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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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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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<Gallery>
<Figure
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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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Tantek Çelik
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The #Blaugust 2026 blogging challenge had a nice set of awards this year based on reaching a certain number of posts published:* 1* — Newbie Blogger. *if it was your first time doing Blaugust * 5+ — Bronze* 15+ — Silver* 25+ — Gold* 31+ — Rainbow DiamondFrom https://nerdgirlthoughts.game.blog/2026/07/15/blaugust-2026-is-coming/.These levels, and the total for the duration (rather than one per day) made the challenge more inviting, accessible, and fun, removing (most of) the stress of a typical d…
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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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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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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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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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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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Brennan.day
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I really miss chain-letter-style questionnaires, which I often participated in on sites like deviantART and Nexopia many years ago.
There's been one floating around specifically designed for webmasters created by MOUSEcky! Initially, I wasn’t going to answer these questions, since I feel I've covered a lot of them already over the course of my writing, in addition to my interview with Zacharay Kai and podcast appearance on Wonders of Webweaving.
But then I saw that Shen has been keeping an impre…
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The Friendly Necromancer
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Whew! We made it the current build of Poetry Slammers! Version .07 did a lot. Besides adding a new campaign circuit (a monumental task in and of itself), scoring was rebuilt, an infinity mode was added to the game, and a whole slew of word packs were added to the shop.
I hope you get to press Start to play soon!
Being as we're in the middle of summer, it kind of felt appropriate to add a waterpark circuit to slamtown. Sure, I mean, who reads poetry at a waterpark? BUT THIS ISN'T ANY WATERPARK, i…
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I ponder how crowdfunders are not real stakeholders and thus can have no input on the goals and timeframes.
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Academic Aesthetic
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(This is my thirty-first and final post in a series of entries I’m using to participate in Blaugust for 2026, but that doesn’t mean I’m done.)
The Why
I did Blaugust this year on a whim.
No, that’s not entirely true. I did it to procrastinate other tasks on my to-do list, and to get myself back into blogging after a very significant break. My brain needed some kind of goal to focus on in order to get past that “I can always start tomorrow” wall.
But also on a whim.
But also because a friend of m…
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Brennan.day
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In the past few days, Debian has held a lengthy and rather bureaucratic vote on how the project will handle genAI and LLM contributions moving forward. There were eight possible options, ranging from a ban to full acceptance, decided by Debian's Condorcet voting system.
The winner was for permissive usage, #5 "Responsible Use of Generative AI" proposed by Marc Haber. Disclosure of AI use is encouraged, not required, and the policy explicitly ducks the copyright status question. To get into the w…
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BongoTwisty
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For todays The DS106 Daily Create
Cliffe Fort, May 2016
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JAG’s Workshop
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OpenAI:
Today, we notified SpaceX that we intend to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026. […] We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk’s companies violating contracts.
What a remarkable statement—and accusation—to make publicly. Such comments are generally couched in opaque corporate speak. Points to OpenAI…
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Inventory Full
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Joar of MMO Casual has a post up about tracking gaming hours. As I was saying only the other day, it's not a thing I've ever done, or not with any precision or intent, at least. I've always been happy enough with a rough estimate.
It used to be very easy, back when I was working something close to full time. I could add up evenings and weekends and come to something pretty close. Playing mostly one MMORPG at any given time made it easier to keep track, too.
Sidebar: I've actually not worked full…
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It’s great to see BASIC still referenced in pop culture (see my last BASIC post, BASIC in Tron: Ares). Cabel Sasser found an amazing Easter egg in the latest Lego Batman: a BASIC program that you can type in and run on a Commodore 64. So he did precisely that.
Check it out.
Cabel Sasser@cabel@social.panic.com
Here’s an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of yourwill REALLY appreciate.
It’s so good, I had to make a video.
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Yesterday, as Pokémon TCG World Championships started, we were following the tournament with friends. With 1500+ players, it’s not easy to quickly find the results of specific players from the long lists of results.
I decided to build a simple bookmarklet:
Define a list of players you want to follow
Every time you run the bookmarklet, it will show those players and their most recent win/loss records on an alert box and copy to clipboard.
At some point, it suddenly stopped working. It only found…
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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.
Welcome to Z. The last day of our journey through Python from A to Z.
I initially considered writing about zip but I already wrote about zip in Batteries included two years ago and I don’t have anything new to say abo…
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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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Brennan.day
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August is ending, and yet today's high is going to be 28+°C, that unseasonable summer air in early fall.
With my fan humming away, I wrote yesterday about how, for the first time, I've exceeded my free Netlify bandwidth of 100GB for the month, with five days still left to go. Everything is fine as of right now, but I've gone ahead anyways and wired up my homelab to be able to run this site, replacing the various functions and webhooks with MySQL databases and Caddy files in Docker. Containers st…