Welcome to August which means once again it is time for the Blaugust Festival of Blogging!
In its simplest form, Blaugust is a blogging challenge “to post 31 times during the month of August”, typically once a day, however, doubling up (etc.) is allowed and provides the nice forgiving flexibility of catching up in case you miss a day.
Started in 2014, the challenge has been officially announced and organized every year since except 2017. However in 2020 there were two! The organizer first moved it up to April, renaming it “Blapril”, then held another in August 2020 with the usual name and routine.
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"text": "Welcome to August which means once again it is time for the Blaugust Festival of Blogging!\n\nIn its simplest form, Blaugust is a blogging challenge \u201cto post 31 times during the month of August\u201d, typically once a day, however, doubling up (etc.) is allowed and provides the nice forgiving flexibility of catching up in case you miss a day.\n\nStarted in 2014, the challenge has been officially announced and organized every year since except 2017. However in 2020 there were two! The organizer first moved it up to April, renaming it \u201cBlapril\u201d, then held another in August 2020 with the usual name and routine.\n\nSee the IndieWeb wiki page for more details and history:\n* https://indieweb.org/Blaugust\nAnd this year\u2019s Blaugust announcement post:\n* https://nerdgirlthoughts.game.blog/2026/07/15/blaugust-2026-is-coming/\n\nIf you\u2019ve been looking for an excuse to start posting again to your blog or personal site, join the challenge and do it with friends.\n\nYou may post about any topic, and simple note posts (like this one) are fine. \n\nI am going to use this as an opportunity to resume my 100 Posts of IndieWeb effort for the year.\n\nThis is post 9 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #IndieWeb \n#August #Blaugust #Blaugust2026\n\n\u2190 https://tantek.com/2026/055/t1/happy-twin-peaks-day\n\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e",
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Robert Downey Jr.’s accent for Victor Von Doom sounds exactly like Nandor the Relentless and it’s going to ruin my enjoyment of the next phase of the MCU 😂
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"text": "Brand New Day is the best Marvel movie I\u2019ve ever seen. So so good!",
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I took a second pass at the indiebookclub UI I was working on. I kept getting stuck because I wanted to let people update the title/author/ISBN in case they were incorrect in Open Library, but I also thought that made the form feel too busy.
Eventually I realized that most of the time people will not need/want to update that information, so I can keep them read-only. This keeps the form minimal for the most common scenario. I can still include an edit link that will open the full form for people that want that level of control.
Since we already have the title from the search results, Read Status is the only other required field. I decided a minimal form would show that and the Tags field. The other fields can be tucked away under Advanced Options. I also tried shortening the Read Status field. I think that helps the visual flow. All of the dropdowns on this form have relatively short text anyway.
Screenshot 1: The default form is much more minimal
Next I updated the Published field. Previously, the field was always displayed and had an instruction to leave it blank if you wanted to publish the post right away. A better UX is if the default says “Now” and the datetime field only appears if you choose to change it.
Screenshot 2: Advanced Options expanded with the default Publish set to “Now”
Screenshot 3: Advanced Options expanded and the “Select Date and Time” option selected
The next thing I am working on is lining up the left side of the title/author/ISBN text with the form inputs below them.
I am quite pleased with how this is turning out. Let me know what you think!
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CoreELEC has really improved quite a bit in the last year or so. The latest nightlies even have full support for esoteric Dolby Vision features and the VS10 capabilities for tone mapping SDR and HDR to Dolby Vision. Kodi even feels snappy!
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"text": "If you don\u2019t want your GitHub repositories in HuggingFace\u2019s data set used for LLM training, unfortunately you need to opt-out.\n\nFind out if you\u2019re in the crawl and follow the opt-out instructions at the bottom.",
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