It happened again: scope creep. When I re-started regularly blogging, I specifically said I would avoid the trap of only writing serious and thoughtful posts. In my latest post, I redeclare my commitment to quantity over quality, and hit the
reset button
blogging
New #blog post! I collected together a bunch of resources and techniques that I used to study #Japanese! If you've ever wanted to start learning on your own, here are some recs!
https://renkotsuban.com/posts/2025-08-12-Japanese-self-study-resources.html
Ich hab gestern übrigens ein kleines bisschen was gebloggt… über "#KI", nicht komponierte Soundtracks, rap-begeisterte Schulklassen… und vor allem über #Künstler und künstlerische Zusammenarbeit im Fediverse:
https://schallundstille.de/2025/08/12/liebe-kunstler-im-fediverse-wir-mussen-reden/
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Read Write.as is an aggregator of feeds of users of the Write.as @write_as blogging platform. The topics of the posts range from personal diaries and poetry to technology, introspection, society, and more. It's a great resource for discovering independent writers and reading material.
New blog post:
Testing BSSG - the Bash Static Site Generator
http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/05/testing-bssg-the-bash-static-site-generator/
I'm writing a series of blog posts, in which I write a #bytecode #compiler and a #virtualMachine for arithmetic in #Haskell. We explore the following topics in the series:
- Parsing arithmetic expressions to ASTs.
- Compiling ASTs to bytecode.
- Interpreting ASTs.
- Efficiently executing bytecode in a VM.
- Disassembling bytecode and decompiling opcodes for debugging and testing.
- Unit testing and property-based testing for our compiler and VM.
- Benchmarking our code to see how the different passes perform.
- All the while keeping an eye on performance.
The second post of the series that focuses on writing the #compiler is now out: https://abhinavsarkar.net/posts/arithmetic-bytecode-vm-compiler
This week's net.wars, "Passing the Uncanny Valley", sees Sophie Nightingale deliver the news that training people to detect synthetic facial images has little effect; and we bid goodbye to Typepad (may its bloggers find new homes): https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/08/29/passing-the-uncanny-valley/ #AI #MachineLearning #Blogging
I look back at the dawn of blogging and RSS in 1999. At the start of that year, a small community of "loggers" were designing and writing weblogs, but it wasn't until the launch of Blogger in August '99 that it became easy for non-techies to publish a blog. Alongside this, Netscape and Dave Winer had early versions of RSS — Netscape's was the official RSS format at this time, but it was very limited. https://cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-1999/ #InternetHistory #blogging #RSS
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If you’d like to help choose what will be listed on the archive of selected blog posts once Bix Dot Blog comes down, you can see the current list here.
My intention is to have the blog offline before the end of the month, allowing me to cancel my DigitalOcean.
David's article really resonated with me because I've been thinking for a long while now to create a newsletter (or three) to surface barely heard voices.
On Substack, for example, the voices I hear are overwhelmingly from the United States, and it is incredibly hard to find voices from Asia and South-East Asia. It's a source of huge frustration for me because the most common narratives about my part of the world is from the United States, and a lot of times these narratives are distorted, skewed to American values and is not what is really happening in my region. Yet, when I try to speak up on Substack, I never get seen as the algorithm is prioritising US voices and Substacks. Worse, they are also boosting only popular ones, which means the most popular narrative is the loudest.
I have occasionally shared links to South-East Asian Substacks and blogs, and each time I do, I get messages of gratitude. However, I still wondered if my tiny act of rebellion would do anything to move the needle in terms of being heard in an English-speaking Internet overwhelmed by Western voices and narratives.
David's post reminded me that yes, I should put in some effort to help surface more unknown corners of the Internet. Maybe we won't get rid of the algorithmic complacency sweeping society now, but at least we'll do some tiny thing to help create a messy but human algorithm instead.
https://www.raptitude.com/2025/06/how-to-surf-the-web-in-2025-and-why-you-should/
#Internet #SocialMedia #Algorithms #IndieWeb #Tech #Blogging #blogs
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In return, I promise not to become a neuro-sparse psychopathic plutocrat.
Just stop tweeting. #Blogging
Just a quick Side Note:
I will scale down my Activities on Mastodon from now on, will focus my Attention and Time elsewhere in the digital Realm.
There will be still Posts and Interactions be published, like from my Blog automatically distributed into the Fediverse.
Micro-Blogging on Mastodon isn't what i imagined it to be or what i need in this Form, after trying it out for a while. 🤔
So long... 😉
We're #live #blogging from #MakerFaire #Rome! follow along:
https://makezine.com/article/maker-news/live-maker-faire-rome-2024/
#Blogging is the art of watching that post you wrote in like two hours about washing your shark plush last year overshadowing everything else you will ever write.
Blog Questions Challenge for 2025
Uncover answers to the questions people have been asking surround the topic of blogging and who will participate next in this Blog Questions Challenge.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/blog-questions-challenge-2025/
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Okay really quick and rough version, but a good start. This is my progress on my Fediverse for Photographers blog.
Any input and additions appreciated! I still have more to add from the suggestions provided the other day.
https://www.dyptrephotography.ca/The-Dyptre-Blog/The-Fediverse
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Linguagens Declarativas e o Nosso Cérebro
https://gmgall.net/blog/linguagens-declarativas-e-o-nosso-cerebro/
New blog post:
I'm trying to port my site to Zola and I'm not sure I like it
https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/03/im-trying-to-port-my-site-to-zola-and-im-not-sure-i-like-it/
🦊
I am downright delighted to announce that my latest book, YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, has a brand new look. I really love it, and I hope you do too.
Here’s a look at what’s changed and—maybe more importantly—what’s stayed the same:
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/refresh-a-new-look-for-you-deserve-a-tech-union/
#YDATUbook #books #bookstodon #blogging #labor #TechLabor #unions #TechUnions #1u
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🇫🇮🐍 Welcome to our next meetup on Wednesday 19th March 2025 at Taiste:
Talks:
✒️ @hamatti - Why developers should write blog posts
💉 Sakari Cajanus - Dependency injection in Python (or why Python is not Java)
🦀 Mislav Novakovic - Refactoring to Rust
And the famous HelPy quiz!
https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/306522919/
Please also drop us a line if you’d like to give a talk in April or beyond ⭐
#HelPy #Helsinki #Python #meetup #writing #blogging #DependencyInjection #Rust
I wrote about how social media habits make it hard to write a good opening and how a BBC4 radio program helped me overcome the urge to waffle.
Neither waffle nor a cold open: In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg is my model for topic introductions
https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2025-03-22-neither-waffle-nor-cold-open/
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Hi. I'm terrified.
I've been trying to make my own space on the web for years. And I've been stuck. Badly.
But today is my birthday. And I refuse to let another year pass without putting something—anything—out there.
So here it is in all its messy glory. My first post on my barely-there #website: https://fromemily.com/hi-im-terrified/
It's not great. But it's okay...enough.
And I hope it means something to someone.
@actuallyautistic
#SmallWeb #ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #writing #blogging
PSA for people with #Wordpress blogs: do you know that you can turn off comments on old posts?
In the last few months I have noticed a significant uptick in spammy comments on my Wordpress blogs (I have 4).
Well there is a way to remedy all that: you can simply turn off comments on old blog posts by going to:
Settings -> Discussion -> and checking "Automatically close comments on old posts"
(You can even determine the "oldness" of posts, for example, older than 7 days, 14 days... anything you'd like)
Enabling this made all the difference for me. I could not recommend it more.
End of my PSA 🤗
Have a great day everyone!
#blog #blogging #selfhosting #spam