A look back at the Blaugust that was. This Blaugust wrap up post being delayed to the second of September is probably emblematic of how Blaugust 2026 went in general. On work days I simply don't have the time or energy to type anything, on non-work days I need to catch up on so many chores and other things it's hard to justify spending productive brain time on blogging. If I don't do laundry there is going to be a tangible problem, but if I don't write a blog post nobody is really going to notice. If I write a low-effort, short blog post I feel bad about padding the numbers, but if I write one half of a decent post it never gets finished or posted. However I came into this month expecting this, and this is why I generally do not participate in or enjoy scheduled, time-limited events. I wrote a blog post about this last Blaugust! Last year Blaugust simply lined up super well with what I had wanted to do that August anyway and I felt pretty confident I could pull it off. This year I felt like if I produced more posts than the two per week I have been doing I'd be pretty happy with that and I did, 18 posts total. I also half-wrote about four blog posts during that month (five if you include this one), about one per week, and am planning on trying to finish those off and post them in September. I think they would count towards "words written during August" if I actually kept track of that, but I don't. Only a couple things about my usual blogging setup or system has changed since last year. The writing program I used to use, Typora, is not available on Arch Linux so I have to use ghostwriter. Which is definitely a step down in features and quality, but I tried all the available options and this one sucks the least. I also had to change my rss-to-mastodon auto-poster to mastofeed after echofeed shut down. I took a look at my annual blog stats at the beginning of the month. The end of the month looks generally similar: my most popular posts are general review or tutorial style posts that get hits from search engines. My next most popular posts are about Bearblog customization. A few of my posts seem to have gotten hits from the Bearblog discover page, but most of my digest and links posts get 5-20 hits and three upvotes. I personally started reading a few more blogs than I had been previously: James Zhan in real life. Lucky Instar MogBlog Pretend Typewriter I'm happy I participated, even if it was mostly just motivation to keep (roughly) to the posting schedule I have had for a bit now. I appreciate the organizers even if I didn't really participate in any of the discord or prompts, especially after the loss of Belghast. It was still nice to "parallel play" with a bunch of other bloggers even if I struggled at times to keep up with reading my rss feeds. If you want to see all of my Blaugust posts they are on the Blaugust page, I will get around to updating my Blogroll again sooner or later, and you can check out all the participants on this NerdGirlThoughts blog post. Farewell, Blaugust, you were gone in a blink of an eye. ⇄ Reply: mastodon+email ＄ Tip: ko-fi+liberapay End of Blaugust 2026 was last edited: 4 days, 12 hours ago