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I had three old WordPress blogs that were just decaying out there on the Internet, using up power and space for nothing. Those three old sites haven't been updated since somewhere around 2018, so it's safe to say they weren't going to suddenly spring back to life. In the development world, we love to build and deploy things, but we rarely think about destroying them when their usefulness has…
Oh my. I'm caught in the awkward position of not having a post prepared for this morning. It kind of feels "normal" to post every day now. I was on a roll there for a while, on a comfortable pace getting posts prepped the afternoon before. It's not that I don't have posts drafted. It's that it's taking a long time for some domain names to change nameservers and propagate, so I can't talk about…
I have hummingbirds now. Some time ago, I walked into the kitchen and saw, to my surprise, a hummingbird flitting around outside the kitchen windows. It was hovering at the glass, seemingly peering inside, like it was casing the joint, looking for something. It went back and forth between two windows before flying away. It's not the first time I've seen a hummingbird around the house during…
Another day, another major upgrade to the blog platform. This time I've added support for sending webmentions and pingbacks to external sites referenced in posts. I think you can probably guess how I did it by now: I used Antigravity to build out the serverless Lambda functions I required, adding onto the previous Bathtub Robot repo which handled sending fediverse notifications. I asked…
A couple of quick health updates: 1) My brain MRI came back without anything unusual, 2) This infusion cycle has been going better than usual, 3) I still can't bend my right thumb, but I got a referral to a hand specialist. Now on to the topic du jour. A New Blogroll I've been meaning to add a dynamic blogroll to my static Hugo site for years. Yesterday I finally started researching the…
There's been a handful of posts floating around recently talking about a community site or blog aggregator. The End of the Daily Blogroll – West Karana Commune Living – Scopique’s Addressing the Community Site Idea – Scopique’s Proof of Concept – RSS On Steroids – Scopique’s Community Blogging Platform | welshtroll It started with Tipa discontinuing The Daily Blogroll . I thought it was a cool…
I have no idea anymore. I went looking for a Final Fantasy XIV screenshot of a scene that I vividly remember from what I thought was Heavensward but was actually from the post-credits part of A Realm Reborn, before Heavensward. The only problem is, my gaming PC currently has almost no screenshots on it. It only has the screenshots I've snapped since last year, which isn't very many. I rarely take…
I was going to talk about community sites and aggregators but I'm not quite ready to post that yet. Instead, I'm going to blast through the 100 questions for webmasters which was referenced on the Blaugust discord. I don't know where it came from or who wrote it or when it was written, but it sounds fairly ancient given the use of the term "webmaster." 1. Please introduce yourself. Hi, I'm Tom…
Morning! I'm back from an early morning "simulation CT" appointment where the radiology folks mapped out the pelvic bone they're going to zap with radiation. They said it would be 2-3 weeks to get on the schedule for that. It was really quick and easy, and most of my time was spent driving there and back. Otherwise, I wanted to address a comment Bhagpuss left on my last post that I pretty much…
Oof. It's definitely an "I don't feel like writing" kind of morning, so I will pull from the stack of drafts. Blogging daily is a real chore and/or takes up a lot of time; it's impossible to imagine doing this outside of Blaugust. I also don't like feeling the constant compulsion to keep checking other blogs and feeds and social media and discord all the time. I had largely detoxed from that over…
Morning! I've long since lost count of how many chemo infusions I've gotten, but ChatGPT calculates today will be my 20th since I started last July, which sounds right to me. For the post this morning, I'm going to review my topic notes and throw out some accumulating thoughts. Many of the topics I've written down just don't warrant a post, and I can cover them in the size of a tweet. Taboo Blog…
Morning! Happy Monday. It's officially the start of a new chemotherapy cycle for me. We're back right where we were last time . Today it's steroid pills at home, tomorrow it's a trip to the infusion center for pemetrexed and bonus bone strengthener zoledronic acid. Then, if all goes according to schedule, we can look forward to feeling tired, sick, dehydrated, and malnourished Friday, Saturday,…
I only heard of HTML Day for the first time this year when Aywren posted about it. Then I saw another Blaugust post referencing it. And another. And another. Celebrate HTML Day 2026 on August 8! - Aywren's Nook | Gaming & Geek Blog HTML Day: How to Join the Annual HTML Energy Event HTML Day 2026 - with words, wonder HTML Day | lyonsinbeta Happy HTML Day | welshtroll Apologies if I missed any. So I…
