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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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:
The bookmark keyword may be used with a and area elements. This keyword creates a hyperlin…
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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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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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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.
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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.
In 2024, we had two bl…
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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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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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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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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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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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My barber recently moved premises, set up on his own, and I found something genuinely compelling about that. The ability, as a professional, to essentially pick up your tools, find a new chair, and keep going. The skill is his. The relationship with his clients is his. The craft he's spent years developing is entirely portable. If a landlord puts the rent up, or an employer devalues his labour, he has real options. He can leave.
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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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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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I have a main. An undead warlock that I've been playing for over 19 years, and never seriously wavered. And I still can't stop rolling alts. Both of those things are true, and if that sounds like a contradiction, welcome to my armory page.
The 52 characters that I leveled to max in War Within
Here's how it goes. I'll be perfectly happy on the warlock, chipping away at whatever the current thing is, and then I'll see a class and race combo that I don't have, or a class gets reworked, or Blizzard…
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Morning!
It’s another very early morning and an unusually busy day for me.
I have a dental cleaning appointment this morning, so I have to hop to it and get ready for that. (For me, that means being ready hours early and then fretting about remembering to bring everything I’m supposed to and getting there at exactly the right time.)
Afterward, a friend is coming by with a truck to help throw out an old mattress and sofa that won’t fit in my SUV. It’s an old memory foam mattress, so it’s huge, he…
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This is a Blaugust 2026 blog post.
I’m now in my third term of music theory. Back in the first term, I created a handy reference sheet for major and minor scales. I just added a new ref sheet for what’s called applied (or secondary) chords.
A Bit of Music Theory
(If you know basic music theory, go ahead and skip this part.)
First, listen to this music snippet:
Here is the music score for what you just heard:
If you enumerate the C major scale – C-D-E-F-G-A-B – you see that C is the first note. T…
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Yesterday I moved my blog to Hugo and, despite my rigorous testing locally and in a staging deployment, I broke my RSS feed in production. Perfect. 🤦♂️
The issue was that the Hugo baseURL setting wasn’t being applied properly, so all the post links were pointing at localhost. The scrappy, I’m-in-the-middle-of-dinner fix was to set it manually:
hugo --baseURL "https://sals.place" build
But today I hope to figure out why the baseURL setting in hugo.toml setting wasn’t taking effect.
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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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Emma Roth, writing for The Verge:
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov blames an extortionist for planting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in a public chat to get the app temporarily removed from Apple’s App Store on Monday night. “Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us,” Durov says in a post on X. “This creates a potential systemic risk for every mobile app that hosts user-generated content. If an app used by more than a billion people can be removed from the App Store without pr…
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It's a day late but I've answered the Blaugust group project prompt: 'Tell us all about your very first blog!'
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I recently repaired the Micro USB socket of an old Raspberry Pi; the one through which the Pi receives it's power. It was a bit of a fiddly soldering job because the connections for the USB port are tiny. Because of this, I briefly considered just sending the power straight into the 5V and GND pins on the Pi's pin header. I've seen projects where a Raspberry Pi was powered through it's GPIO pins, and even ones where the Pi itself wasn't connected to a power supply at all and instead to a powered…
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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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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… 😭
As someone who posts to the internet and exposes a fair chunk of my thoughts out in the open for everyone to read. It is undeniable that, as free as we are, w…
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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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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.
@firefox · Jul 20, 2026
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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My First Blog
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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I had a migraine this morning that really threw me for a loop. Then I spent the afternoon and evening dealing with a different kind of headache: getting my phone number transferred to a new(ish) phone.
We picked up a Fairphone 4 a few years ago as sort of a hedge in case the electronics industry and/or tariffs and/or international trade went bonkers and one of our phones died. (We weren’t expecting all three.) The teenager used it for a bit before we bought him a phone that was closer to what he…
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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.
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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 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...
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These days, my primary "third place" is my local game store (LGS).
For those unfamiliar, an LGS is a small independent retailer of physical gaming merchandise that can include board games, card games, tabletop games, and role-playing games. Not every LGS serves all of these categories of gaming in great depth, but most will carry at least a few product lines of all of the major brands in each space. If you're new, you'll probably be able to get what you need to get started in whatever floats you…
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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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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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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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Bookmarked: Coding Agents Don’t Need Bigger Context Windows — They Need a Context Compiler | Towards Data Science Interesting way to not just reduce but actually control context. Should try it out. Wondering if this can be applied to text files also…
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You can proofread a million times, but the moment you hit publish, every single error shows it’s rear.