# random musing (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover random musing. Page: Feed: --- ## [That Old Radio Still Plays](https://cogdogblog.com/2026/08/old-radio-still-plays/) _2026-08-18 · CogDog The Blog · CogDogBlog_ I’m thrilled to see that Reclaim Hosting still runs the DS106 Radio Summer Camp as a light, low threshold way to gather online about as far from a wall of zoom faces as you can get. It was 12 hours of programming you could just spin the dial to over to https://listen.reclaimed.tech/summer-camp and tune in. \[…\] ## [On Blog? Blog On!](https://cogdogblog.com/2026/08/blog-is-on/) _2026-08-13 · CogDog The Blog · CogDogBlog_ Sniff. Sniff. Cautiously peeking out of the CogDogBlog that seems to be back in working operation after a broken period. The on switch is on, as if anyone noticed. It was an extended period of seeing the trusty old blog respond with Error Establishing Database Connection. I started to write out all the steps I \[ \] ## [On the Keeping of a Journal](https://srp.life/on-the-keeping-of-a-journal/) _2026-08-04 · Rdr. Seraphim Pardee_ That’s right, I’m productivity blogging now! Try and stop me! ## [Unbreaking the Broken Blog](https://cogdogblog.com/2026/07/broken-blog/) _2026-07-25 · CogDog The Blog · CogDogBlog_ You might not be able to read this. Apparantly ye old CogDogBlog has been crashing much this past week with Error Establishing Database Connection errors. Oh no, Mr Bill! One or two folks notified me (thanks Brian B and JR), but it hardly seems to have created havoc on the internet. I was on a \[ \] ## [Hey Thingvellir, That’s a Mighty Big Atlas You Were Published In](https://cogdogblog.com/2026/07/thingvellir-big-atlas/) _2026-07-13 · CogDog The Blog · CogDogBlog_ Way out here on the marginal reaches of the withering web, the connections that weave together are of statistical aberration, where no language model of any size would draw a path. As thus it was following the adventures of Stephen Downes as he bicycles around Iceland that got me thinking of places I saw there \[ \] ## [This Should Be Easy\[ier\]: Count Number of Posts in any WordPress Site with Javascript](https://cogdogblog.com/2026/06/count-posts-wordpress-api/) _2026-06-27 · CogDog The Blog · CogDogBlog_ As often, what begins as a simple question or small need spins out a series of digging, experimenting, and ultimately spending more time remixing a featured image (by hand) and writing a blog post that 4 people may read. Ahhh, 2026. That s another grumbly post. But here it is, I was rather taken by this \[ \] ## [Down the Web Rabbit Hole With a Hammerhand](https://cogdogblog.com/2026/06/web-rabbit-hole-hammerhand/) _2026-06-22 · CogDog The Blog · CogDogBlog_ My wandering down into Web Rabbit Holes of interest happend much more frequently than the rate of blog posts. It s where I find the most sanity in the pile of poop much (but not all) of the web is piled with. It started with a Mastodon post by Bonni Stachowiak referencing her own post on \[ \] [Listen](https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/nmfs-f10-week-8.mp3) ## [A “Deep Dive” (!) into Statements of GenAI Transparency for Open Education Awards](https://cogdogblog.com/2026/06/deep-dive-igenai-transparency-for-oe-awards/) _2026-06-21 · CogDog The Blog · CogDogBlog_ Amongst the many blog post drafts still bouncing around upstairs is one about being the last person ever to vibe code anything but of more interest is writing about what is my major project at the moment over at Open Education Global, the Open Education Awards for Excellence. Aince I end up doing what one \[ \] ## [Ahhh, Retirement](https://cogdogblog.com/2026/06/retirement/) _2026-06-16 · CogDog The Blog · CogDogBlog_ Indeed the golden dreamy soft gel focused ideal of the leisurely retirement lifestyle, you know, out there shopping for vinyl or sitting at cafes writing novels (hee hee, that pingback is for you, Martin). Nope not me, I am still at full time work at Open Education Global and the real work of blogging here \[ \] [Listen](https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/matimassa-fx-scratch-01-379214.mp3) ## [Web Domain Castles in the Sand](https://cogdogblog.com/2026/06/web-domain-castles-sand/) _2026-06-05 · CogDog The Blog · CogDogBlog_ I always did this as a kid on the beaches of Ocean City, Maryland. I would use my shovels and plastic containers to build some kind of sand castle with big walls and a deep moat. I would place them just out of reach of the water in low tide, and the game was to \[ \] ## [Watch chovy live code (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/AJe6LtAUukvP) _2026-06-05 · **Sponsored**_ Join Mosh Coding streams with collaborative screen sharing and remote control, open source. ## [Catching up on Felix at the Dozen Mark](https://cogdogblog.com/2026/05/felix-dozen/) _2026-05-28 · CogDog The Blog · CogDogBlog_ CogDogBlog awakes from a case of the techno-flu. It got into the server and the database requests were coughing for 2 weeks no just the tired blog operator. The only way out of not blogging is picking the thing up (old story). In that flu fog many key dates were missed the date \[ \] ## [Finally! Unlocked the Code to be on a Shareski Podcast](https://cogdogblog.com/2026/05/funlocked-code-shareski-podcast/) _2026-05-20 · CogDog The Blog · CogDogBlog_ It s easily taken the 20+ years I have known Dean Shareski to figure out the secret to be on his podcast I had to be a Canadian, which is something I finally accomplished in September 2019. The big moment for my fame happened April 22, when we met at the Hive Coffee Shop on \[ \] ## [cyberdeck design log #1](https://strangelyentangled.com/blog/cyberdeck-design-log1/) _2026-04-21 · StrangelyEntangled_ ruminations and inspirations ## [Hello Hacker News!](https://strangelyentangled.com/blog/hello-hacker-news/) _2026-04-17 · StrangelyEntangled_ muh stats!! ## [Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks](https://strangelyentangled.com/blog/musings-80s-hardware/) _2026-04-11 · StrangelyEntangled_ Random musings around computing in the 80s and a DIY cyberdeck build ## [Datacore online. Welcome to the grid.](https://strangelyentangled.com/blog/datacore-online/) _2026-04-09 · StrangelyEntangled_ Nostalgia is an acceptable escape mechanism. ## [Apophasis](https://srp.life/apophasis/) _2025-12-28 · Rdr. Seraphim Pardee_ “For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.” - Hebrews 12:11 (RSV) ## [A Grief Unobserved](https://srp.life/a-grief-unobserved/) _2025-08-01 · Rdr. Seraphim Pardee_ “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” - Revelation 21:4 (KJV) ## [To My Daughter, Mary - Entry 1](https://srp.life/to-my-daughter-mary-entry-1/) _2025-03-20 · Rdr. Seraphim Pardee_ On the occasion of your first birthday. ## [Something of a revitalization.](https://srp.life/something-of-a-revitalization/) _2025-03-10 · Rdr. Seraphim Pardee_ Friendship with Substack ended, now Ghost is my best friend. ## [Home Internet From Space (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Hwntsg261k4e) _2025-03-10 · **Sponsored**_ Residential satellite internet that brings connectivity to homes beyond conventional networks ## [Encyclopedic Dignity](https://www.croissanthology.com/encyclopedia) _2025-01-03 · Croissanthology_ We used to be a proper planet ## [Trust For The Distrustful](https://srp.life/trust-for-the-distrustful/) _2024-12-13 · Rdr. Seraphim Pardee_ “For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.” - Hebrews 4:15 (RSV) ## [Reflection: Age & Legacy (pt. 3)](https://srp.life/reflection-age-and-legacy-pt-3/) _2024-11-28 · Rdr. Seraphim Pardee_ “Indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun.” - Ecclesiastes 2:11b ## [Reflection: Age & Legacy (pt. 2)](https://srp.life/reflection-age-and-legacy-pt-2/) _2024-11-25 · Rdr. Seraphim Pardee_ “Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men; and the living will take it to heart.” - Ecclesiastes 7:2 ## [Reflection: Age & Legacy (pt. 1)](https://srp.life/reflection-age-and-legacy-pt-1/) _2024-11-24 · Rdr. Seraphim Pardee_ “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to keep, and a time to throw away;” - Ecclesiastes 3:1, 6 (NKJV)