Junited wrap-up
- Some stats:
- 24 posts written
- 123 links (not counting links to my own blog or fedi account)
- 76 links to actual blog posts (not counting links to things like fediverse accounts, wikipedia, git repos, and other "general information" links)
- 11+ new blogs added to my rss feeds :)
- 7,242 words written
- 1 exhausted Dane
I started off writing a post that had three entries. I wanted to continue that for the whole month. That was a mistake. XD
It was just a bit too much work to find and write about three blog links every single day, and I quickly exhausted my RSS feeds, and had to work harder and harder to find new (I'm going to say the hated word, I'm sorry) "content." (ugh 😆)
There were some things I really wanted to write about at the very end, but I just ran out of steam, physically.
All in all, though, it was a wonderful experience. I met a lot of really neat bloggers and fediverse people, and made some new internet friends. Yay!
Thanks to Robert Birming for getting this party started. ;)
Junited 2026
Introduction
I received a kind shout-out from Juhis Santala this morning, mentioning my previous blog post regarding the tilde (~) movement key in vi/nvi/vim, and how I tweaked it.
Reading his blog post, I discovered the "Junited" blogging theme, a way of bringing bloggers together for the month …
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A New Socratic Sign, or: Writer's Block as a Work of Grace
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I wrote previously about my experience of a "Socratic Sign" as a student: how my experience of wonder and exhilaration in my studies kept me going through the relative stress and …
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Why Do We Blog?
A few days ago, I was reading someone's blog (I don't remember who)* that was talking about the art and the "why" of blogging (or it might've been in a chat conversation, I'm not sure). I had been thinking of posting something about it, because when I told someone IRL …
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What is a blost, anyway?
Welcome to the PADDING.
This blost is a part of the interstitial spaces that make up my blog. It's here to support other blosts. Think of it as one of the glial cells supporting the superstructure of the twisted online brain that is https://rldane.space/.
Of course, that doesn't …
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Blog Questions Challenge 2025
I came across this set of questions from hyde (a.k.a. Lazy Bear)'s blog, and immediately loved it. It reminds me a bit of the kind of overly personal* questions that got passed between friends on facebook circa 2008, and email circa 2000.
* They didn't feel overly personal …
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100 Days to Offload — Kicking 2025 Off Right
After the enjoyable success of Writing Month last November, I feel like I want to start a new challenge for 2025: "100 Days To Offload."
I'm going to aim for 10 blog posts per month (which is an average of one blog post every 3.04 days), finishing on October …
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Goodbye NaNoWriMo, hello Writing Month!
FediFriend Amin wrote this in Early September:
Well, NaNoWriMo has made an official statement that they believe categorical condemnation of "AI" to be classist and ableist. I'm… I'm just done with them.
I used to overlook issues I was seeing with the organization behind NaNo, but… this is too much …
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NaNoWriMo Debrief
I've heard about NaNoWriMo going back at least eight years. I had classmates (back when I was a middle-aged college student ;) talk to me about it, but I always thought the 50,000 words goal was just unattainable.
This year, I finally stepped up to the plate and participated, although …
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