Endgame Viable

I saw Roger mention Void’s post Finding A New Internet Home on the Blaugust Discord and again in his recent post . It’s a post I could have written. In my opinion, social media as a general concept for socializing is long since “over.” It’s now dominated by an overarching stain of the sales industry, as so many things in life are these days. As a place to socialize an...

Bhagpuss reminded me that Blaugust has been fairly anti-AI in the past, and here I am running around crowing about all my fancy schmancy new AI tools to help me blog more efficiently to get ready for Blaugust. Past Controversy I don’t think I was involved in Blaugust last year at all, either reading or writing, as it was about two months after my cancer diagnosis and brain surgery and I was...

Aw screw it, I’ll make this post tonight too, since I’m on a roll right now. This is how I’ll be able to write a post a day for Blaugust. For reference, here’s the post referenced in these screenshots. I start a blog post by typing this: make post The new post opens within the Antigravity IDE editor and I start typing Markdown until I’ve had enough. That and only that...

One more test post. I’ve been working on updating my blog theme to give it a little more modern kick. Modern, at least, in the manner of whatever Gemini gets from its “modern-web-style” plugin. You guessed it: I’m just prompting Gemini to do it for me, through the medium of the Antigravity IDE. Who has the time or energy to keep up with all the crazy css rules out there the...

I can now reveal that the extremely annoying auto-writing “feature” of Antigravity IDE can be turned off when working with a plain Markdown (or any text, presumably). Go to the lower right corner of the IDE, click on Antigravity - Settings, and turn off “Suggestions in Editor.” This knowledge will allow me to continue writing blog posts within Antigravity IDE, as opposed to...

I just went out to Burger King and got a Whopper combo. This is the biggest meal I’ve eaten since probably last Thursday. Over the weekend, for example, a big meal for me was a Jello cup or a piece of cheese. One thing I’m really hating about Antigravity IDE is that whenever I type in Markdown–that is, whenever I type a blog post–it thinks I want suggestions for how to comp...

The main obstacles for me to publishing lots and lots and lots of blog posts are: Creating a title Creating a summary of the post Choosing or creating an image for the post An endless loop of perfectionism that requires every word to be perfect before publication I can’t do much about that last one, but the first ones are solvable. Many, many of my posts have sat in drafts forever because I...

This is an experiment. I’m thinking about Blaugust coming up, and what I can do for Blaugust, and how I might honor Belghast during Blaugust. The best I can come up with is to try to emulate his style: That is, get up in the morning, write for a short, fixed amount of time, and publish it. I always thought of what he was doing as a variation of Morning Pages as described in The Artist’...

I’m devastated to hear about Belghast’s passing . I have few words to offer, as I’m not in a position to do much writing at the moment. But he was a constant source of good in the world of MMORPG blogging and I always enjoyed his work. He will be greatly missed. All my condolences to his family and friends.

We’re into summer now, where every day challenges the air conditioning system. July and August are the peak “every day is in the 90s [30s]” where I live. Upgraded MacBook I bought a new MacBook Pro. Upgrading from the old MacBook Pro was a breeze, and it magically migrated everything from the old one to the new one. Apple is actually good at some things. (By comparison, every Win...