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It's currently Blaugust, and so I'm counting all my blog posts this month as Blaugust posts, including the Linkdumps. I told a friend about it and she laughed, because "blau" in German means "blue", like the colour, but it can also mean being drunk. And I had this thought too... Blaugust sounds a bit like I'm planning to spend the month getting hammered. Sometimes a totally innocent or meaningless word in one language can mean something entirely different in another language. I'm always reminded…
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“Rannalli”, printed in a hand writing-style script in an oval, flanked by two checkerboard flags and a background of jagged shapes, remains deeply lodged in my mind.
The Rannalli logo and name haven’t become deep lore among other skaters from the 1980s in the way that Vision, Sana Monica Airlines, or Gordon & Smith remain revered, however. And the heavily pixelated image above isn’t mine. It’s an ebay image found linked from this Vintage Longboards post. From what I can gather in an hour or so o…
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A decade ago I wrote a post about blogrolls and the practical and social issues surrounding them. At the time, the version of Squarespace I was using didn’t easily support such things or at least wasn’t able to do so in a manner I liked, so I didn’t have one. Ten years later Squarespace as a hosting platform has far greater functionality, hence I recently decided to add a blogroll. That was in March this year. However it just wasn’t really fit for purpose. So I decided to revise it a few days ag…
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Words Under My Name
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I really hate slow-rolling things. I like to work quickly, get task after task out of the way quickly and efficiently. At work, that means my numbers go higher, leads to me getting better raises, more access, more good stuff that I wouldn’t get to do otherwise. In my games, I like being able to chew through quests, missions, levels, and be able to take my time with the story parts I find important. That way if I find something I like, I can engage with it like I want to, instead of being pressed…
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I was almost tempted to watch an episode of the show attached to this line before writing but decided I didn’t care that much about the lore here. I barely watch Transformers cartoons and I have a ton of those. From my brief bit of research, Armorsaurs is a Disney+ show based on a Korean show called Armor Saurs, with a space. Its a sort of, Korean Sentai show, Sentai being shows like, Power Rangers and Kamen Rider. Normal people who power up with fancy devices into armored fighters who often als…
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I’ve always had a interest in how things work, how to fix them and how to “improve” them, much to the annoyance of my parents who would find evidence that I had been unscrewing appliances.
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I’ve been monitoring the fires in Spokane, Washington the past few days. There is a very good chance my childhood home there, were I lived for about 18 months or so, is gone. But my grandparents former home is fine.
When I was a kid I’d go to my grandparent’s house for a week or two over summer. One summer there was a large fire on Old Trail and up on the southern hill from the Spokane River. We could see the fire from the porch across the river, but could also see the Old Trail fire ignite tree…
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The last few years I’ve been on a handful things that have been shared out, but I’ve not posted about them. I’ve started to add them to my homepage, about page, and an old media pages. Posting things here, sometimes slips my mind.
The first two are for a company I’ve long been a fan of The Omni Group as I’ve used OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner around the time I picked up my first Mac for myself in 2001. The two products may have been included with the purchase of Mac and were great apps that have…
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This probably does not merrit an entire post but I spent a little too long troubleshooting this one so I figured I would post about it anyway. I have an instance of Immich installed and I use the iOS app to backup photos from my phone. I had not noticed that this was not happening for a while.
When trying to backup a photo the app would show somewhere between 8% and 21% complete and then time out. I tried a bunch of things before landing on a resolution. These included: clearing cache, enabling…
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The Z323 said goodbye
It all started last Wednesday. I wanted to listen to some lo-fi music while coding. I turned on my speakers, and nothing happened. I tried turning them off and on again: nothing. I even plugged them into another wall socket, but the LED stayed dark.
It came as a surprise. I had that 2.1 speaker system for 15 years and never had any problems with it. It also never showed any signs of issues before it broke.
It was a Logitech Z323. The first movie I watched with it was The Fe…
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The Cyberpunk: Edgerunners collab in Wuthering Waves has been over for a while now, but despite it having been pretty much my sole reason for picking up the game in the first place I’m still playing every day.
Which is to say, it’s fricking awesome as a whole!
To some extent that really doesn’t surprise me of course, as I’ve heard a lot of good things about it since its release two years ago. What does surprise me, however, is that some of the features I’d expected to like the least are the ones…
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Through Wolfy's Eyes
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It is far too easy in these modern times to ignore or even believe that good things are coming. And it’s also easy to dismiss excitement at upcoming games as dismissive of the wider global horrors; some temporary panacea that just delays the drop into the void.
I feel differently. I have always maintained that being excited for new things in gaming is a wonderful feeling, and one that I’m very often swept up in, particularly when it comes to MMOs. I also think that if all you look at are the bad…
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Wilhelm over at The Ancient Gaming Noob posted about the sad state of affairs at the modern incarnation of Electronic Arts. What EA has become over the past thirty years is both sad and despicable: they are often times more damaging to gaming and the industry than they are beneficial. And now the stage is set, as Wilhelm describes, for things to become much worse.
Where EA is going now is clearly tragic: a lot of great developers and teams will be harmed in the impending bloodbath as the Saudis…
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Adding to the fun of this Hugo migration, I accidentally published all my draft posts this morning.
If you happened to see the actual words of those posts (they might be cached in your feed reader), I realize you now can’t unsee them. My sincerest condolences.
I’ll do a followup post once I figure out what happened and how exactly I fixed it.
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Cataclysm is the expansion that took the world I'd spent a few years in and rearranged the furniture while I was out of the room. Deathwing came up through the middle of Azeroth and broke it, and Blizzard used that as the excuse to rebuild the entire old world. Every low-level zone I'd leveled through a dozen times was suddenly different. That was the whole pitch, and it landed as a strange mix of exciting and unsettling.
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I’d heard rumors that the FFXIV Mobile version would be canceled about a week or two before the official website posted an announcement. Because I’m honestly not sure how long the site will remain up, I’ve screenshotted the info and placed it in this post.
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Fishing. Ah, fishing...
Every MMORPG has to have it, for reasons that I find hard to imagine. Is it such a universal pastime? I know it used to be ranked the #1 participatory "sport" in the United Kingdom, when I was growing up in the 'seventies, but people had fewer ways to entertain themselves in those deprived and forsaken times.
You know what? Let's fact-check that. Was it ever that popular? Is it still? It always seemed unlikely to me but I didn't have the worldwide web and an AI assistant…
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I was looking at my Blaugust posts from last year, and I have one titled Hidden Gems on Bandcamp, wherein I shared some of my favorite lesser-known albums on the platform. Since there's another Bandcamp Friday coming up tomorrow, I thought it'd be a great time to revisit this idea and share some more albums with you. If you purchase any albums on Bandcamp tomorrow, 100% of the proceeds go directly to the artists.
Moons by Megan Carnes
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The Ancient Gaming Noob
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The deal is done. Capital management, unfettered capitalism, and political corruption has won again. Electronic Arts has been acquired by the Saudis in a completely economically non-viable deal that saddles the company with a huge amount of debt that will be used as a boat anchor to sink the remains of the organization once the vultures pick off the best bits.
Electronic Arts – Early Days Logo
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Super duper closeup of an elephant giving us all the stinkeye has been downloaded, royalty-free from Pixabay (vinayakharshvardhan).
Even as I’m sitting down now to type this, I think it might be a Very Bad Idea indeed. Let’s see where we end up, shall we?
There’s been a lot of folks talking about the “policy” that was appeared at the end of this year’s announcement post, but I’ve noticed that not everyone is getting the chronology right. So that’s where I’m going to start.
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This will be the first time (so many firsts this month!) I’m attending HTML Day, which is in its 4th year.
This is worldwide in-person event, where participants hand code HTML (CSS optional) websites/pages.
I’ve written raw HTML in high school but not really since then (excluding working on Hugo templates). So I am really looking forward to doing something creative that day!
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If Emily Dickinson had written her poems on her Wordpress blog, her host would have deleted them outright when the bill came due. Instead, her sister found 1,800 poems written on paper and stored in a drawer. Words written on paper take an intentional decision to destroy them whereas words written online usually require an intentional decision to keep them. In this modern blogging age how do we make our writing last?
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I asked around a few friends who do watercolour painting for paint brand suggestions. I’ve been using Winsor & Newton (pictured on the right) but they are student grade paints, and are not lightfast. Not a HUGE issue as I’m not selling any originals, but I wanted to try out some professional grade paints.
One of my mutuals suggested I try ‘White Nights’ which I had never heard of. They’re a brand from Russia, and quite a bit cheaper than Danielle Smith, which is who I was going to go with.
My se…
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Morning!
This is going to be an easy one, because it’s just links to other Blaugust posts I’ve been collecting.
I’m off to a brain MRI appointment this morning and then throwing away a mattress and sofa, which was supposed to be yesterday but plans changed, and then somehow squeezing in time for the day job.
Blaugust Reading
You may or may not be aware that it’s almost impossible to actually read the posts blasting by at a thousand miles an hour during Blaugust, let alone interact with them in a…
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What This Is About
Hand write, raw Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and make a webpage during the worldwide event, held in early August each year. Read HTML Energy’s Goals page to learn more.
How to Participate
Visit HTML Energy and go to the Events page to see if your area is hosting an event (it’s free). Bring a device, write some code, meet some cool people, and build something on the web! What will you build?
But I Don’t Have a Website Yet
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Academic Aesthetic
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(This is my sixth post in a series of entries I’m using to participate in Blaugust for 2026.)
There’s an interesting read on The Hechinger Report where Jackie Mader has written an article about game sites that avoid school web filters.
(The Hechinger Report, interestingly enough, releases articles under a Creative Commons license. That’s super cool of them, and one of the reasons they’re in my RSS feed reader.)
As is my trend for Blaugust, this isn’t a summary of that article, I’m using it as a…
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Srijan Choudhary, all posts
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Emacs has a built-in way to save and restore sessions: the desktop.el library.
As the Emacs manual says, putting this in the init file enables automatic save and restore of sessions:
(desktop-save-mode 1)
But, I wanted a different behavior:
Automatically save the session
But don't restore it automatically
I wanted to only use the session feature to restore sessions that I closed by mistake, or where I forgot to finish something before quitting Emacs. By default, I wanted a fresh session every ti…
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Bookmarked: I Built a Blog and Forgot to Write - Ben’s Web Space Glad I was lazy to begin with and made it easy to post to my blog…
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Weird incident yesterday with self-proclaimed “AIs” joining an IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club meetup. They awkwardly edited the Etherpad, and apparently blanked/deleted chunks of content.The meeting hosts reacted quickly to change Etherpad and Zooms and not re-admit the aliases that had claimed to be “AIs”.Now we have an “AI policy” page on the wiki where we are documenting examples of the AI policies of:* individual personal websites* community efforts like blogging challenges (e.g. Blaugust)*…
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Sure, I like electronic gadgets. But I dislike planned obsolescence more.
It’s one thing when the newer model really is that much better. “All About the Pentiums” exaggerated it, but computer hardware in the 1990s really was improving by leaps and bounds. (And the software was devouring those performance gains, both in demanding more resources, and being less efficient as programmers were told to optimize for their own time, not for disk space or RAM.) That eventually settled out around the time…
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CatCoq's Mini Collection Challenge and Peggy Dean's Summer Creative Retreat, incorporating drawing techniques, creative collaborations, and an invitation to Blaugust 2026.
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It's already been almost a month (how??) since I deleted all my corporate social media accounts. Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Discord, among others. And as a result I've found myself looking at other social platforms and communities to fill my time with.
Because social media is not inherently bad—it only starts becoming bad when multi-billion dollar businesses are created around using people as products and extracting as much information and value as possible out of every single one of them.
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… About the increased frequency of posting in the past few days, I have been infected by an Internet meme. On mastodon somebody posted something about #Blaugust, where there is some "competition" to post at least once a day during August. Like NaNoWriMo, only much smaller. Since I happened to have posted something on August 1, I signed up and so far I have been posting every day. I might not have bothered you all with the garden report, but the others I feel like I probably would've wanted to bl…
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i hate typing on my phone. it's so slow. it takes forever to get my thoughts out. and i'm still very prone to typos which only adds to the time it takes. (yes, i am typing this blog post on my phone)
i don't have a keyboard with autocorrect anymore. ever since i swapped over to grapheneos, i started looking at keyboard alternatives. I used to really like typing with the swipe option. It was really fast! but i would also prefer to not give microsoft or google my data.
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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.
The code that a program runs is provided by the developer of the program. The inputs and interactions are initiated by the user of the program. The environment variables are data provided by the system that runs it. T…
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Ask a question of an LLM and you'll get an answer. Sounds good but is the answer actually correct and valid?
How do I compare two passwords in a timing-safe way?
Use secureCompare(a, b) from `crypto.utils`. It is timing-safe and recommended.
This might be spot on but it's told with a level of confidence and specificity that makes it challenging to disagree with. The problem is that in Node, the function is actually timingSafeEqual. Where is the LLM getting the information from?
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I have spent just over a decade on Git Hub. I’m a hobbyist. Very little if anything I’ve had on there has been of benefit to anyone other than myself. Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub in 2019 did not pass me by. I turned a blind eye. I think it’s fair to say my patronage is of no benefit to Microsoft.
Since spring 2025 I’ve used Git Hub to host and publish my Hugo blog. I’m getting something for nothing. That sits well with me since it’s Microsoft. It still feels a bit off though since I’m the…
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You know those moments where you think, dang, computers are so insanely fast now … so why in the world does software still feel slow??
Well ripgrep is the antidote to that feeling. It’s just mind-bogglingly fast. I flippin’ love ripgrep. I use it for so much stuff.
Anyway, today I found a nice snippet that lists all my blog posts that are still in draft status:
rg '^draft( = |: )true' --glob "*.md" --files-with-matches content
The handy bit there is '^draft( = |: )true', which will find both dra…
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Dearest viewer, allow me to bring back a classic among this here Blog. We are going to play the hit song “Blockade wants to punt his laptop into the street”. Why? Because I really want to punt my laptop into the street after the way this week has gone so far. Not my desktop, I treasure that far too much. My work laptop? Weapons free.
Monday, the usual suspects, “my printer no print”, “I can’t log in”, things I’ve heard a million times. Except along the way, I get a call for a printer someone els…
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With my players all online, gone are are the days of rolls of grid paper and hand-drawn maps. A modern digital adventure calls for virtual maps and this is how I go about that.
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I love MMOs. Back in a day I was in every beta test and while paying sub and sometimes even buying the game was quite often out of my capabilities I still played a lot of MMOs. One of the main issues was the time consumption, which lead to me skipping a few years in single player games history and partially made me stop with MMOs. I just wanted to catch up with some other games and preferred to not lose touch with single player games and tried to touch grass some more, getting my life in the rig…
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I previously wrote about some adventures I was having with visitors to my site being blocked while attempting to post comments. I had a hypothesis at the time that the problem was related to a Cloudflare feature called Browser integrity check (BIC). However, I believe I’ve now disproven that as the (primary) cause: the real culprit appears to be a plug-in for WordPress called Dam Spam.
The counter evidence
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We're only on the 5th day of Blaugust and I'm already struggling to think of something to write about. I went through the list of prompts and nothing is standing out there either. I think I'll just do a little freewriting (freewheeling?) today and see how it goes.
Let's start with some music I've been loving lately:
The album Come Closer by Tomora - a trip-hop collaboration between Aurora and Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers. I always love seeing new trip-hop releases because it's a bit of…
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A look at trends in the site analytics after about a year since I started blogging.
I started this blog in July 2025, but only really got started with posting on it in August, so we can say it's been approximately a year since I started. So I thought I'd look to see if there's any conclusions that can be drawn from my blog stats. The answer is... not really?
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I picked up Final Fantasy XIV sometime mid-2022.1 I was finishing the final year of my Master degree, except I already knew I would be repeating it, because very little was done. I was in the middle of an internship that was remote and not really my cup of tea. In the middle of all this stress, my gender was having a stroke too. There was no better time for me to fall for a massive time-sink of an MMORPG with free trial up to level 60 including the award-winning Heavensward expansion, and so I d…
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When it comes to talking up my favorite games, I try as often as possible to not demean another adjacent title as a way to drive home that argument because it’s the most menial of punch-downs possible. Even if I may feel that way in some cases. Just because World of Warcraft has never really been my jam doesn’t mean that shitting on it makes Final Fantasy XIV look better.
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The Ancient Gaming Noob
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I will say this; Planet Crafter moves along at a brisk pace. It is also good about laying out the next objective for you and giving you a way to see how fast you are progressing.
Certainly A Planet Crafter
Unlike Valheim, which I will use for comparison as it represents such a staple of the survival crafter genre, with rather broad objective of slaying the current biome boss, Planet Crafter objectives are much more incremental.
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Inventory Full
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The image at the top is there because this was going to be a post about the new fishing event in Neverness to Everness. That's not happening any more (Tomorrow, probably.) but the picture still has some relevance qua "picture", so I'm going to leave it in. It's a lot prettier to look at than the rest of the pictures in this post, that's for sure.
Now it's not about fishing, this is a post about blogging. More specifically, it's a post about Blogger, in which I moan about it.
Whining about bloggi…