Blog posts in category “Blaugust 2025”
My entries during 2025 Blaugust blogging festival.
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Aug 31st, 2025Blaugust 2025 retrospective: Surprising Rainbow Diamond Award
31 days, 31 posts — I somehow finished Blaugust with more posts than I imagined I would.
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Aug 30th, 2025Static sites enable a good time travel experience
A static site with version control history enables me to travel into any point in the project’s past and serve the site as it was back in the day.
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Aug 29th, 2025I keep geeking out about my print styles
Specific print styles make my blog posts readable even when printed out on paper. You can print this one out and enjoy it in your reading nook while sipping chamomile tea.
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Aug 28th, 2025There’s something I’ve never told you…
Our Blaugust community prompt for today encouraged us to share something we don’t normally talk about in our blogs.
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Aug 28th, 2025Build the forum you want to see in the web
The only way we’ll see the personal blogs, open forums and non-corporate platforms to shine again is if people who want them, make them happen.
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Aug 27th, 2025Shortcut to add link to today’s note in Obsidian
I finally added a hotkey to add current date as a backlink to anywhere in my notes.
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Aug 26th, 2025I wonder if my blog has been mentioned in US courts
A district court document from Illinois made me think about the possibility of a juror mentioning they read my blog in a US court.
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Aug 25th, 2025#971226 is my colour in the web
Ruby red is my main colour I use across my website, CVs, resumes, presentations. Over the years, I’ve grown to really like it and consider it mine.
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Aug 24th, 2025I have found the joy of clipboard managers
A friend reminded me of how useful clipboard managers are and a few weeks later I’m totally hooked and don’t want to go back.
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Aug 23rd, 2025Linking to books online
I was wrong on Thursday when I ranted about it being hard to link to books without linking to Amazon.
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Aug 23rd, 2025I’m happy when people learn and are inspired
Blaugust group project for today invited us to write about tiny things that make us disproportionately happy.
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Aug 22nd, 2025If you had absolutely no worries about money, and no fear, what are ten things you would do this week?
My favourite exercise in personal reflection and goal setting is to go bold, go big and go beoynd life’s limitations and then find small parts that become achievable.
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Aug 21st, 2025Handwriting is slow which gives me time to think
When I write with my pen to a notebook, I’m much slower than when I type on my keyboard. It’s a win though because when it comes to thinking, speed isn’t often good.
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Aug 20th, 2025Notes require regular gardening
Notes can grow into a monster if you just keep adding stuff, never reading or maintaining your existing ones. To keep your notes useful, you need to do regular gardening.
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Aug 19th, 2025Board game nights are my favourite way to socialise and make new friends
For an introvert like me who sometimes struggles to find something to talk with, board game nights are a perfect place to make new friends.
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Aug 18th, 2025My wallet doesn’t run out of battery
I used to use anything I could in digital form but running out of battery and the enshittification of everything has made me into using non-digital solutions for important things.
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Aug 17th, 2025Questions and answers about blogging
Varun challenged me to answer questions about how I blog so here we go
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Aug 16th, 2025
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Aug 16th, 2025Is writing a hobby for me?
I spend more time writing than with any of my hobbies, yet I don’t usually list is amongst my hobbies because it feels more part of who I am than an activity I do.
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Aug 15th, 2025Network stress test for my smart home
I aim to build my home automations so that nothing relies on Internet connection and I got to put that into a test when one morning my internet was disconnected by the ISP.
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Aug 14th, 2025Blog comments, a must-have or fun extra?
In the Blaugust community, an active discussion sparked on whether a blog needs to have comments enabled for it to be a blog. I say no and here’s why.
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Aug 13th, 2025I really like Home Assistant’s triggers and actions model for its flexibility
Separating inputs and outputs opens up the opportunities so much that I keep coming up with small improvements that I can implement through Home Assistant. For example, my light switch can boot up my entire home entertainment system in my living room.
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Aug 11th, 2025Newsletters I read
Here are my favourite newsletters that I follow at the moment.
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Aug 9th, 2025wallabag, I choose you!
As Mozilla shut down Pocket, I looked at eight alternatives to migrate into and ended up choosing wallabag, an open source, self-hostable solution. Two months later, I know I made the right choice.
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Aug 7th, 2025Do not, I repeat, do not read the comments
Despite the warning cries of my friends, I couldn’t resist the curiosity and I went and read what people on online forums thought about my blog post — surprise, I didn’t have the best mood afterwards.
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Aug 6th, 2025Dotfiles feel too intimate and personal to share
I love dotfiles and I love sharing. But I have this weird feeling that sharing my dotfiles is too intimate and personal.
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Aug 5th, 2025Naming devices is fun
Giving devices creative names is a lot of fun and one of the best things about purchasing a new device.
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Aug 4th, 2025Solutions and references
When I offer or ask for help for a technical problem, I prefer to not only solve my problem but to learn how to reach the solution and modify it for future needs.
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Aug 3rd, 2025Find new blogs to follow from this year’s Blaugust participants
We have over 100 blogs participating in this year’s Blaugust blogging festival and even if you’re not a blogger yourself, you can find many great new blogs to read.
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Aug 2nd, 2025"You can't pause an online game" — how childhood gaming formed my work preferences
As a kid, generational tension with my parents grew from my online multiplayer hobby — as an adult I find myself wanting a heads up early at work just like I did as a kid so I can schedule and prepare.
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Aug 1st, 2025Welcome to Blaugust 2025
August 1st means it’s time to kick off this year’s Blaugust blogging festival with an introductory post.
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Jul 14th, 2025Blaugust 2025 starts August 1st
Blaugust is a blogging festival we celebrate in August by writing and publishing blog posts and enjoying our art and craft.
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