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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC asks us to: For this Daily Create, you are tasked with imagining the image that is described by the alternative text below....
Last year, Ancestry announced "Smart Search" in beta, intended to be a more intuitive search form with "enhanced logic" for focusing on more relevant results. It has shown up on my family trees and last week, I tried it for several...
Being a bilingual speaker, Joel wrote about his struggle to read books and their translations: I just can’t decide what to do when it comes to translated works at all. Be it old books in English translated to Spanish—or modern ones to be...
I recently decided to leave Codeberg and run my own Forgejo instance instead. After finishing the initial setup, I realized that a forge I host myself is a forge that I get to shape, and that I no longer have to settle for whatever...
Drift Zero syncing while sitting in a coffee shop The last few weeks, I have been beta testing the Drift DJ and its getting a lot more stable. The hardest part I have found is my tunes are from all over, going from Rave stuff from the...
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...
Has everyone recently started vibe-coding their personal websites? The number of blogs in my RSS feed that have suddenly started spamming dozens of old posts all at once is getting a little suspicious. But hey, coding is a solved problem...
I've been diving a bit more into this map, angling specifically towards using it to run a Bookholm campaign. Enromous caveat: I am an Anglo gamer chud with no archaeological or historical background; what follows is a repository of my...
What do you get when you combine a track with a history of one good race per decade, and a driver with talent we haven’t seen in more than a decade? A sleep-inducing race, that’s what. Despite what I wrote Friday, I had great hopes for...
I’m officially on my summer break. My last singing workshop was just over two weeks ago. But that doesn’t mean I’m taking it easy or lazing by the pool. Here’s what I’ve been up to. Most people don’t realise how much behind-the-scenes...
Current stage of pregnancy: week 12 GA; week 10 FA; 12,5 cigarettes since the beginning of pregnancy Baby update✴We're almost done with week 12. I think I finally have a bump. The fold between the belly and pubis area is filling up, my...
It’s time for my annual roundup of film-photography blogs. Some blogs last for a short time while others last for decades. But the film-photography blogging community remains strong. There are 120 active blogs here! Since last year, 14...
Current stage of pregnancy: week 12 GA; week 10 FA; 12,5 cigarettes since the beginning of pregnancy Baby update✴We're almost done with week 12. I think I finally have a bump. The fold between the belly and pubis area is filling up, my...
My mother taught me to read using a set of word cards. I can see her holding them up in front of me in the corner of the vicarage dining room in the winter-dark. I see myself as very small. Four, perhaps. Many significant things happened...
I just went through the queue of submissions to blogroll.org and probably deleted 95% of what was in there. This is not unusual, and has become more and more common lately. A big reason for this is clearly AI. The amount of slop...