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My weekly blog post. Links this week include an elemental chart showing which ones are safe to lick, the Usenet Archives and a repository of 3D scanned images of publically accessible restrooms. You can meet Emerald, the mosaic kitty and I talk about my recent hip surgery. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
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This post is my contribution to the September 2026 IndieWeb Carnival topic "Parenting", hosted by winther:
https://winther.sysctl.dk/indieweb-carnival-september-2026-parenting/
My parents are good people, and I think about this often. About how lucky I am to have had a childhood free from abuse, trauma, or neglect. To have had an adolescence where I was encouraged, supported, and redirected towards interests and passions that have stayed with me into adulthood. In this life I have been blessed i…
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It's the sixth of September already, somehow. Summer finally feels as though it's at an end, with the temperature outside right now a chilly +9C°, and the overcast sky a slate pewter with a biting wind. This is my absolute favourite kind of weather—no worries of sunburn and heatstroke. Of course, this is merely temporary, as we're going to reach a sunny high of +23C° on Wednesday. But for now, the chill is kind.
All the swaying leaves and foliage are still green—I can't help but question if they…
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JAG’s Workshop
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Indie Developer Simulator:
You have $99 and a dream. Your goal: publish an iOS app.
The dream is negotiable.
From the HTML source file:
Get rejected. Get reviewed. Get sherlocked.
You don’t need to be an Apple developer to “get” this, but if you are, steel yourself. This “simulation” hit me viscerally. Absolutely gutted. Yes, I laugh-cried my way through it, but the entire experience made me cringe in painful recognition. Years of helping developers fight past these types of rejections came floo…
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vanderwal.net Off the Top
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Today after some small tweaks I moved the updated category page into the Off the Top blog area. Clicking any category will bring it up. Let’s say you want pages categorized with “folksonomy”, Folksonomy :: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net, and you get the updated category page. It allows you to filter the 128 (as of today for posts categorized as having folksonomy content) blog posts by a five-year range, as well as a co-category. It also shows a distribution chart with marks as 5-year demarcations.
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“zedeus,” in an update dated September 7 on Nitter.net:
On 24 August 2026 cease and desist letters were sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project’s repository.
Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. This instance and others will be back up and running shortly. An announcement will be made within a week, once we’re able to reveal more information.
A similar message was added to the Nitter GitHub repository (in a commit entitled “Nitter l…
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The first week back at work.
Happenings
So yeah, I started up back at work for the new school year. All the usual stuff to deal with. Updates to government policies to read. Leadership imploring all staff to do better. Chronic pain flares up with the stress. Still, I’m in a different classroom this year and it’s better than expected. My previous classroom had years (like, 10 years) of junk built up in old filing cabinets I never did get around to sorting out, so it was nice to come in to a relat…
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App developer Zhenyi Tan launched a new tool for people who want to limit their X/Twitter exposure:
Litterbox is a free Safari extension that opens x.com links in a popup. The idea is you open it, take a look, gag a little, then close the lid
A perfect name and description that accurately captures the garbage experience that is X/Twitter. It’s especially welcome in the wake of the demise of XCancel.
It might even survive Elon Musk’s churlishness:
Litterbox doesn’t send your cookies when you open…
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Cat pics from the summer house
First post since Blaugust was over, pretty easy to fall out of established routine. Even though it also was my birthday this week, so I have an excuse. Probably last crazy week out of this visit home, summer is over, birthday season almost finished, just a couple of things left to sort out before travelling.
Monday was still Blaugust with my final posts. I did play more MMOs with Stars Reach and SpiritVale. Did play more Breathedge 2 right before it released in Ear…
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I use the ISO weeks from Monday to Monday, so ISO Week 2026-W35 is the week of 2026-08-24/2026-08-30.
Churn or Calm
You know the analogy of how your favorite waterfowl (duck or swan) appears effortlessly gliding above the surface, while they’re ferociously paddling out of sight under the water? That’s very much what the tail end of August has felt like.
Thankfully there’s a lot of progress happening amid the stress, but it’s not all observable yet. That’s why I ended up participating in Blaugust…
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BlizzCon 2026 will be arriving at the end of the week. On Saturday September 12th we’ll get the big keynote speech that will reveal the plans for the company for the next year or so.
BlizzCon 2026
It is too late to get tickets to be there in person. Those sold out ages ago.
Also, I will note that there are at least TWO aspects to the event to consider. There is the in-person event, which I know people who attend regularly enjoy. I’ve never been and it is unlikely I ever will, but the fact that t…
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Thinking about music ahead of the music memories blog carnival and I need to exorcise these ear worms that are plaguing me.
The other week I watched Jurassic Park. It's still a great film. In part I thought to watch it because I heard the theme tune weeks earlier and the Jurassic Park theme is possibly my ultimate ear worm. Once it gets in it's there for weeks. So I thought I might as well watch the film and be singing it a few weeks more.
Last week we were away at my in-laws and did a forty-eig…
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Words Under My Name
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I’ve finished both of my “Summer Project” games, and am now at an impasse. I don’t know what I want to play now. I have options, an actual written backlog I want to tackle, but nothing speaks to me right now. And so I’m just kind of “floating”, waiting on something to strike.
This summer, my big project games were Final Fantasy VII, and Doom: The Dark Ages, and as of yesterday, they’re both completed. I could start FFVII Remake, or pick up Dark Ages Revelations, but I feel like I need a “cooldow…
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First off, credit where credit is due. I pilfered the idea for this post from Mark Rogers who writes the Newsonaut blog. Apparently it’s a questionnaire that has been doing the rounds across various indie blogs for a while. However, it happens to ask some interesting questions about one’s reading habits. I read a book every month or so and I supplement this by listening to a lot of audiobooks. Yes, I’m aware they’re not the same thing entirely but both offer a means to consume and digest a book.…
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A comparison between my Warrior and Paladin combos upon finishing the quest for the Fiery Avenger.
Related posts:
EverQuest Legends: Analysis Paralysis
EverQuest Legends: Where’s the lore?
EverQuest Legends: Dogs and cats living together, MASS HYSTERIA!
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We are back with some more actual video game releases here in week thirty-six.
Fantasy Critic League – Like Fantasy Football, but for Video Games
We had four titles lined up for release in the league this week. Surely somebody much have made out with that many titles in play. But first we have to stop and look at where we ended up last week on the scoreboard.
Week 35 Scores
First out of the gate was The Blood of Dawnwalker, a open world dark fantasy title.
The Blood of Dawnwalker
That rolled on…
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For a little while I have been using YouTube way more, and even paid for the Lite subscription model, simply to test it out.
Honestly, it hasn’t been too bad, and I actually really, really enjoy a lot of the videos I’ve gotten through the algorithm.
But of course, YouTube Shorts have caught up with me and continue to be a very annoying problem, wasting seconds, minutes and hours of my time at every moment.
The algorithm does show some interesting things, or funny content I enjoy, but things go d…
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Prettier is a JavaScript-based formatter that I use for this very site’s codebase, since it is quite extensible and can handle a wide variety of formats. I recently noticed a specific quirk with it where you need to specifically pre-format JSX in a certain way to get a specific output from it. With this source document and no formatting configured:
<Figure
src={lego_dino_onesie}
alt="A large red LEGO character wearing a dino onesie holding a small dinosaur egg"
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Bookmarked: AI, tools and transformation — Benedict Evans Do you want to work out how to deploy an LLM-enabled voice analytics tool in your call center? You’re probably going to call Accenture. The vendors themselves have always been happy to help, and now the big labs have their own ‘deploycos’ - we used to joke that a ‘machine learning scientist’ is a statistician who lives in San Francisco, so maybe a ‘forward deployed engineer’ is anyone that OpenAI hired from a systems integrator. On the ot…
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For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been learning about using Linux for personal computing. This is simply a result of following my curiosity. It may have started from watching one of the videos recommended to me by YouTube. It could also have been from a post I read on a blog. Whatever the cause may be, I’m hooked.
The next thing you know, you’re learning about that thing as much as you can. Time ceases to exist. You stay up late. You keep watching despite the evening yawns. There is something a…
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At the very beginning of August, I made a hasty and last-minute decision to participate in Blaugust 2026 [1], an indieweb community blogging event that encourages writers to develop their writing habits by posting more frequently. It's an entirely voluntary, honor system, no-stakes situation. Just a way to for those who are already interested in this stuff to absorb a little extra motivation from being part of a community effort.
In a recent post about answering song title questions, I touched o…
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This was gonna be kind of a copout blog just to score one more post before the month ends, for reasons that will be explained at the end. However, the usual happened, so I have time to turn it into a bigger retrospective of how blogging's going.
Ambience, if you wish for one:
Publishing on an actual blog rather than posting through it on fedi/bluesky is a completely different feeling. I heard somewhere that you shouldn't tell others you're planning to do something difficult, because your brain w…
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Eh readers will get bored of clicking on pangram every time. AI as a tool for writing is much more interesting when used by people who would have been interesting if they had the time to write… The revolt of the reader | The Observation Deck
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Hey There!
It's 7:32 AM EDT, 59°F, Humidity 74%, Wind 5 mph SE, clear
I'm not sure that temperature reading is accurate, because my thermometer reads 62°, but it it a chilly morning. I had to choose between going out on the porch or sitting in the study to write this morning. I chose the study, with the window open. A compromise.
Yesterday after morning routine and a walk, I spent the day experimenting with my new hearing aids. I'm having difficulty adjusting to them for two reasons. The first i…
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vanderwal.net Off the Top
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Today I thought I may be able to tackle 2 of the 6 tasks for features and functionality I want to take care of before moving the Category page in the Lab to the production side. Well, one of the tasks (the definitions) I knew is going to be pushed out as it going to take sit down and type words time. The other sort of large task was going to break some ease of use functionality and breaking something I find helpful is a bit of a problem, but also adds odd friction.
What Got Done
I was able to kn…