📝 August 2026 Blogroll: Share your blog posts!

The “incoming posts” thing is more about ideas I have of posts to write. There aren’t actually any drafts or concrete plans for those posts.

“incoming” was more supposed to mean “I have plans to make that post and it will probably be here Soon™”

It was never designed to serve any other specific function for that matter, so I should probably rename it, actually…

very short weekly recap:

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Mini review and summary of an interesting book I finished lately:

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It’s been three months since I’ve been at a level of angry that even allowed me to write about how angry I am. :+1:t2:

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Galactic Compass gets an AR update and it has an RSS connection.

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a lot of model boats but also a finished quilt!

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We should trade places next year. :slightly_smiling_face: I have been desperate for heat and sunshine all summer. We had two nice hot, sunny weeks in July (didn’t hit 30 degrees, though, mostly hovered in the high 20s), but it has been overcast, cool, foggy, and drizzly the rest of the time… I’m experiencing my usual winter SAD symptoms in August, which is insane to me. They usually only kick in towards the end of September or early October.

Climate change truly sucks. Our summers are always pretty mediocre and we never get spring (we basically go from “slightly less cold winter” in May to “oh, I guess it’s summer now” in June), but this year has been especially miserable for me. Probably has something to do with changing ocean currents caused by the extreme heat in other areas of the world.

This month, I’ve been participating in Blaugust with a theme of “A to Z of Python” where I share one thing from Python programming world that matches the letter.

So far, I’ve covered from A to Q and will finish the rest of the letters before the end of the month.

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I wrote a page on my science fiction reading site about the minimalist gear and the software I use to create the little mini-podcast there.

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I think this snapshot of a very specific part of my past is the best thing I’ve written in a good while. Idk what you call it, creative nonfiction or something.

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I wrote up a blog post that I think you will all enjoy!

I stumbled upon an old website that I had made. This was almost certainly my first “professional” website, and I believe I made it in the year 2000 when I was sixteen.

Other recent blog posts:

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Oh man, iFrames were invaluable back then.

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Nice concert writeup! As someone who lives in a place that good bands never visit, I am SO jealous that you got to see Beach Bunny AND The Beths together. :heart: :raising_hands:

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This week’s tiara offering is the Caldwell Tiara, which was brought to the Antiques Roadshow and has a pretty interesting history! As an interesting tiara tidbit extra, I included a short video of from a different Antiques Roadshow episode of someone who brought her box of tiaras to the Roadshow. Not only that but she is actually wearing a tiara, too!

I also posted this for Blaugust:

Playing Ladies - Just a short reminisce about a childhood memory.

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When I read “bone ships” I was thinking just some small ship carved from a piece of bone, like a small something would be whittled from wood. But oh my gosh! Those ships are wild!

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I wrote a short explainer on the Food Chain of a career in Academia (in Australia), because I had no idea how it worked before I started and none of my family know wtf I am talking about

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Considering how much I love Canada from afar, I’d absolutely take you up on that if it were possible!

But then I’d miss out on Canadian winters, which is part of why I have such a fondness for Canada. :joy:

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the process of figuring myself out has been beautiful. i wish for everyone to find themselves for themselves

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I may be stretching the definition of a blog post for this one, but I was so incredibly proud to be the one delivering this presentation:

Do you know how we communicated with the Artemis II mission? All that crispy high definition video? When I can barely get 5G on Earth, how did they get such a good connection to stream the footage live?

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