Hi! This is the blog of a reclusive Gen-X software developer. I write twice a month about games or whatever else is going on. I was diagnosed with cancer in 2025.

Community Aggregators

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Blaugust Day 16. Some musing on community mega-blogs and aggregators. (1107 words.)

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Where Are Your Screenshots?

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Blaugust Day 15. Hunting down screenshots across old PCs and backup hard drives with the help of Antigravity. (825 words.)

Blogging Daily In 2026

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Blaugust Day 13. Adjusting my writing process to survive the daily posting demands of Blaugust. (777 words.)

Zoya Fyodorova

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Blaugust Day 12. My interpretation of a Blaugust group project - the tragic life of Stalin-era Soviet actress Zoya Fyodorova, from gulag imprisonment to her unsolved murder. (456 words.)

Accumulated Blog Topics

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Blaugust Day 11. Chemo infusion 20, blog subjects to avoid, superpowers, real life, stats, blog longevity, Final Fantasy XIV. (920 words.)

EverQuest Legends and FFXIV

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Blaugust Day 10. Starting another chemo cycle, mowing the lawn, trying to find the lore in EverQuest Legends, two more MSQ quests in Endwalker, and bathtub robot. (984 words.)

Old Dog Not Understanding HTML Day

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Blaugust Day 9. The three virtues of programming make me avoid hand-writing HTML and instead lean on Markdown and automation. (1270 words.)

Downloading EverQuest Legends

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Blaugust Day 8. A bout of Saturday morning lethargy, writing motivation, downloading EverQuest Legends, and the video of the day. (741 words.)

Why It's Called Endgame Viable

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Blaugust Day 7. Explaining the origin of the name Endgame Viable and its shifting meaning as the years go by. (464 words.)