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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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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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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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theTangentSpace
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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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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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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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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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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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src={lego_din…
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aneeshsathe.com
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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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Rishi Dass
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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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michcia's notes
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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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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…
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Sal's
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I added a dark-theme toggle to this blog about a month ago.
Later, I saw Lea Verou’s post, The best dark mode toggle is probably none:
However, my biggest insight from all of this is that while I stand by my original recommendation that in most cases, if you are going to have a dark mode toggle that is visible at all times, it should only have two states (system and opposite), I now think that for the vast majority of websites, you should not have such a toggle at all.
Lea’s post made me realize…
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aneeshsathe.com
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Bookmarked: Why Transformers Need Positional Encoding For Time Series: A Visual Guide | Towards Data Science
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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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Ubergeek Kelly's World
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·Kelly Adams
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I previously recounted an issue with my blog server wherein the MariaDB failed to start after a Fedora update. I found a work-around for that problem to get the blogs back up and running but the underlying issue remained: each time the server rebooted the MariaDB database would fail to start due to a missing /run/mariadb folder.
The root cause
My workaround involved manually re-creating the /run/mariadb folder each time the server restarted. This means I have to be aware of when the server might…
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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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Byte Vortex
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After an in unusually soft launch that lasted way more than expected, publishing has turned a bit more regular in the site for a while, we're still experimenting with formats and content, but we hope that our growth pains end up in an enjoyable site for you all. Here are some of the write-ups we've done recently:
Back on mid-August, we published another Raspberry-Pi oriented guide that explains both the conditions and consequences that pushed our resident tinkerer to move away from her tried and…
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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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vanderwal.net Off the Top
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Little by little I’ve been tackling some of the functional needs for this site. As I went through the initial look at the analytics for my blog and site related to content (see Personal Blog Data Analysis - Looking at 25 Years) I see needs from a use perspective from visitor / reader perspectives.
I have many categories (210 as of today) and most posts have at least two categories on them. Categories are a means for a reader to click on them and find more posts that are similar, or contain simil…
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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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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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TAGN
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I stuck around in Blackburrow until I hit level 14. At that point I felt like it was time to move on.
EverQuest Legends
It wasn’t that the xp had run dry or that things had gotten too easy. I could have hung around for at least one more level… maybe as many as three… making decent progress in leveling up.
But that assumes a world wherein leveling up is my primary goal.
If we’re to be frank dear reader, my interest in levels or achievements or mastering my class combo is fairly low. There are dis…
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pixel area
I feel like one of the Chosen Ones, picked to go on a quest, or something esoteric, finding myself over on a very new website whose sole purpose is to connect us all to one another by a single pixel. A simple piece of art that is both fun and yet, purposeful.
I feel seen.
Seen at Pixel Area.
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Malvaltar mentioned in the comments the other day that the inaccessible part of the city of Hethereau, to the east of the river, had been redeveloped. It's a large area, easily as big as any of the existing districts, and it's been there since the game started but we've never been able to go there.
It supposedly can't be visited by NPCs either since the two bridges are closed, although only one is physically blocked to traffic. I guess an NPC could walk across even if none of them seem to be doi…