my life, and I haven't really sat down and reflected and written for a while. I'd like to set apart some time to do this. I'll also try to post write1 daily, which is not something I've attempted before.
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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.
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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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You know that feeling when you're brimming with excitement about doing "a thing"? You feel energized and motivated and just happy. So you sit down and do the thing... and then it's like all the reality of the world falls on you. It's not what you saw in your head. Or it feels bad. Or it turns out to be way harder than you thought. And just like that, the excitement's gone, and you're left disheartened.
Wrestling with watercolour lately has put this cycle on repeat for me.
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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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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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Like many millennials, my first endeavor with the internet came as I was in my middle Teens and my introduction to blogging was through the amazing LiveJournal. I used to blog about the mundane everyday life of a teenage girl – with witchy inklings and just dipping her toes into the online social life that would consume her.
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All the niblings were pretty into the World Cup but the six-year-old was extremely into the World Cup. He really likes facts. Be they about Pokemon or football, if he gets a book of statistics he will have it memorised in days.
I don't care about football. I'm not in the fandom. But this is the UK so of course I know a lot about football, much more than I care to. Yes, I do know what the offside rule is.
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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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I was at FFXIV Fanfest a week ago, and no diary from Germany can be complete without a mention of German trains.
When I was picking our hotel, I thought it was well connected to the Fanfest location. And it is, but not when they decide to do a little weekend track renovation. And then when we tried to get to the keynote on day 1, an entire train station got evacuated due to a fire alarm, and we had to scramble for alternative routes.
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On the second day of my holiday I decided on another evening walk down the trail that led away from the beach. The day had been very fun, and very busy and I was mentally exhausted, in dire need of a break, and once again a lonely walk brought me right back into myself.
The trail started very easy and obvious, though I saw many overgrown and reclaimed branching paths that fireshadowed what this trail was soon to turn into. I thought I could avoid such inconvenience by sticking to this one path,…
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It's time to go back to music class as I have another memory from the same music class (possibly from the same year).
The Ghost of John. This example is by Sharpe Music. Obviously I can't share the exact version I heard in class
I know little about this song. My limited research suggests this is an old folk song and it was commonplace in elementary school music classes. What I do know it that it's creepy as hell! This song scared me when I was a kid. I am haunted by the memory of this being sung…
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Let’s assume your favourite team is called ABC. Does being in form, mean ABC is going to win their next game? This point can be argued in fact from both sides.
Usually being in form, translates to feeling good, mentally as well as physically. ABC in good health is likely to do well in the game they play. With every game ABC plays, they gain confidence. They get rewarded with dopamine. With this, they are ready to play in almost any circumstance. Although, too much of dopamine, can make them over…
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I have been working to check off boxes so my brain will be quiet. Then when I complete one task, another worry presents itself. My mental health hasn’t been too great after being in flight or fight mode for a month. I’m beginning to question how I function. Am I only trying to live up to people’s expectations?
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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.
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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… 😭
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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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I did a quiz! Thanks to Swifty's HQ, I now know which eeveelution I am: Leafeon!
I've always been a fan of grass-type Pokémon. My first starter ever, way back in the day, was Bulbasaur. I've stuck with the tradition and chosen grass types for almost all of my starters since then: Turtwig, Snivy, Rowlet, and Sprigatito. The one exception was Mudkip in Generation 3, which was a water type, simply because I thought it was too adorable not to choose.
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One of the things I love most in life, strangely enough, is fleeting and ephemeral: clouds.
I love them, am fascinated by them, and can stare at them for hours on end. They’re ever changing and remind me of how life is ever changing. Nothing ever stays the same, people come and go, we move through time slowly, as if a cloud, always forming and reforming. Sometime benign, sometimes volatile, sometimes thunderous.
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In one of those Repo Man lattice of coincidence moments, I was suddenly hit with a couple of unrelated posts about Monopoly the other day, which is the sort of thing that makes you think… at least think about Monopoly. So I did. Or tried.
The first was from Bhagpuss, who brought up the apparent reveal of a RuneScape edition of Monopoly.
RuneScape Monopoly – Image stolen directly from Bhagpuss
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A lot of diverse links this week as we get into Blaugust.
Blaugust has started, the feeds are buzzing. The participant list has been recently updated by Krikket and the opml file has been created by owl.
What to play when you're trapped in the hospital by Mog who is doing blaugust for the first time so you better be nice to him.
A few Linux utilities by DoubleAA who is also a friend of the blog so ditto
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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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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.
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A while back I wrote about having a slight addiction to my Kindle Paperwhite, and well truth be told I’m still believing that I have a very strong addiction to it now. Last time I ever talked about the genres that I really enjoyed it was mostly Paranormal Romance, and... Continue reading
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We thought it would be a quick scenario. Kill one mob, loot and leave. That's not the way it ended up.
Related posts:
I Know What I Did Last Weekend
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Captain Sonar: Real Time.
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What do you get when you cross Super Smash Bros. with I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream? The answer is Dead by Daylight, an asymmetrical horror game where 4 survivors attempt to escape a deadly game of cat and mouse against a killer. They do this by repairing generators which are needed to power up some gates that will allow them to leave the lethal playground, and then do it over and over again. For eternity.
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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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Welcome to 'random bee', a short writing series where I choose a random page in the book "Bees of the World: A Guide to Every Family" by Laurence Packer, then research it and do a short write up.
Today's random bee:
Genus: Caupolicana
Family: Colletidae
subfamily: Diphaglossinae
Caupolicana bee. Photo by Luis Flores Prado, laderasur.com
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It’s a damp early morning, the house clearly recalls the past hot day better than the cooler night. I’m playing a four chord song on my piano: my voice leading is clunky, the rhythm is uneven, and I couldn’t be more pleased to spend five minutes like this, skill-taste gap be damned.
Even though I’ve played piano and other instruments in the past, it feels like starting over again. They say that to be an expert at anything, you need to practice for 10.000 hours. Well, I’ve only…
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Ok, look, I know I made these prompts, but I wasn’t thinking about myself when I was doing it. I was looking for a topic that would fit the weekly theme, that just about anyone could write about regardless of what they normally blogged about.
It was only after thinking about it for a little bit, I realized that I already did this for a prompt back in 2023! Oh, how the time flies.
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August is here and so is blaugust. I stumbled upon that post in bluesky and since I want to write more, I figured I’d join. I’m already four days behind so I need to ramp up. In order to meet the goal of 31 posts, I’m going to try to do two posts a day. This aim-for-the-moon strategy has served me well in other side-quests (ha! there’s another topic).
Since I need to write A LOT, I’ll start by listing all the ideas I have in my backlog here.
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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.
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They either do not know who their user base is, or they know but those are not the users they want.
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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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One of my favourite notebooks (pictured above) that I own is bound in leather with cotton pages and I have such an urge to try painting on them. I haven’t yet, though I have tried drawing on them. I’m hoping when my new ‘White Nights’ watercolour paint shows up this week, I’ll get brave enough to give it a shot.
The pages are made to look aged on purpose, and it is such a tactile way of writing on them. At first I didn’t know what I could possibly write that would be ‘worthy’ of such a book – bu…
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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.
Today’s TDC asks us to
Make a silly solage
A silly solage is a happy poem of three lines, two of them as long as you dare, the third is one word. The third word is surprising and silly.
As far as I can tell this is a form of poetry just made up by Kathryn Apel as I can’t find it elsewhere in an internet search. She describes them as a type of joke, but mine’s more of a definition than a joke:
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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…