Junited wrap-up
- Some stats:
- 24 posts written
- 123 links (not counting links to my own blog or fedi account)
- 76 links to actual blog posts (not counting links to things like fediverse accounts, wikipedia, git repos, and other "general information" links)
- 11+ new blogs added to my rss feeds :)
- 7,242 words written
- 1 exhausted Dane
I started off writing a post that had three entries. I wanted to continue that for the whole month. That was a mistake. XD
It was just a bit too much work to find and write about three blog links every single day, and I quickly exhausted my RSS feeds, and had to work harder and harder to find new (I'm going to say the hated word, I'm sorry) "content." (ugh 😆)
There were some things I really wanted to write about at the very end, but I just ran out of steam, physically.
All in all, though, it was a wonderful experience. I met a lot of really neat bloggers and fediverse people, and made some new internet friends. Yay!
Thanks to Robert Birming for getting this party started. ;)
Junited 2026
Introduction
I received a kind shout-out from Juhis Santala this morning, mentioning my previous blog post regarding the tilde (~) movement key in vi/nvi/vim, and how I tweaked it.
Reading his blog post, I discovered the "Junited" blogging theme, a way of bringing bloggers together for the month …
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Quasi-Lucid Ravings
I don't understand time.
I don't understand this weird 80-year period of life, bracketed by glory.
I don't understand squinting and sweating under the sun, waiting for our Rescue.
I don't understand the Creator's insistence of running the simulation of humanity on such a flawed and cantankerous scratch file.
I …
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Don't Go Back There
Content warning: discussion of religion and politics. If those subjects are triggers for you, I fully understand, and offer instead this lighthearted post instead.
Note: this post is in some ways a continuation of this one from 2024, but you don't need to read that first.
There's a phrase found …
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A New Socratic Sign, or: Writer's Block as a Work of Grace
This image is protected under the "Fair Use" doctrine of US copyright law regarding derivative works and low-fidelity reproduction
I wrote previously about my experience of a "Socratic Sign" as a student: how my experience of wonder and exhilaration in my studies kept me going through the relative stress and …
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Mind the Shards
Photo source: Marika Vinkmann
I was listening to one of my new favorite podcasts, Don't Listen to Us with Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody (his wife). As I mentioned in a recent post, Mandy is one of my favorite actors, nay, favorite humans on the planet. I can't get into …
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Breakfast at Der Waffle Haus
Disclaimer 1: A heavy "[sic]" is implied on all intentional butchering of the German language in the references (and URLs) in this post
Disclaimer 2: This post deals with issues of grieving, but in a lighthearted manner
Disclaimer 3: This post may be best enjoyed while listening to this track …
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Re-thinking Sci-Fi Space Battles
I don't watch a lot of YouTube anymore, and I'm trying to bring my TV watching down by a lot and read more.
But one of my guilty pleasures is Retro Badger Gaming. This guy uses variants of the Bridge Commander series of games/mods to put together intriguing, insane …
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My Mirror is Surely Alive
By Dorkface Rickens
Ready or not, the future is here! This evening, I installed a new technology in my bathroom called a "mirror."
I was excited to see what this could do, and skeptical of the claims that mirrors merely reflect the light coming in.
Imagine my astonishment when I …
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I Loved Computers Before the Internet was a Thing
A reconstruction of the Commodore 64's BASIC prompt, adapted from Wikipedia
I loved computers before the internet was a thing, and I will continue enjoying them long after the internet becomes an unusable hellhole of mass surveillance, age verification, deplorably invasive technical "standards," and hyper-aggressive advertising.
I've seen truly enormous …
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