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.

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.)

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Hummingbirds

Tom 256 words

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?

Tom 825 words

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

Tom 920 words

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