Month: 2026/08
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2026 August 28
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Fediverse Oracles, Feedspools, and street plums (Catching up: August 7 – August 28)
Catching up on a sprawling few weeks of infrastructure rebuilding—from porting C64 BASIC maze generators for the blog to rewriting my RSS feed reader in pure-Go SQLite—along with building a Fediverse ActivityPub bot in a day, resuming my Persona 5 Royal save on a jailbroken Switch via Moonlight, making street plum shrub, and receiving surprise mail from the Church of Scientology. [ ... 1980 words ... ]
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2026 August 22
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Remember Me: The Case of the Vanishing Feeds
My self-hosted feed reading stack quietly shrank from hundreds of feeds down to 33 over the course of a year, and I didn't notice until my reading list got eerily quiet. The culprit: an unpaginated API call that turned "the 1000 most recent bookmarks" into a silent ceiling on my subscription list. I had been unsubscribing myself, one bookmark at a time. [ ... 1304 words ... ]
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2026 August 07
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Smoky Skies, Raccoon Pool Parties, and Domain Negotiations (Week 32)
A smoky week in Portland brings back 2020 wildfire PTSD. My smart appliances have started nagging me to buy phones, the raccoons threw a midnight pool party and wrecked my fountain pumps, and the cats are handing out RPG quests. Plus, some thoughts on treating AI coding assistants as peers rather than tools. [ ... 725 words ... ]