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The Ancient Gaming Noob
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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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ComradeNerdy
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Three of these are mine with setup and other stuff
Was supposed to be catching up, but ended up missing a couple of days instead, downside of being back home compared to travels – too much stuff that affects my plans out of my control. Even though most of my travels I’m not solo (sadly, mostly financial reasons), but it’s still just one person usually and it’s easier to discuss plans, besides I’m the one planning stuff mostly since travels are also my stream content.
That was one of the reasons…
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What the Fran
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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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Syl's Blog
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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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R’s blog ♡
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If you couldn’t find yesterday’s post, that was my fault. I put the wrong time in the published date. I didn’t realize it until after I woke up.
Yesterday I thought I had spammed the discovery feed after multiple posting attempts. I had originally written about the pancake breakfast I made. I wasn’t able to find it on the top of recents, so I disregarded the draft.
Then I answered the Bear blog questions from Ava after reading Peige’s (aka Pretend Typewriter) own answers. I wanted to try for mys…
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Sal's Blog
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Baty just posted this and I just have to follow suit. It’s hilarious and painful how relevant it is to my blog lately:
Comic credit to Rakhim.
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Luka Prin/ce Lucija log
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the meaning of blog
( 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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Sal's Blog
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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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Endgame Viable
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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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NomadWarMachine
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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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Aeish World Neocities
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Returning to blogust after missing two days. A speculation of what upcoming blogs might be about...
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Tantek Çelik
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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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Notes by JCProbably
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I haven't been inspired to post on august morning for quite some time now, even though I have a bit of a backlog of photos I would like to share one day1. Recently, I came across Inventory Full's Blaugust Class of 2025 post again, where my photo blog was mentioned. It reminded me that I do, in fact, miss sharing some of my just day to day photos. Maybe until I'm ready to commit to posting on august morning again, I can share a few photos here occasionally instead.
This photo is from a visit to G…
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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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object dot computer
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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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bavatuesdays
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I’m using Blaugust as an excuse to push myself to write more regularly about my film podcasting, so far so good. Got one post out over each of the last four days, and this one will make five. I still have to catch up on two days, but given I’m finding a groove and there’s no travel on deck—the good money is on me nailing it. This is not my first blog rodeo, people, I’m a veteran. While you flog yourself, I blog myself into a frenzy of cultural genius.
Anyway, our most recent series on indie inte…
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PaseoBaggage - Blaugust 2026
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Here's another song the radio introduced me to:
The Whitby Maid by The Outside Track
Pretty simple story behind this one. I used to work the night shift and I would try to tune into the local college radio on my way home. They played many songs I had not heard of. They didn't have anyone introducing the song choices so if you liked the song you had to try and look it up later by recalling the lyrics. This song eluded me for awhile until I could remember enough of the lyrics to find it. Here's so…
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MMO One Night
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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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An Archaeopteryx
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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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Sylvia's Studio
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This is a letter I wrote years ago in response to a challenge. For it you had to write something to a quality you wished you had more of.
I've rewritten it to reflect who I am today.
What would your letter be to?
Dear courage,
I thought I’d write a letter to you instead of diving into my life to find stories that will put me in your light.
That is so hard to do as I don’t see myself as a very courageous person.
You see, courage, as I’m writing this I am in bed, comfortably miserable. Days on end…
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Joelchrono's Blog
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Yesterday my work was rather entertaining. A workmate went on vacation for today and tomorrow, and there were a few tasks I had to do on their stead. This was nothing unusual, he covers for me plenty as well. However, I do wish things had allowed for at least a bit more time to write a post.
I did have a relatively easy idea which was a quick draft before my actual post of the day.
So, here’s a list of things I still do as a young adult that most of society expects me to stop doing, or something…
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Michael Harley (All content)
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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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Endgame Viable
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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.
The second one pointed that out, and generally mused about how the Internet is just filled with expressions of hatr…
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R’s blog ♡
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Questions belong to Ava’s Space
Why did you make the blog in the first place?
Because I wanted to share my thoughts somewhere. I lurked this site for some time before starting my own blog. People’s thoughts on the smaller internet and breaking away from large platforms resonated with me. I also remember finding a couple of artists discussing art topics on the feed, that inspired me the most.
Why did you choose Bearblog?
Because of the community! It feels sincere and is active daily. I read throu…
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Syl's Blog
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In light of Blaugust, I've been looking over some of my past posts here to get ideas, and I've realized that...I love this blog.
Sometimes I get self-conscious about my writing here, like it's not very good or interesting enough for anyone to want to read. And it is largely personal, largely for myself to be able to look back on and reminisce about times gone by. And that's exactly what I've been doing lately, so I suppose it's serving its purpose well.
I've always said that the point of this bl…