Endgame Viable
Blaugust 2026
Endgame Viable 126 words
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:
- Blaugust 2026 is Coming!
- Blaugust 2026 – Calendar, Weekly Prompts, & Group Projects
- Blaugust 2026 – Meet the Mentors & Participant List
- Blaugust 2026 Begins! Do I Remember How to Blaugust?
- The Blaugust 2026 Post Firehose
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
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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.