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The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference
–Elie Wiesel
Last week the site Aftermath, had what they called Hater Week, where the staff opened up on things they did not like. There were some interesting takes.
Aftermath Hater Week – I totally stole this image
Some of them I felt in my bones, like the one about how awful Adobe is. I remember having a beta copy of Photoshop 2.0 back in 1991 and thinking it was the coolest thing ever. I am not even a creative by profession, but everybody I…
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AuguStory, the story of your blog by Robert Birming encourages sharing the story of our blog. Chloe at For No One has put together some great additional prompts and I've enjoyed stories by Sylvia and Becky at Online Goddess.
My blogging story is not that interesting - while I've been banging around making sites since 1999 I've not consistently had a blog. Different projects have come and gone. Personal blogs, politics, local stuff, TV shows, a game, courses I was doing, on Diaryland, Blogger, Wo…
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I learned quite recently that August 8[1] is HTML Day, a celebration of HTML that includes actual meetups! It almost feels like a silly thing to celebrate when I think back to my teenage self building fan sites in notepad.exe, but in reality it's quite impowering to be able to craft something with one's own (digital) hands. I know most people, especiailly people who grew up with social media, don't understand how incredily accessible HTML and CSS (and even basic JavaScript) are!
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A-ha, I have found the official Blaugust 2026 prompts! This week's topic is "Introduce Yourself," so I'll go ahead and do just that. I'm only covering some of the questions in this post. I'm thinking about doing the others in posts of their own.
Tell us ten random facts about the human behind the blog.
I already halfway did this in my second Blaugust post, and you can find 38 more facts about me on this page.
Tell the story behind the creation and name of your blog.
"Syl's Blog" is probably the…
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Bookmarked: Nicheverse Bio research gets more interestinger every day, cool work here mapping niches and cell states
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( blaugust #2, 8. August, 2026 )
Not too long ago, few months perhaps, I was wondering about an event that happened almost 25 years ago - my first public performance of computer music so to say. It is significant only to me, but also because at the time i was... people would say "out of my comfort zone", but in reality I was a student, surviving one of the biggest cities of the world, soaking in a lot of new influences and hard realities, learning digital artist's tools, and…
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Wow, pico.sh looks very enticing.
I found it last night after reading Brennan’s post, Free Speech and the IndieWeb, which discusses the reasons he doesn’t use Cloudflare. See also his longer post on this topic.
I have been feeling a little dirty about using Cloudflare for hosting this little indie blog. Plus, Cloudflare frustrated me this week when it wouldn’t update my broken site (my fault for breaking it; Cloudflare’s for not letting me fix it). So Brennan’s post provoked me to look for alter…
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And this list of MMOs I have played proves it.
Related posts:
EverQuest Legends: Where’s the lore?
Buy Now! The EverQuest Legends Cash Shop
Not Gonna Lose My Blog: Backups Saved Me Once and Will Save Me Again
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Ubergeek Kelly's World- Life, technology, science, rants
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I like to consider myself constructively lazy. I’ll put in a lot of work so I can do less work in the future, particularly if that work is boring and repetitive. Sometimes I’ll put in far too much effort for the possible future savings, but I still do it anyway just because I hate the repetitive stuff.
In this post I’ll touch on several things I’ve done on my blog server to make it theoretically easier to manage. WordPress update automation, WordPress backup automation, and Linux update/upgrade…
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The Ancient Gaming Noob
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No Man’s Sky turns ten years old tomorrow. I will not review the cycle of hype, disappointment, then eventual revival around the game. I’ve been there a few times before. It is enough for this moment to say that game is very different than it was back at launch in 2016.
Still, it has been a pretty amazing and occasionally unlikely journey, these last ten years.
No Man’s Sky – Celebrating 10 Years
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Immersion is extremely important to me as a story-focused player in FFXIV. And while I generally enjoy the story beats of the game (ignoring some of the lesser engaging stuff in Dawntrail), I do have one small issue with how FFXIV handles the main character of the MSQ… because if you aren’t playing a Warrior of Light (WoL), then things just don’t mesh well.
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Morning! It is a Saturday morning and I 100% do not feel like writing a blog post, and in fact, largely feel like I’m “over” the rush of renewed blogging energy that Blaugust brings every year and I’m ready to move on to another project.
But alas, there are some 24 posts yet to be written. The “staying motivated” Blaugust topic week should be in the second week, not the last.
This is the dual-edged sword of writing challenges. Writing something is easy. Writing something that’s worth reading 31…
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I'm a big Home Assistant fan and power user. It's the home automation platform of choice in our house and I've added many devices and automations, sometimes to the chagrin of Rachelle.
We also have five cats so it only makes sense to use some automations to help manage all the cat chores.
Top row: Lily and Mac. Second row: Linus, Lennie and Polly.
The dashboard #
To help me stay organized and visualize all the cat automations and functionality, I've created a cats dashboard. Let's walk through t…
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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.
A fun activity for today’s TDC. I chose the digital option and doodled away before clearing the page and making a clean spiral.
Spiradoodle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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(This is my eighth post in a series of entries I’m using to participate in Blaugust for 2026.)
On the whole I like The Hechinger Report. They have a lenient policy in regards to sharing their articles and they tackle some important issues.
On the other hand, they recently published a guest editorial by Alexandra Walsh, “the chief product officer at Amplify, one of the country’s largest K-12 curriculum and assessment companies.”
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Subtitle: Reflecting on my (not) selling stuff
This weekend, there’s a sale on all my products, including my Blender add-on course. There you go. That’s the plug.
For my second add-on course I’m working on, I interviewed a couple guys talking about the business side of Blender products. “What it takes to sell a Blender add-on,” that kind of stuff.
Listening to what things to do, what not to do, made me realize I’m doing a lot wrong. I’m sure if I hired a marketing guy, they would ask what the he…
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The open web has an amazing amount of free content that is actually free, both freely accessible without payment and free of conditions to access. No tracking cookies needed, no logins needed, no ads needed.A few examples:* blogs. my blog, and every other #indieweb blog (with the exception of sites hosted on content services that show ads without the consent of the blogger). Personal blogs are free to read because it’s a hobby and a way of keeping up with family, friends, colleagues, acquaintanc…
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A couple days ago, I wrote the blog post titled "Five Interesting Indie Platforms You Might Not Have Heard Of". I was really happy with it—being able to share the work of others that deserve support and can help foster digital indie communities.
But, regrettably, I had to rescind one of my recommendations. Let me explain.
As I mentioned in the post itself, BlueDwarf's "rule enforcement is informal, and I admit I've stumbled upon some... peculiar opinions and takes during my time on the platform,…
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People are still learning to use AI and the internet. Even though the narrative feels like lots of things are happening, it’s all micro-stories at best. Eventful history of our time is still ahead of us.
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I read today a piece about digital cameras and wired headphones making a bit of a comeback. It’s not news. I’ve read about this a few times over the past few years. What comes around and all that. However, it struck a chord with me since some of this stuff I have never fully moved away from or have still got tucked away in a draw somewhere until I am minded to have a play or finally get rid of it in one way or another. I was thinking about taking a few pics and writing a post about some of this…
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There's a desire we all share as humans – the desire for answers. We're conscious, we live, we search for meaning, and that meaning often comes down to specific answers to specific questions: what is going on, and why do things happen? A lot of our time and effort on this planet goes into seeking those answers. And throughout history, there has been an enormous and recurring appeal to find an Answer Machine – a device that reduces the effort required to get there.
This innate desire goes some wa…
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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.
Let’s take our first journey into the wonders of Django, my favourite web backend. One of the reasons I love it is its ORM which we’ll talk a bit more when we reach the midway of the month and letter O.
Today, I want…
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I wrote this post as my submission to the August edition of the IndieWeb Carnival, which each month invites folks to write something on their blog based on a topic proposed by a rotating host. August’s carnival topic is “purpose” and the host is Chris Shaw. I am also double dipping and counting this as my first post of Blaugust 2026 - a community celebration of blogging.
For the last 15 years or so my job1 has been (more or less) to think about and build the mechanisms to deliver customer suppor…
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Reviewing the ESO Roadmap Revision and pondering on cross studio collaboration at Bethesda. I also discuss remakes and remasters and how they may not be what gamers want.
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I was over on Wilhelm’s TAGN site today enjoying a good read about the disaster that is Xbox Games. I generally agree with everything he is saying: Microsoft has done a terrible job running their game business and it is showing. But I also have a somewhat different experience as a user of the Xbox console that I feel bears mentioning.
Note (mostly for Wilhelm’s benefit) that I did initially start to write this as a comment on his blog. But it started to get to be a bit too wordy, plus I’m curren…
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Yesterday, I posted a picture of my workspace as I finished up my butterfly flip book. I promised a walkthrough and I knew, because of the interactive nature of the book, it needed to be a video. Hope you enjoy the tour: Here is a tutorial video from Melina Pylant: A production note: I have … Continue reading The Product of Productive Chaos →
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I wasn’t planning to do all my Blaugust posts on tech stuff, but it seems to be working out that way this week. 🤷
Today I learned about hybrid MBR/GUID partition tables, where the GPT (not that kind) on a disk is duplicated in an MBR table for compatibility purposes. Those reasons are probably outdated, unless you’re running a really old operating system, because GUID partitions have been around a very long time now.
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I was succumbing to my Hacker News habit recently and saw this post from Rands: The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing.
PT Mono was in the list of fixed-width fonts that made his cut. For some reason it stuck in my brain. Maybe because I hadn’t heard of it.
Later, I found myself perusing macOS’s Font Book app. There, in the relatively small Fixed Width collection of fonts, was none other than PT Mono. Turns out it’s a default font on macOS.
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I’ve had this story rattling around in my head for a while now, and I wasn’t really sure what to do about it. You see, the latest livestream out of Star Citizen was… not a good look. At all. In a lot of ways. And while I haven’t played the game in a long time, it still affected me to watch.
For those who don’t have nearly two hours of their lives to devote to a stream VOD, just know that the presentation of the FPS combat that was showcased did not go to plan, or if it did go to plan, it hasn’t…
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I hadn't looked in several year, but this blog was started 14 years ago in May 2012. If you look at my introduction, you'll see I was looking for a way to play MMOs casually and I guess that is still true today. I started with the first Newbie Blogger initiative, initiated by Syp or Justin Olivetti of Massively and Bio Break. When I just went looking for the image above, Google first reference was at Tales of the Aggronaut from back in 2012 when Belghast posted about it. That seems meaningful in…
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French solo developer Oneiric Worlds just announced their new upcoming cozy desert road trip, Yashi - Sand Driver!
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It is Friday and, as foretold by prophecy, it is time for another look at how things are going over at Microsoft’s XBox Games division.
Sad Xbox Games logo generated by Co-Pilot, because AI is what is killing them
After the announcement of the great layoff, have Asha and Satya solved the problems they set out to tackle? Do they even have a clue what they are on about? Well, read on and judge for yourself.
Asha Sets Some Priorities – But First We Need a Slogan!
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A week of Blaugust, a honkaku mystery, some music for Bandcamp Friday, Traitors NZ, and more Zelda.
We are a week into Blaugust and I have managed a post a day so far. However next Monday I'm back to work for a full seven days so will probably not continue that pace. Probably another link post on Monday or Tuesday and a digest on Friday at least. I also need to spend some more time job hunting. I am only really employed at my current job until the end of September. Which isn't that far away. Try…
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After a pretty solid week of World of Warcraft discussions, I thought I'd take today to being to toss in some discussions on other games.
I gave Final Fantasy XIV a real shot. Not a weekend, not a free trial I abandoned in the starting city. A couple of years, an actual subscription, a character and jobs I put genuine hours into. And I still stopped. This is my attempt to be honest about why, without doing the tribal thing where you have to trash one game to justify playing another.
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I said we'd get there! And we have. Took a while but it won't be worth it.
Well, how could it be? It's a post about a limited-time event in a game that, by my count, two people who follow this blog might be playing. And all the event involves is fishing.
It's not proper fishing, either. Not even by the standards of the game itself, which aren't exactly rigorous to begin with. Fishing in Neverness To Everness isn't one of the most sophisticated representations of the pastime I've seen in a game.…
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You didn't know about the cash shop? It's not a story the hardcore would tell you.
Related posts:
EverQuest Legends: Where’s the lore?
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It’s that time again in FFXIV – Relic Weapon grinds! The newest patch 7.55 brings the final step of the Relic weapon to the game while encouraging a full-on run of everything in Dawntrail all over again.
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I do not do any Phoneblogging. Zero. None. Zilch. The closest I get is reading my RSS reader and saving posts to a blog ideas list. As I get older, I just don't want to mess with my phone for in-depth things, and blogging, for me, qualifies as something in depth. I scroll Mastodon, I scroll my RSS reader, I get Home Assistant alerts, and I scroll Instagram reels for fun. That's pretty much the only things I use my phone for. Oh, I guess I use it to ask Rachelle questions when I'm grocery shoppin…
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Morning! This is my third attempt at today’s blog post.
The first one was going to be a very helpful post I prepared yesterday about some of the ways agentic AI has simplified my project and development life, some prompts and examples that I return to again and again. I decided to postpone that one because recent Blaugust discord activity reminded me that people absolutely hate AI.
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Academic Aesthetic
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(This is my seventh post in a series of entries I’m using to participate in Blaugust for 2026.)
You may have noticed that each of my Blaugust posts is hung on a hook that is another article (sometimes several), sometimes only loosely related to my topic.
I’m liking the idea of using these as jumping off points, and the whole thing feels far less derivative than the “articles” I’ve frequently found in the past that were “Here’s a video with a paragraph about it that hits word count but really jus…
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Owning media again
This year, one of my aspirations is to rely less on the big streaming services for my entertainment. Why? Well, for one thing, if we give too much power to large corporations by getting overly attached to their services, that leads to monopolies, inequality and ultimately, democratic decline. How’s that for a positive opening?
Finding alternatives is easier said than done, because Tech Morality is Hard, and I would generalise that to “Corporate Morality is Hard”. Namely, keepi…
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Got a new fountain pen, extra fine nib. It is.. extra fine ❤️
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As I mentioned, I accidentally published all my draft posts. You know, the ones I cheekily listed at the bottom of my ripgrep post. All public and in my RSS feed. Dangit.
What happened
I can’t know for sure, but here’s what I suspect happened.
Sloppiness on my part
When Hugo builds my production site, it puts the files in the public/ subdirectory. I then upload that subdir to Cloudflare Pages with wrangler.
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On the Blaugust Discord, UltrViolet suggested that bloggers link their post titles to the permalinks so that it’s easy to just right-click, “Copy Link as Markdown,” and get a formatted link with the correct title. (I’ve noticed Orion includes this in its context menu, and there are extensions for Firefox and Chrome that add it.)
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While looking for linking conventions regarding permalink locations, I found a reference on Wikipedia to <a rel="bookmark" href="..."> being used for permalinks. I’m not sure I’ve ever noticed or used that. I didn’t find any mentions of people actually using it that way.
Mostly I found secondhand references to other references to the HTML spec (yes, it’s official!), which has this clear as mud description:
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I've spent today reading through a blaugust 2026 RSS feed that I imported courtesy of 82MHz. Thank you! It's been really nice to have all the blogs in one place in my RSS reader and has pushed me to make a point of reading even more of folk's blog posts. Very fun. I'm also trying to make a point to email people more this month. It makes my day when someone emails me about my blog posts (you mean people read these?) so I hope to make someone else's day in the same way.
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I discovered today that my blog post from yesterday didn't post automatically to my Mastodon account—which I assumed was due to an error made. But instead, I found out that Robb Knight's EchoFeed is shutting down.
The reasons he lists for discontinuing the service make a lot of sense, but it still makes me sad. Not because of the service I'm losing, but because EchoFeed was one of the first IndieWeb projects I came across after joining omg.lol, and it has always worked effortlessly for me. There…
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If you know me IRL you should already have gotten an invitation.
Unfortunately, I'm being quite sad about the fact that the weather on Saturday (planned date of party) is iffy, and the weather on Sunday will be superior, but switching to the rain date is a headache. We will make the call tomorrow.
If you have an invitation, you should consider looking at the webpage that is mentioned. Although I do plan to send a blast email if there is a change. It's kind of annoying because I invite about 200…