Daily Blogroll

The Daily Blogroll — Wednesday, 22 July 2026

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Stargrace is deep in Wurm Online mining grind mode, pushing from 83 toward 99 while juggling meditation and an army of brick-making priests.

Tipa’s Frosthaven crew bungles Spire Basement hilariously, clogging the start with traps and obstacles before chasing a Living Doom kill for her Trapper quest.

Frostilyte marvels at Mewgenics’ absurdly detailed in-game radio, a pointless-on-paper feature that quietly makes the world feel weirdly alive.

Shintar digs through Data for Azeroth and realizes her supposedly casual World of Warcraft playstyle has earned some surprisingly rare achievements.

Tobold argues Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous loses plenty of players to complexity, but that same brutal barrier is exactly where the fun lives.

Joar writes about retirement, moving, and the big unasked questions his sons are really asking sideways about whether he’s okay and whether it was worth it.

Brennan pushes back on vibe coding bravado, arguing AI-generated mountains of code are a maintenance liability, not a meaningful productivity flex.

Warner reads Apple’s rumored device leasing plan as another step toward segmented computing, where financing softens sticker shock but widens who gets access.

Bruce Schneier flags MIT’s rollout of 500-plus AI surveillance cameras with face, object, and behavior classification, and the takeaway is basically just: yikes.

Dave Winer sketches rss.chat as a three-part RSS ecosystem for writing, reading, and whatever indie developers build in the space between.

Wilhelm kicks off Blaugust 2026, keeping Belghast’s blogging tradition alive with the usual signups, Discord, and room for both daily grinders and casual posters.

Blockade85 reflects on building basic self-care habits, surviving summer projects and Poison Everything, and maybe reviving a writing routine before Blaugust.

The Daily Blogroll — Tuesday, 21 July 2026

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Azuriel is not having a great time with Breath of the Wild, blaming weapon durability, clunky menus, and combat rewards that make fighting feel pointless.

Bhagpuss gets cheerfully hooked on Hethereau’s Midnight Catzebo scratch-card event, proving 999 Nights added at least one very effective money sink.

Krista highlights Lavender Station’s demo as a calm, hand-drawn train-station sim built around cleaning, decorating, and zero-pressure cosy routines.

Scopique finds a near-perfect TradeWars 2002 throwback in Warp to Sector One, with just enough modern UI to spare the paper notes.

David recaps a lively Slug House session, with guild politics, a creeping swamp, and the Battle Brothers chasing a giant slug through Uzul’s manor.

Wilhelm breaks down EVE Online’s proposed Ansiblex jump bridge nerfs, with smaller ships favored and capitals locked out in a very nullsec-shaping change.

UltrViolet digs into traffic logs and finds RSS dominates his readership, then pivots to thoughts on aging Kindles and Dungeon Crawler Carl.

Jamie Zawinski turns an SD-card errand into a small manifesto against paying wildly inflated storage prices on principle.

Pete likes AI but argues it can sabotage learning to code, especially when search and editor autocomplete hand you the answer too fast.

Juhis spots a perfect note-taking exchange in See How They Run and delights in the ‘write everything down first’ philosophy.

Magi kicks off Blaugust 2026 with signup details, posting milestones, and a community-builder track that keeps the event about connection, not just output.

Tofutush answers an OC questionnaire on influences like MLP and Homestuck, favorite tropes, and why paranoia keeps showing up in her characters.

The Daily Blogroll — Monday, 20 July 2026

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Shintar celebrates finishing a SWTOR Jedi Knight story, then dives into how often each class story got completed across her alts.

Kimimi makes a strong case for Atari 2600 Haunted House as real survival horror, with darkness, matches, and lightning doing the heavy lifting.

Nicole digs into the gloriously janky Brick Game, from weird packaging to fake variety and its very obvious Tetris obsession.

Wilhelm checks in on Fantasy Critic League as The Incident at Galley House waits on reviews and Denshattack! lands a strong early score.

The Chronicler gives Three Days of Gettysburg: Deluxe Edition an overview, spotlighting GMT’s lavish components, optional rules, and big Civil War scope.

Tobold says AI is great for cutting through SEO sludge and surfacing usable Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous build advice, hallucinations included.

WCRobinson recaps a personal push in Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel’s World Championship Qualifiers, covering prep, decks, performance, and lessons learned.

Andrew Plotkin flags a browser-playable return for The Fool and his Money, plus a neat little tour through puzzle-game preservation woes.

Tipa turns presidential history into a speedrun leaderboard, with Teddy Roosevelt’s record and 2028 contenders like AOC, Ossoff, and Tiffany Trump.

Brennan argues the IndieWeb needs a ladder, not a purity test, with easy platforms as stepping stones toward fuller ownership.

Dave Winer shares a WordPress example app for rss.chat and keeps pushing inbound RSS as a way to break social web lock-in.

Roger tunes up his Squarespace blog for Blaugust with a post counter and a much beefier, cleaner blogroll setup.

The Daily Blogroll — Sunday, 19 July 2026

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Stargrace’s Wurm Online Friendship Bay trip wraps with forge-side socializing, named animal prizes, and a very relatable ready-to-go-home energy.

Tipa says Captain Sonar was a total hit: turn-based tutorial maps, surprise torpedoes, and a kid-friendly party game nobody checks their phone during.

Wes rounds up early PlayStation 5 emulation buzz, plus more N64 recompilation, fan-translation, and MiSTer save-sync chatter.

Ashley Schofield argues Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike’s parry system is the real masterpiece, even if the roster and balance are gloriously messy.

Scarybooster turns Soulframe into pure battle-poetry, riffing on Wrath, Death, Doom, parries, mounts, and going full wildfire across Midrath.

Ellie finds Viewfinder’s climate-collapse story gives its puzzle-box simulation real weight, making this bleak little puzzler stick harder than usual.

Wilhelm crunches his 2026 gaming spreadsheet: EVE Online leads, but Stardew Valley, Forza Horizon 6, and Windrose are the ones still gaining ground.

Bhagpuss freewheels through a grab bag on memory, vaudeville, and music hall with the kind of digressive charm that makes the whole thing work.

Warner marks turning 70 with a short Sunday reading list on kids, meaning, politics, and Google’s culture, all filtered through birthday perspective.

Bruce Schneier’s weekly squid check-in points to Cape Cod’s beached squid and opens the floor for whatever security news he missed.

Jamie Zawinski responds to a new WordPress exploit with the nuclear option: disable REST, XML-RPC, oEmbed, JSONP, and even WordPress AI support.

Dave Winer shares rss.chat’s new firehose and JSON RSS experiments, then gives devs a pep talk about AI collaboration and protecting interop.

The Daily Blogroll — Saturday, 18 July 2026

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

John loves Kaz’s frantic tile-based arcade scoring, where upgrades, curses, and cursor-combo spells turn simple movement into dense tactics.

UltrViolet finds Rise of the Ronin mostly average, with the real boss fight being PS5 button memory and that triangle parry.

Sey rounds up Secret Sauce Showcase standouts, from fakeOS horror in SPRKLS.exe to Dreadmoor and Mirage Miracle Quest.

Bhagpuss revisits Palworld for 1.0 and remembers a survival hit that started fun, then drifted into sameness, fiddliness, and chores.

Wilhelm revisits Steam Early Access, weighing playable launches like Valheim, Enshrouded, and Palworld against the usual pay-now, maybe-later gamble.

The Chronicler says March of the Ants: Evolved Edition packs a proper 4X strategy game into 90 minutes, with ants instead of armies.

Jimmy digs into Maxis chasing business simulations after SimCity 2000, including the gloriously uncommercial SimHealth bureaucracy sim.

Anarchae checks back in after family travel with sci-fi reads, Project Hail Mary and old movies, plus Zelda TotK and Fate/GO progress.

Warner is gearing up for a smoke-cleared, grandkid-filled weekend and sounds happily braced for a big day.

Roger finally snaps at Windows 11, arguing its bloat, bugs, and flaky MTP tablet transfers make a new OS feel overdue.

Jamie Zawinski blasts YouTube’s DMCA counter-claim gauntlet after a fair-use Bonnie Tyler parody restoration got rejected and ID verification failed.

Dave Winer says rss.chat now supports feed discovery and argues the social web should embrace full-text posts instead of ActivityPub-style complexity.