# look good (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover look good. Page: Feed: --- ## [Hmmm](https://actualspine.bearblog.dev/hmmm/) _2026-08-22 · actualspine · An Actual Spine_ Have been thinking of writing essays on past friendships that have ended but I gotta draw today wahhhh ## [blah blah](https://actualspine.bearblog.dev/blah-blah/) _2026-08-18 · actualspine · An Actual Spine_ For causing such a huge drama, I've gotta say that new site design looks underwhelmingly shitty lmao ## [I Made My Blog Button!](https://actualspine.bearblog.dev/i-made-my-blog-button/) _2026-08-16 · actualspine · An Actual Spine_ First of all, holy shit balls , I did it! I finally made my bearblog site a 88×31 button! After I made my own bearblog, I got into browsing blogs, neocities sites, and personal websites through webrings once in awhile. Opening webrings, of course you'd see each websites' buttons, so ever since then I have wanted to make my own button. The main issues, though, were one, I have never made any pixel… ## [I love](https://actualspine.bearblog.dev/i-love/) _2026-08-13 · actualspine · An Actual Spine_ having a website of my own. Longer form for my fragments. My memories in snapshots. Riding my motorbike home, I daydream about what other things to add or to remove. Thinking about conversations. Thinking about old friendships. Thinking about me, leaving things behind. Thinking about what to write which, I suppose, is just me thinking about what to ponder on. Relational bonds crashing and burning.… ## [Stardew Valley](https://actualspine.bearblog.dev/stardew-valley/) _2026-08-09 · actualspine · An Actual Spine_ Dang, I got so into Stardew Valley in the past several days LOL I haven't had hilltop farm layout before and wtf I love it so much. The river going through the middle of the farm is so pretty surrounded by trees 😭😭 ## [Boredom](https://actualspine.bearblog.dev/boredom/) _2026-08-06 · actualspine · An Actual Spine_ I have never been this bored. Not in my entire 30+ years. This is not an exaggeration. Everything I do, I'm doing too quickly. I learned cooking; now I can cook. I learned coding; now my blog site looks good. I cleaned up my room; it's all decorated now. I don't feel like going out because it's been humid and hot outside. I don't feel like drawing for some reason, unless it's for commissions. I… ## [Haha like funny but also wince-inducing](https://actualspine.bearblog.dev/haha-like-funny/) _2026-08-04 · actualspine · An Actual Spine_ Aight so, super funny story, but I just found out that my guestbook has been in error for...god knows how long and the verification question kept giving invalid result LOL I tried it out myself earlier and 💀💀💀 couldn't even get the answer right myself. Anyway, disabling that verification question so like...hopefully it works now because ugh genuinely embarrassing for me ## [holy shit](https://actualspine.bearblog.dev/holy-shit/) _2026-08-04 · actualspine · An Actual Spine_ Holy shit done updating my bearblog theme and oh my god it looks so good!!!!!! Although it should be!!!! It took me six hours!!!!! ## [to do list](https://actualspine.bearblog.dev/to-do-list/) _2026-08-03 · actualspine · An Actual Spine_ To do list: Website 88x13 pixel button Some black and white doodles to scatter around the blog I KEEP FORGETTING THIS!! ## [my favorite author just passed away](https://actualspine.bearblog.dev/my-favorite-author/) _2026-08-02 · actualspine · An Actual Spine_ Just heard today that Benjamin Alire Sáenz passed away and it hit me like a truck. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe and Last Night I Sang to the Monster by him quite literally saved my life during the hardest years of my mental illness. The quote, "The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea" stayed with me all through the first years of my first full-time… ## [100,000 Bonus Points Await You (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/phD1mSTYRlMn) _2026-08-02 · **Sponsored**_ Earn 100,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 in the first 3 months. ## [pulling the head](https://actualspine.bearblog.dev/pulling-the-head/) _2026-07-31 · actualspine · An Actual Spine_ Many words I can say but the most important of all: good riddance. If the issue truly is that person involved wanting to read more good writing, then by all means good blog entries are available in the discovery feed everyday if you'd only have patience to check them out instead of just scrolling the trending feed. Personally, I check the discovery feed every a few days or so if not everyday after… ## [i want to draw today](https://actualspine.bearblog.dev/i-want/) _2026-07-30 · actualspine · An Actual Spine_ I want to draw today. This might just be my hypomanic cycle but I'm going to make use of it as much as I can. This time last year, I was running myself to the ground trying to handle everything, most of those things weren't even about me. It's strange being so free to make whatever I want now. No art store to tend, no conflict-avoidants who held back their tongue until they exploded inside an… ## [I Sit Myself in the Attic Room with Skylights](https://actualspine.bearblog.dev/i-sit-myself/) _2026-07-29 · actualspine · An Actual Spine_ Boredom as an empty room I sit myself in. ## [The Hidden Loop of Quality Engineering](https://diagramindustries.com/2026/07/19/the-hidden-loop-of-quality-engineering/) _2026-07-19 · Ash Winter · Diagram Industries_ Quality engineering is a fun, nebulous concept. I m into it because of that, not through any deep belief, just the freedom it affords. You can be a great exploratory tester and still be a quality \[ \] ## [Your AI Transformation](https://diagramindustries.com/2026/07/07/your-ai-transformation/) _2026-07-07 · Ash Winter · Diagram Industries_ How s your AI transformation going? Not your company s AI transformation, I already know how that s going. Pretty similar to their agile transformation I imagine. Or even their digital transformation, my personal favourite wheeze, something so \[ \] ## [Six out of Ten](https://diagramindustries.com/2026/06/30/six-out-of-ten/) _2026-06-30 · Ash Winter · Diagram Industries_ Warning this is an old man shouts at cloud sort of post. Just let me get it out of my system. I ve never seen anyone actively talk about this but I ve noticed that as \[ \] ## [Project Driven Quality Engineering](https://diagramindustries.com/2026/04/15/project-driven-quality-engineering/) _2026-04-15 · Ash Winter · Diagram Industries_ Spoiler project driven quality engineering doesn t work and you are inflicting damage on QE/QA/testing professionals if you are in charge and think it does. I was chatting with Simon Tomes on the wonderful MoT \[ \] ## [Prioritised List of Features™](https://diagramindustries.com/2026/03/22/prioritised-list-of-features/) _2026-03-22 · Ash Winter · Diagram Industries_ Maybe this fits in that special category of simple concepts that are fiendishly difficult to actually achieve. All I want is a Prioritised List of Features™ to work on. It is vanishingly rare though, I \[ \] ## [Looks Good to Me Culture](https://diagramindustries.com/2026/03/15/looks-good-to-me-culture/) _2026-03-15 · Ash Winter · Diagram Industries_ I don t know when this started, or when I started to notice it, but so many bugs, tickets, pull requests and other artefacts of our work in software are signed off with: Looks Good to \[ \] ## [‘The Figma’](https://diagramindustries.com/2026/02/27/the-figma/) _2026-02-27 · Ash Winter · Diagram Industries_ I have to be careful here, lest I fall into the trap of labelling the tool as the problem, when I know it s not. However, I have to say that Figma has become a repulsing \[ \] ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/iDj0PCIpnhhA) _2026-02-27 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [Up with the wild flowers at Wildflower Hall](https://techesoterica.com/up-with-the-wild-flowers-at-wildflower-hall/) _2026-01-29 · Pranav · techesoterica.com_ A quick reader’s note: This is the first post where I have used AI to generate image descriptions. I have tested a 100% automated workflow such that I give a script the images I have taken. The script gets descriptions from an ai model, does the necessary processing and uploads the images to a draft \[…\] ## [The Redesign and Things - 2026-01-27](https://pixeldud.com/blog/2026-01-27.html) _2026-01-27 · PixelDud's Blog_ Now it actually looks good! ## [I ranger](https://techesoterica.com/i-ranger/) _2026-01-11 · Pranav · techesoterica.com_ Those of you who have read the Ranger’s Apprentice series by John Flanigan or The King’s Ranger Series by A.C. Cobble will know the importance of staying still and observing movement. The basic idea is that you stay still and watch your surroundings. The thing you are tracking will eventually move which is when you \[…\] ## [Year Start Outlook - 2026-01-01](https://pixeldud.com/blog/2026-01-01.html) _2026-01-01 · PixelDud's Blog_ I've got some ideas. ## [Year End Update - 2025-12-23](https://pixeldud.com/blog/2025-12-23.html) _2025-12-23 · PixelDud's Blog_ Over so soon? I thought it just started! ## [A look at building layers](https://techesoterica.com/a-look-at-building-layers/) _2025-11-14 · Pranav · techesoterica.com_ I was walking around in the gated community where I live. Checkout this interesting image I took. It primarily shows different buildings. I was on the upper deck of a swimmingpool area where there was a pond and was surrounded by buildings. This layer’s soundscape is distinct and is potentially handy to know when you \[…\] ## [My New Website - 2025-09-14](https://pixeldud.com/blog/2025-09-14.html) _2025-09-14 · PixelDud's Blog_ Welcome to my new website! Pretty nice, isn't it? ## [Glue Work](https://diagramindustries.com/2025/07/06/glue-work/) _2025-07-06 · Ash Winter · Diagram Industries_ I have made a career from doing glue work. I loved it. Bringing people together, caring about the customer journey, facilitating planning and retrospectives, crafting user stories and the like. It really makes you stand \[ \] ## [Gauging your look before that all important video conference](https://techesoterica.com/gauging-your-look-before-that-all-important-video-conference/) _2025-03-31 · Pranav · techesoterica.com_ Video conferences have proliferated especially after COVID. These days, you are expected to be on camera. This applies even if you are blind and are dealing with sighted people. I do not have a problem with this per se since it represents equality in a way. Ensuring your face is centered is easy enough with \[…\] ## [My First Project Blocking Bug](https://diagramindustries.com/2024/12/31/my-first-project-blocking-bug/) _2024-12-31 · Ash Winter · Diagram Industries_ When I first became a tester, the company I worked for had found one of the many ways of building software that encouraged bugs in their thousands of all shapes and sizes. Quality was someone \[ \] ## [Unlimited Mobile Internet, One V-SIM (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/AgjN9R8Dzpzd) _2024-12-31 · **Sponsored**_ Automatically switches across T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon; no throttling, no contract. ## [Smart Glasses for the Blind: Missing the Mark in 5 Ways and how to get them on track](https://techesoterica.com/smart-glasses-for-the-blind-missing-the-mark-in-5-ways-and-how-to-get-them-on-track/) _2024-12-01 · Pranav · techesoterica.com_ There has recently been a plethora of video glasses purporting to help the blind. I will list as many as I know about at the end of this article. It is important to distinguish between those glasses that help the partly sighted. I address this post to the makers of the glasses that are designed \[…\] ## [I visit an airport wearing the vOICe](https://techesoterica.com/i-visit-an-airport-wearing-the-voice/) _2024-11-17 · Pranav · techesoterica.com_ I had to receive my cousin at the airport. Her flight was landing at 23:45 IST. I have always been concerned about the reaction of security personnel to my video glasses. This time, I was not going inside the terminal building therefore, decided to wear my Vuzix M400 device and take a chance. I need \[…\] ## [How I do exploratory testing](https://diagramindustries.com/2024/09/11/how-i-do-exploratory-testing/) _2024-09-11 · Ash Winter · Diagram Industries_ Wayne Roseberry posted the other day about how few testing blogs are about testing. I mean there are loads of other skills around testing that need to be explored, but I take his point about \[ \]