mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchIncreasingly old and grumpy programmer / gamer / motorcyclist / pet parent.
Am I part of the Indieweb?
Juhis tells us that there is no membership card for the Indieweb blogging community. I like his thesis as I sort of feel like I'm at least on the periphery of the Indieweb movement....
#blaugust #blaugust2026 #gatekeeping #indieauth #indieweb #webmentions
Creator appreciation: Bethesda and CD Project Red
This is the third week of Blaugust, and the topic of discussion for the week is creator appreciation....
#bethesda #blaugust #blaugust2026 #cdprojectred #creatorappreciation
https://aginggamer.net/game-miscellany/creator-appreciation-bethesda-and-cd-project-red/
Finding motivation
It is the fourth week of Blaugust, and the topic is on staying motivated. I normally don't post very frequently on my blog, so any increase over perhaps two or three times in a month is a significant goal for me....
Blogging about games becomes harder
There was a time for me when blogging about games was easy. I was gaming almost daily and my time spent in front of a console or PC games machine probably averaged two or three hours per day, seven days per week....
#blaugust #blaugust2026 #industry #playing #time #wornout #writing
https://aginggamer.net/site-news/blogging-about-games-becomes-harder/
Free Witcher 3 remaster!
If you have a PC, PS5, or XBox X/S with a copy of Witcher 3- rejoice! CD Project RED is giving us some free stuff in the coming weeks....
#blaugust #blaugust2026 #cdprojectred #songsofthepast #witcher3
https://aginggamer.net/game-miscellany/free-witcher-3-remaster/
About /now
One of the posts I came across during Blaugust was this one by David Somers aka Omz13 about Nownownow…...
An opinion about RSS
There has been a bit of discussion in the Blaugust community about the importance and nature of RSS feeds for bloggers....
Throwback: Still quantified
I was just beginning to explore the concept of health monitoring or self-quantifying back in 2013…...
#applewatch #blaugust #blaugust2026 #fitbitflex #oura #quantification
Thirty one
As of today I have achieved the old school / traditional goal of Blaugust: posting 31 times in the month....
Iris is gone
We had our beloved cat Iris euthanized after a long illness on May 1 of this year at the age of 19 and one half years....
Purpose
I read a post by Toby on the topic of purpose as a general concept in life and found it very insightful....
Server outage- MariaDB and Fedora problems
My blog went down overnight without any planning on my part. When I checked it this morning, all three of my sites were showing an error that looked like this:...
#blaugust #blaugust2026 #fedora #mariadb #mysql #outage
https://www.kgadams.net/sitenews/server-outage-mariadb-and-fedora-problems
AI Waste
I have Opinions™ about artificial intelligence. I'm not wholly against it, but I do feel that the current over-enthusiastic investment and circular dealing in the industry is a toxic aberration....
Warren Spector retiring
I came across this post over on Engadget about Warren Spector retiring from the games industry. It caught me a bit in my emotions, and stirred up a few thoughts....
#blaugust #blaugust2026 #deusex #thief #ultima #warrenspector
https://aginggamer.net/game-industry/warren-spector-retiring/
AI watermarking
I came across something on Engadget about AI watermarking being implemented to comply with new EU regulations....
On being mortified
There was a post over on the DivergentRays blog about mortifying things one has said or done....
Stop Killing Games
Rock, Paper, Shotgun had an interesting article on the activities of the consumer protection group Stop Killing Games (SKG)...
#blaugust #blaugust2026 #lawsuits #skg #Sony #stopkillinggames
Organoid Intelligence
I read an excellent article on Wired the other day on the topic of organoids and thought I'd share a bit about it here....
Python comes with batteries included
Another Blaugust post, another bit of inspiration comes my way... Juhis posted on their blog about Python's philosophy of "batteries are included"...
#basic #batteriesincluded #blaugust #blaugust2026 #pascal #python
https://www.kgadams.net/geekdom/python-comes-with-batteries-included
