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.

YouTube Channels I Follow

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Blaugust Day 23. For Creator Appreciation, a list of YouTube channels I follow. (357 words.)

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Reverse Engineering Old Music Projects

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Blaugust Day 22. The logistical challenge of recovering, remixing, and remastering mid-90s songs from ADAT tapes and MIDI files in a modern DAW. (1641 words.)

Retiring Old WordPress Sites

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Blaugust Day 21. Retiring three decaying WordPress sites by setting up lightweight static landing pages and redirects on Cloudflare Pages. (871 words.)

Secret Hyperfocusing Musician

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Blaugust Day 20. Waiting on slow DNS propagation, heading to the brain doctor, and falling down a deep rabbit hole of music production. (490 words.)

Hummingbirds

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Blaugust Day 19. I finally got around to setting up a hummingbird feeder and it brought all the hummingbirds to the yard. (256 words.)

Sending Webmentions and Pingbacks

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Blaugust Day 18. Sending webmentions and pingbacks to external sites referenced in blog posts using AWS Lambda serverless functions and SNS. (907 words.)

A Dynamic Blogroll

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Blaugust Day 17. Adding a dynamic blogroll ticker to my Hugo site. (668 words.)

Community Aggregators

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

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.)