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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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Simple hashtag proposal for dates: datetags for the #indiewebIn summary by example:* #2026_08_04 ISO8601 YYYY_MM_DD date of this post* #2026_216 ISO8601 YYYY_DDD ordinal date of this post* #2026_08 ISO8601 YYYY_MM month of this postMany of us posting on the indieweb often post about things in the past. Photos, events, or sometimes throwback posts. Hashtags communicate and aggregate what posts are about. Posts about the past are usually about a specific date in the past, or sometimes an entire mo…
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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📀 watched “The Dark Knight” on Blu-ray, still holds up. https://enwp.org/The_Dark_KnightI saw it in the Metreon IMAX theater when it came out in 2008. About 28 minutes of it was filmed in 70mm film using IMAX cameras. The movie switched aspect ratios when it switched from IMAX to normal film. The 2-Disc Special Edition Blu-ray also switched aspect ratios roughly at similar times. Nice to see that that was preserved.The movie has incredible pacing. No extra moments. I had forgotten how many quote…
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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 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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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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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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My Third Blaugust entry, In Which my Gardening Adventures Lead me to find a very pleasant suprise.
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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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✒️ 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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🎞 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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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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When it clicks, Copa City is fun, but often times, it struggles to get there.
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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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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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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'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…
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BYOB前三个字母还挺好记：Bring your own……然后B是什么呢？我老是忘记。仔细一想，脑子里第一个冒出来的居然是Boisson（法语饮品）。其实应该是Beverage（英语饮品）吧。不过，怎么长这么像呢？
一查之下果然，Beverage源自古法语中的boivre，这个词在现在法语里就是boire（饮用）。
From Middle English beverage, from Old French beverage, variant of bevrage, from beivre (“to drink”), variant of boivre (“to drink”), from Latin bibō.
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而drink这个词是英语本土的词汇，据说可以追溯到古日耳曼语。
不过后面这个B也可以是Bottle、Booze等等。
说起来英文好喜欢缩写啊，马上就能想起BOGO：Buy one get one（买一送一）。据说为了凑缩写而努力瞎编名字的也不少。不过缩写太好用了就会慢慢忘记原名呢。
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Star Trek Axanar is back in the news, twelve years on from the last controversy. For those unfamiliar with the original debacle, in 2014 Prelude to Axanar was released via YouTube. This Star Trek “fan-film” presented as a faux 21-minute, Starfleet documentary was very well received by fans and was intended by its makers as a proof of concept for a feature-length film. Set in the year 2245, during the final year of the Four Years War against the Klingons, Prelude to Axanar pushed the boundaries o…
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Uncovered.ink · Judge a book by its first pages - Thanks to Jason Kottke for the recommendation for Uncovered.ink, which is a site that shows you a few pages of a book with no book cover, title, nor author. This is such a brilliant idea. The interface is clean and just has options for genre and a nice display of a page at a time show up. I like this far more than Amazon’s book preview (for narrative books / fiction). The focus is on the words and if you like it you can get the title, author, and…
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Over the years I and others have experimented with "watch" posts, short notes that express having seen a movie or TV show, sometimes with a link, and brief review or other commentary, like earlier today:https://tantek.com/2026/214/t1/watched-spider-man-brand-new-dayI was inspired by @Gregorlove.com publishing watch posts, and a few others have also done so, documented on the IndieWeb wiki page for watch posts:https://indieweb.org/watchI like to use a leading emoji to indicate a watch post, and p…
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Some random small thoughts provoked by nothing in particular and collected over the last few months.
should write a post about my ideal writer cooperative community
I bought poetry I'm not that into because I think my city ought to be able to support a poet laureate. We should be capable of that, as a place
I'm not sure why the writing group has dwindled again when I think a lot of people are really into writing? And really want community?
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🎦 watched “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” in the Metreon Dolby Cinema this past Friday and really enjoyed it.Took a half day off to recover from a long week & last weekend, and decided to see the new Spider-Man movie. The theater was packed except for the front row. Lots of fans wearing Spider-Man gear.If you haven’t seen the previous Tom Holland Spider-Man movies, you could watch only those three then this film and still have a great time. No significant dependence on other MCU (Marvel Cinematic Un…
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I might be nostalgic about going to the movies. That was one of the bonding activities I did with family and friends throughout my life. I only went once within the past few years. I just haven’t been able to bring myself to go since. There hasn’t been anything that I have wanted to buy a ticket for.
I’m very aware of the releases of The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day. And I’m hesitant about seeing both. I was not the target audience for Oppenheimer, and the MCU has been inconsistent for…
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Celestial Decks' Beta is perhaps one of the most refreshing takes on the CCG genre I've gotten to experience in recent years!
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Blaugust 2026 Feeds
以及我是如何用 Elisp 製作的
生成了一份 Blaugust 2026 Feeds (更新於 2026-08-04，137 / 148)，如果你需要可以點擊下載，然後导入到你的 RSS 閱讀器中。如果你想 參加 Blaugust，現在就是最好的時間！
這份 OMPL 文件裡沒有完全包擴 Blaugust 2026 – Meet the Mentors & Participant List 中的博客，因為有的博客無法訪問，有的在頁面上找不到訂閱連結，所以缺失了几個博客。如果在連結裡找不到你的博客，歡迎邮件聯系我，我很樂意更新進去。連結我會定期更新（可能每隔 7 天），你可以看連結後的更新日期了解是否更新過。
我主要是通過博客主頁中的 <link> 去查找博客的訂閱連結，一般可以在主頁的 <head> 裡找到：
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By the start of August, I am absolutely desperate for autumn to show up. I’m one of those people who have a very small window of comfortable temperatures, and although I cope okay when it gets a lot colder, I do not thrive when it’s warmer. I know there’s a lot of people that love summer, but I will never be one of them.
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Blogging live from Indie Web Club yet again! Lots of pieces from my camera roll. Please click on the link (and appreciate the visuals :') )
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What is Blaugust?
I had a go last year. Surprised myself and posted something most days. I never gave much thought to what benefit it had beyond the satisfaction of seeing the list of posts I published in August grow. The “community” aspect of it passed me by. Making connections online can feel a bit clunky like I am simply going through the motions. Whether it does again this year remains to be seen.
Just remembering now a book I read last year, “Sorry I’m late…. I didn’t want to come.” An auto…
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This is the start of a new series on my blog that I tentatively call "hitting the digital brakes". If I come up with a better title, I'll change this header and the hashtag
This is a picture I took on the road home today, with a Kodak Charmera.
The Charmera is a tiny keychain camera that I bring with me when I use a small handbag.
I love my tiny camera.
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This past week I few calls with some friends and, coming off those calls, was challenged to think about what I'm actually publishing. I have a lot of things I write about and do - I have half finished YouTube videos, courses, projects and apps - but I haven't pulled the trigger to publish very often recently. I wanted to think about some of the reasons for that.
Invoicable work has taken priority
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Join this writing challenge and see what you can do
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It's the final day of July, and I'm in a contemplative mood. Tomorrow begins Blaugust 2026, a fun event where bloggers are challenged to write 31 blog posts in 31 days.
Will I participate? Well, every month has been Blaugust for me since November 2025, as I've written at least 23 posts every month since then. Although I haven't yet had a month where I've successfully blogged every single day, so maybe I will.
What I want to talk about, though, is not blogging. At the start of the month, Dan Q. w…
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I have no idea where to start with this topic.
I met Belghast on Mastodon years ago. It was mostly me interacting with his posts with the occasional response from him. He was a pretty interesting person. I'd tune in randomly to his podcasts over the years, mostly as background noise while doing other activities. His musings over at Tales of the Aggronaut were always enjoyable as a quick read. It always gave me a sense of "hey, I'm not alone" in the random shenanigans that he found himself in. Wh…