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Christopherhimes.com
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Working throught some organizational stuff in JIRA at work. The level of nested items with Inititatives containing Epics and them containing Stories can be a little difficult to know the state of things. I have some ideas on how to flatten the reporting.
Practiced guitar a couple times.
Should have read through these classes earlier if for no other reason than getting the books ordered. Had to wait to get the reading done and then Thursday happened.
Thursday storms took out a third of…
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Joelchrono's Blog
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Don’t worry, I can connect to Wi-Fi networks, I just lost mobile data access and phone calls with my current SIM chip.
You see, the silly government of my beautiful country decided that the best way to stop scam, blackmail and other crimes via phone calls would be to force everyone into registering their phone numbers with their ID card and a face scan with the phone’s camera.
A huge percentage of the population never did this on the original deadline and the plan utterly failed. No phone compan…
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Brennan.day
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For my entire life, I have been aware that I must die, and that my time alive is finite. This has always been a helpful motivator in doing important things, such as writing hundreds of words each day. When you recognize the timescale of epochs and eras, you also recognize how short your own existence is, and how pressing and urgent your actions must be.
And for the most part, this has oriented me towards good—I want to try to leave the world better than I found it, and make use of my capabilitie…
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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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Joelchrono's Blog
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August was a very interesting month, given the arrival of Blaugust, the summer vacation and a lot of my gaming progression done during all of it. I have recently realized how little I have to say about the month itself here when I keep saying a bunch of stuff for my weeknotes. For a while I’ve seen some people saying I should stick to either monthly or weekly stuff, and perhaps they have a point.
At the same time, I like this format quite a bit, so let’s get to the media I enjoyed during the las…
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Byte Vortex
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I won't do a rehash of the previous article that I wrote back in February of 2026. It was a very lengthy process and since its birth, I've updated some things. If you want to go read that, please do that now before continuing further in this post or you will be lost as hell.
With a lot of projects, testing, updating, re-testing, and improvements are bound to happen. This project is no different and 6 months later, it's time for an update post.
What did I add:
A new way to keep the token regenera…
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Recently I caught up on an older 32-Bit Cafe thread[1] that discussed the death of the power user in computing. The post linked by OP had some really strange ideas of what a power user looked like back in the day - really, power users used to understand DNS and IP routing? I think not - and was almost certainly written by AI, but it got me thinking about what I would consider characteristics of a power user in 2026.
Here are some ideas I have about different categories of users, ranging from the…
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Now, August 2026: Wrapping up Blaugust and other titbits
These days, I’m unsure of how to reply to simple questions like How are you?. My default response is now something along the lines of, health issues aside, I’m okay. Recently, an acquaintance replied to my feeble attempt at an answer with the unexpected Well, at least you’re still alive, right?. Fair point, I guess.
Brief Blaugust reflections
This month, I’ve written thirteen posts for Blaugust, including this one. I wasn’t aiming for any…
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A parenthetical departure
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I still don't understand the unspoken social rules of the indieweb yet, like:
Why do people think it's okay to, without consent, quote a private email with identifying information in a public post?
Just because bloggers write in public doesn't mean their private emails are included in that. Is the line between public and private so blurry?
If someone did that to me, it'd break my trust:
Emails to me are just like IRL one-on-one conversations, words shared in confidence. If I wanted my words to b…
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Cubic Creativity
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It is time for winter; in midst of August no less. Coldsnap has a special place in my heart, not only because I started playing Magic the Gathering back in the day right after it released but also because I … Continue reading →
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Due to recent reports about “AI”/LLM/“agent” tools and services, I have growing concerns that the #security properties of the open web are changing, or have already changed, in practice, to a degree that we haven’t seen in many years.This past week’s articles / reports on further investigations and details of the OpenAI Hugging Face intrusion / incident: * OpenAI report: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/67869394-cb91-4c12-888c-5cbd85c7814c/OpenAI-Hugging-Face%20Incident-Technical-Report.pdf* 2026-08-2…
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JAG’s Workshop
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XCancel:
On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel.
The service XCancel is stopped until further notice.
We are seeking legal advice and won't share more details for now.
Thank you for the trust you have put in these two years of XCancel.
(Read TechCrunch’s coverage of the cease-and-desist against Nitter, the open source software powering XCancel.)
XCancel allowed you to view posts on X/Twitter without contributing views a…
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Chasing Dings!
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Groucho Marx once said, “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” He also said, “I refuse to join a club that would have me as a member.” I followed a bit of a rabbit hole, today. I was reading Kelly Adams’ post ... Read more
Related posts:
EverQuest Legends: Where’s the lore?
Manchester CT: Cruisin’ Main Street
EverQuest Legends: Dogs and cats living together, MASS HYSTERIA!
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The Friendly Necromancer
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At first glance the patch notes for version five of Poetry Slammers don't seem all that large, but the pipeline for creating a new campaign circuit was deepening quite a bit. Whenever I added a new circuit, the following had to be created:
A campaign strip with three new venues
Separated building icons for each new venue
One themed exterior background
One themed interior background
15 new puzzles (five for each venue)
A new judge character
A new speaking animation set for the judge
A new slammer…
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Indiecator
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Laptops, controllers, and other hardware were stolen over night at this year's Gamescom - and yet, the organizers are doing nothing about it despite promising 24/7 security.
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MMO Casual
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Every month I post how many hours I played. Not roughly. Not "a fair bit." A number, down to the minutes. May came in at 7 hours and 30 minutes. June was 5 hours and 5 minutes.
I've only been doing this for about two and a half years, which surprises people who assume a guy who blogs his playtime has been at it since Wrath. I hadn't. I'd wanted to for ages and never had a decent way to do it.
What changed is that my friend Kevin Brill built an app called TempusGameIt, and the moment it existed t…
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Sylvia’s Studio
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This is the fourth post in my series called Hitting the Digital Brakes, where I explore my journey into my use of technology to ditching some aspects of it now.
The first post in the series was about the joys of imperfection and in the second post I asked if we really need the latest tech. The third post was on how my e-reader made me a worse reader.
And now, cloud computing.
When I signed up for my first cloud account, I was so happy. I had lost several files in backup mishaps (failing Zip driv…
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The Friendly Necromancer
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Version 4 added both content and changes that I felt were the next natural evolution of the prototype I was building.
I asked a couple of friends at work what the next character should be for my campgrounds circuit. One of my friends at work is named Sue, but everyone calls her Yogi. I'm not sure how that nickname came to be, but Yogi loves bunnies more than any other animal in the world. She owns seven of them and makes yearly calendars featuring her bunnies. Her desk at work is covered with ce…
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Hey There!
It;s 7:34 AM EDT, 63°F, Humidity 78%, Wind 8 mph N, overcast, AQI 42
Yesterday was a bit of a hellish day. I cracked through my morning routine and added a walk as well. Arriving back home, I had a bit of breakfast, and then got down to business pretty quickly.
Let me just say right here that the whole entire day was eaten up by working on getting my computers in shape for donation, and working on high finance with Son2 for his house. Between those two activities my day was completely…
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MMO Casual
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This seems like an obligatory thing for someone who plays WoW frequently to write about, so I'm not going to fight the obligation. The list is shorter than you'd think for a nineteen-year player, but it has been obviously impacted by the recent addon apocalypse.
Baganator. Bags. This is the one I'd fight over. When you have as many characters as I do, the bag addon stops being a convenience and becomes infrastructure. One search box, everything I own, across every character and every bank tab. D…
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As we draw near to the last days (Of Blaugust! Put that bug out bag back!) I feel I don't need to hoard my ideas like a cartoon dragon trying to spread all four limbs and a tail across a heap of gold coins. With just five days to go, I think I ought to be able to come up with something for each of them without having to stretch an idea worth a couple of paragraphs into a full post.
And with that in mind, it's Grab Bag time. Three or four things that would strain anyone's patience, stretched to f…
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Notes by JCProbably
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I had a best friend in middle school. Our birthdays are two days apart, except I’m a year older than her. For two days every year, we would joke that we were the same age. It was one of those silly little things that probably didn’t mean much to anyone else, but we made something of it between us.
We stayed in touch over the years and would meet up occasionally, even way after high school and college. When I still lived on the East Coast, it was relatively easy. We weren’t even in the same state…
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Friends come and go. Lasting friendships are not that unusual either. There are people in my life I have known for decades. Contact can be sporadic, sustained for a time or come in a flurry. Regardless of the duration the connection between us seems as strong as ever. We pick up where we left off without effort. Shared experiences, memories, likes, beliefs and values serve as a common anchor in the ocean of time our separate lives navigate through.
These are not necessarily the same people I mig…
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82MHz
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I linked this article by JA Westenberg in my last linkdump, and in it she mentions that she has a "How I AI" section on the about page of her blog. A different post I read this week talks about the authenticity of digital art in an age where everybody can just slop generate everything with a few prompts. And then there's this line I read somewhere, I forgot where: "If you can't be bothered to write it, I can't be bothered to read it". And so I thought I'd put together my thoughts on AI usage on…