Blaugust 2026

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Blaugust Media Kit

More information about Blaugust, where you can find out all about what it is and how to participate, along with huge lists of the blogs participating:

I typically use an RSS feed reader to read blog posts, so I rely on owl’s OPML firehose link. But here are some blogs this year that do not have RSS feeds, just so I can keep track of them too:

And finally, the following are my posts tagged for Blaugust this year:

31 entries. 24,934 words.

August, 2026

  • Welcome To The Party, Pal. 2026-08-01 7:36 AM.
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    Blaugust Day 1. Starting Blaugust 2026, reflections on Belghast’s legacy, anti-mentoring advice, and a frustrating first experience with a burger press. 640 words.
  • Comment Authentication Options. 2026-08-02 6:34 AM.
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    Blaugust Day 2. Recovering from a day of yard work, heading to an MRI, and comment authentication. 602 words.
  • Neck MRI Completed. 2026-08-03 7:10 AM.
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    Blaugust Day 3. A cervical spine MRI, major comment system changes, a surprising WordPress stat, and the video of the day. 1,045 words.
  • My Earliest Blogs. 2026-08-04 7:44 AM.
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    Blaugust Day 4. My earliest web pages and custom blog engines, mixed health news, and workspace reorganization. 832 words.
  • Radiologist Results and GoToSocial Migration. 2026-08-05 6:19 AM.
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    Blaugust Day 5. Getting my GoToSocial instance successfully migrated to the cloud while digesting some heavy news from the radiologist. 849 words.
  • Links to Other Blaugust Posts. 2026-08-06 5:52 AM.
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    Blaugust Day 6. A collection of links and brief thoughts on recent Blaugust posts. 1,420 words.
  • Why It's Called Endgame Viable. 2026-08-07 7:36 AM.
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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.
  • Downloading EverQuest Legends. 2026-08-08 8:02 AM.
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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.
  • Old Dog Not Understanding HTML Day. 2026-08-09 8:36 AM.
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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. 1,270 words.
  • EverQuest Legends and FFXIV. 2026-08-10 8:31 AM.
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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.
  • Accumulated Blog Topics. 2026-08-11 7:51 AM.
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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.
  • Zoya Fyodorova. 2026-08-12 8:13 AM.
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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.
  • Blogging Daily In 2026. 2026-08-13 10:47 AM.
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    Blaugust Day 13. Adjusting my writing process to survive the daily posting demands of Blaugust. 777 words.
  • Answering 100 Questions for Webmasters. 2026-08-14 9:23 AM.
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    Blaugust Day 14. Blasting through the 100 questions for webmasters questionnaire. 2,011 words.
  • Where Are Your Screenshots?. 2026-08-15 10:35 AM.
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    Blaugust Day 15. Hunting down screenshots across old PCs and backup hard drives with the help of Antigravity. 825 words.
  • Community Aggregators. 2026-08-16 12:09 PM.
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    Blaugust Day 16. Some musing on community mega-blogs and aggregators. 1,107 words.
  • A Dynamic Blogroll. 2026-08-17 7:24 AM.
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    Blaugust Day 17. Adding a dynamic blogroll ticker to my Hugo site. 668 words.
  • Sending Webmentions and Pingbacks. 2026-08-18 7:04 AM.
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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.
  • Hummingbirds. 2026-08-19 7:00 AM.
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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.
  • Secret Hyperfocusing Musician. 2026-08-20 6:29 AM.
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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.
  • Retiring Old WordPress Sites. 2026-08-21 7:04 AM.
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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.
  • Reverse Engineering Old Music Projects. 2026-08-22 12:26 PM.
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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. 1,641 words.
  • YouTube Channels I Follow. 2026-08-23 7:40 AM.
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    Blaugust Day 23. For Creator Appreciation, a list of YouTube channels I follow. 357 words.
  • EverQuest Legends Sub Cancelled Already. 2026-08-24 6:33 AM.
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    Blaugust Day 24. My brief three-hour journey in EverQuest Legends and the lack of pull for non-existent nostalgia. 425 words.
  • Reviving A Boss DR-660 Drum Machine. 2026-08-25 7:03 AM.
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    Blaugust Day 25. Receiving a used Boss DR-660 with a low battery, navigating around a jack board to replace the battery and fix it. 631 words.
  • Agentic Prompts To Live By. 2026-08-26 7:18 AM.
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    Blaugust Day 26. A practical guide and list of real-world prompts for using agentic AI assistants like Antigravity and Claude in daily software development. 1,297 words.
  • Vestigial Death Throes of Habit. 2026-08-27 8:15 AM.
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    Blaugust Day 27. Updates on health, television shows, and the progress of my DAT archiving project with a dying 30-year-old DAT deck. 444 words.
  • Pros and Cons of AI Technical Writing. 2026-08-28 8:21 AM.
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    Blaugust Day 28. My experience using Claude for technical writing at work, the need for human editing, and slow AI performance. 617 words.
  • Two Content Discoveries. 2026-08-29 9:54 AM.
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    Blaugust Day 29. Two recent content discoveries: the improvised Call of Cthulhu podcast Push the Roll and the low-brow UK comedy series The Sketch Show. 427 words.
  • Changes To The Blog During Blaugust. 2026-08-30 10:19 AM.
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    Blaugust Day 30. A list of all the technical updates, server infrastructure migrations, and design changes made to my blog before and during Blaugust. 267 words.
  • Stumbling Over the Blaugust Finish Line. 2026-08-31 5:39 PM.
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    Blaugust Day 31. Crossing the finish line of a daily blogging challenge, reflecting on publishing friction, and figuring out what comes next. 693 words.