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Brennan.day
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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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“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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JAG’s Workshop
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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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msfjarvis.dev
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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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Inventory Full
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I was very circumspect during Blaugust. I didn't post about AI even once. Just a few ironic asides, here and there. It was tough, though. It's just so much more interesting to write about than most of the other options.
Here's the thing: putting to one side for the moment, if you can, all the appalling collateral damage the rush to dominate the AI space is causing - pollution, climate chaos, mass unemployment, wholesale theft of intellectual property, the imminent collapse of the global economy…
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Cubic Creativity
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Game: PalworldDeveloper: PocketpairGenre: Role-Playing GameReleases: 2026 (Windows)Stalk’s Rating: 8/10 “Pokemon” is a household name these days, with a long series of games and so much merchandise that any number that come up in sales figures can only be described as “breathtaking”. Now, as is … Continue reading →
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Lameazoid.com
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I wrote a while back about building a “keyboard jiggler” with my Raspberry Pi Pico board. Overtime I modified and improved it a bit to also work with mouse presses (hold M1). Basic keyboard commands were fine for idling in Fortnite LEGO, but for Droid Tycoon, I needed to be able to press a mouse. I also added an on/off toggle was supposed to get a button but I never got around to soldering a button to it and just short the pins with a wire to start and stop it.
I also started improving it with h…
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What the Fran
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I visited the Blaugust participants and these are my favourite blog posts from the second half of the month, following up from 132 Blaugust posts. A bunch of them are end of August wrap-up types because I'm always interested.
Sadly I only read English so for the blogs in other languages I've tried to link something cool. Otherwise they, and other blogs that 404ed or didn't have new posts, etc, are at the end of this list.
Sacrificing something for something 20ily April
I used to be excited about…
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prin.lu
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This assembled keyboard just arrived through the post. It's called CORNIX LP. To be honest, I have a "corne" keyboard kit to be assembled for many years waiting for me to find time and dedication to tackle it, but, well, I just didn't. It's not that I sat empty handed being bored. Anyway, the other day I came across this offer online, and, apart from the fact that it is already assembled, it's also wireless. That just pushed me over.
And now it's here and it is very hard to type on it - I…
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82MHz
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A few days ago Ruben wrote a quick post about finding a FIGlet in the Internet Archive's HTML code. What's a FIGlet? "FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text". ASCII-art, in other words. Curiously, I can't find this in the Internet Archive's sources, I don't know where he saw it... But either way, I think that's a cute idea, so I also put this in my site's sources now. It's a silly little thing, but I like it :)
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Tantek Çelik
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How to add MapQuest with a search shortcut to your Firefox:1. open Firefox Preferences ("Firefox" menu, "Preferences" item)2. select "🔍 Search" from the left column3. click the [ + Add search engine ] button4. enter "MapQuest" into the Search engine name field (without quotes)5. enter "https://www.mapquest.com/search/%s" into the URL field (without quotes)6. enter "m" into the Keyword field (without quotes)If you already had an "m" search shortcut for another search engine, you may need to first…
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Words of the AgingGamer
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Sony would like you to know that any reasonable gamer would know that purchasing a game is just licensing a game (Video Games Chronicle), not owning it. And there is truth mixed in with a bold-faced lie in that statement.
There is also a comically bad argument about ownership mixed in there that I am still chuckling about. I’m sure lawyers wouldn’t laugh as much as I am, but it sounds stupid to me so let’s go with that.
What gamers know
An average gamer, and I would hesitate to call such a beast…
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Tabitha
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be Bea
light within
see as it shines
do walk with me
the hand that feeds
rolling in the deep
sea blue abyss
new to this
to two
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Byte Vortex
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Okay so there won't be a whole lot discussed in this dev log. Last month was a doozy of a month for posts (obviously), and if you haven't read any of those, here is the quick tl;dr: I had to cancel my TTRPG session last month due to a huge real life thing happening (good news, not bad). I managed to talk about the game, though, so that's a win in my book. None of the things I wanted to fix from last time got done, since I was busy balancing everything else I'm doing — but this month it'll happen…
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Newsonaut
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My post about Firefox generated a lively discussion on Hacker News, with many good points raised.
The top comment (as of this writing) summed things up well: “It's exactly because Firefox is so important that you'll see people here complaining when Firefox does things to push away users . . .”
Overall, the passion for Firefox was on full display. I hope Mozilla staffers take this thread as feedback and use it to improve Firefox in ways that boost market share.
I kind of regret my reference to “o…
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Inventory Full
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It's all there in the header: free stuff! Come grab it.
I'll get to what the free stuff is, exactly, in a bit.
I have a bit of a problem with EverQuest II just at the moment. I'd like to slot it into my gaming rota (Hah! Like I have one!) which currently consists of Neverness To Everness, New World, Wuthering Waves (When I get a free couple of hours that aren't going to be interrupted by dogs. Or one specific dog, I should say. It's not like random dogs run in off the street and hassle me to com…
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Matt's Blog
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I haven’t done one of these in forever, so it’s time to get back on the wagon.
Blaugust 2026
Complete bust. I wrote 3 posts in 31 days. That’s actually more than I thought, but it wasn’t great. I haven’t done well blogging this year at all, so it’s not that much of a surprise. Maybe I can rectify that in the last half of the year. For those of you who participated in Blaugust 2026, hope you had a good time.
The App Ecosystm
I’ve continued to create new apps that help with parts of my life and wo…
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Joelchrono's Blog
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You have probably heard of this one, it is an award winning title that came out around 2019 and has been making the rounds as one of the best videogames of all time. I had heard of it when it came out, often confused with Outer Worlds which came out in the same year, but other than it being about exploring space, I didn’t know much about it. Last year, when I beat 1000xRESIST—another incredible game you should definitely play—my friend Jeremy kept pushing me to try this one next. I completed lik…
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Brennan.day
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I'm somebody who's written rather extensively on generative AI ethics, and I feel there is a lot that is unethical about the current corporate climate and culture surrounding the technology. And when I write about LLMs and chatbots, I'm careful not to make judgments about the people using the end products—I don't think you're a bad person if you use ChatGPT or Claude, or whatever.
What I'm discussing today is different. There is no room for debate or argument, here—only hard, absolute lines in t…
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K-Squared Ramblings
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I didn’t manage daily blogging past day 12, or 31 posts in the month. I wrote 20 posts, including reviews of two books, a game, my dying phone and its replacement. I also finished some older drafts and revived my dormant Les Mis blog with a Star Trek post (really). Read More…
The post Blaugust 2026 Wrap-Up first appeared on K-Squared Ramblings
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Tantek Çelik
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Welcome to September! Time for a new blogging challenge for the month. After some ideation, here’s my proposed September blogging challenge, on topics I find myself reading and posting about, with an emphasis on pragmatism:The Web And Standards September Useful Posts blogging challengeOr the #WASSUP challenge for short.I really enjoyed the #Blaugust blogging challenge last month (31 posts ✅ — summary in another post), and not feeling a resonance with the two prior September challenges noted on t…
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Ubergeek Kelly's World
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I spent a bit of time on Monday adding a PHP code snippet to my WordPress site that outputs a total monthly word count and average word count per post to the archives page. This is far from a complex bit of code, and I used AI to get the basics, but here it is.
PHP snippet to add word counts
A few notes:
This code only works on WordPress
it is best used with a plugin like WPCode or Code Snippets to allow such small blocks of code to be added without interfering with WordPress’ built in code func…
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Taxodium
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TIL:Punycode
域名中的 Unicode
之前看了 マリウス 的 disable-javascript.org，我就用 Elfeed 訂閱了他的博客，但後面一直在 Elfeed 裡看到拉取报錯，錯誤信息如下：
[error]: https://マリウス.com/index.xml: "(60) Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with known CA certificates."
Elfeed 是用 curl 發請求的(前提是 elfeed-use-curl 為 t)，直接用 curl 請求的話，报錯是：
curl: (35) LibreSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to マリウス.com:443
之後我去問了 Kagi Assistant，經過一些排查後，終於找到了問題。
留意請求的域名，你會發現 你会讶异，你是我最压抑，最深处的秘密 ，我請求的域名是 マリウス.com 。但是 域名只支持 ASCII ，而 マリウス 顯然不是 ASCII ，而是 Unic…
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Tantek Çelik
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There are many paths onto the #indieweb. Two of the most common:1. an idea for a name and a website2. a desire to create and express yourself, independently of social mediaIf you start with (1), have an idea for a domain name, find one, and buy it, then you need a place to direct it to.The simplest next step is setting up a content hosting service, and configuring it with your new domain name.If you start with (2), a desire to create and publish, then similarly, the simplest first step is to set…
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Byte Vortex
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As this year's Blaugust comes to a close, there's some things to reflect upon. I originally signed ByteVortex up to participate in the event in order to get my butt back into writing and essentially documenting all of the various projects I find myself doing. Turns out, that was a pretty tall order while trying to balance everything else in my busy life. Needless to say, we did it – well, at least the posting five times. There's another article that I have started, but I don't think I can bust t…