Tipa wrapped 31-for-31 Blaugust, reflected on Belghast and the IndieWeb, and said EverQuest Legends basically carried her posting month.
Azuriel sees Xbox’s disc-linked transferable digital license idea as the first real crack in the wall of digital game ownership.
Emily returns from a summer blogging break refreshed, with fanfiction, finished games, privacy worries, and a nostalgic GBA boss post queued up.
Owls closed out a 31-post Blaugust by reflecting on EQL, idea droughts, and keeping the blog personal instead of too meta.
Wilhelm highlights EverQuest’s new Lethar TLP server starting with The Serpent’s Spine, a very WoW-era guided leveling experiment turned nostalgia play.
Joar audits retirement like a business review and finds the real surprise wasn’t reading or fitness, but writing without planning for it.
Kelly added WordPress archive word counts with a PHP snippet, plus some honest notes on caching, SQL, and where the logic still wobbles.
Brennan argues open source needs to stop normalizing far-right politics, focusing this post on DHH, Shopify, Ruby Central, and Rails money.
Tim Bray fixed a Quamina data race, then used the detour to explain why he’s done accepting most LLM-generated PRs.
Scopique pitches a gloriously cursed wireless AI Ouija board powered by magnets, motors, a mic, and just enough engineering to spook the group chat.
Axxuy says work and exhaustion wrecked Blaugust plans, but the blog’s still alive and they’re hoping September goes better.
Tofutush argues AI “tells” in text and art mostly just misfire on real people, especially non-native and neurodivergent creators.