August is over, and that means Blaugust 2026 has ended. This was my first time participating, and I set myself the goal of writing 15 posts this month (the silver tier), which I'm happy to say I managed! Two of them ("tech sucks" and "I used to be excited about tech", links below) went kind of viral and made the rounds on Bubbles and Hacker News, which is always a bit scary. But I got a number of really nice and thoughtful responses, and the "tech sucks" posts also generated a number of blog posts in response, which I've linked at the bottom of that post. Overall it was a nice challenge. I was surprised that I always managed to find topics to talk about without running out of ideas or writing about things that didn't really interest me just for the sake of getting a post out. The only thing that's a bit of a shame is that I wasn't involved in the community too much because their platform of choice is Discord which I'm not a fan of, so I unfortunately missed that part. It was still great reading the posts from others that showed up in my feed, and there were so many participants that I couldn't possibly follow them all. I linked the posts that resonated with me in my weekly linkdumps. A big thank you goes out to Krikket and the others for organizing! I'm looking forward to participating again next year. For completeness' sake here's a list of all my posts from this month. Thanks everyone for reading and following and getting in touch with me! Let's do Blaugust An OPML list of (most) blogs participating in Blaugust Are we becoming too paranoid about AI slop? Why a Raspberry Pi shouldn't be powered through its GPIO pins Linkdump No 119 Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change Going viral is kind of scary Linkdump No 120 Ritchie Blackmore and Deep Purple I used to be excited about new tech, but I rarely am anymore Linkdump No 121 How I use AI 5 Albums Linkdump No 122 My new old Micro Hi-Fi