Welcome to Blaugust!
Blaugust is now underway and, if I know myself, I’m busy reading the posts produced by everyone else. Keeping up with other people’s blogging is where I find my happiness in Blaugust.
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Blaugust 2026 Cometh!
The 2026 edition of Blaugust is arriving in less than two weeks. I’m not at all prepared, but I do plan on participating in a rough and ready fashion as is my usual approach. If you blog at all you should sign up and participate as much or as little as you can.
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Automatic Linux upgrades
This blog runs on a small box (an Intel NUC) sitting in my basement using Fedora Core Linux. I have regularly forgotten this box in terms of maintenance for as much as a year or two. The good news is that the little machine keeps on working without a complaint.
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Lots of words
I like to write, and to share what I write with others. I started blogging back in 2000 or thereabouts, so this is nothing new
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Sorry, LinkedIn- I wanted BlueSky
I was surprised a short while ago when I realized that my blog was cross-posting all of my posts to LinkedIn. I don’t really live on LinkedIn at all- my account there was created more or less because a couple of decades or so ago my employer made it effectively mandatory.
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Will you click this link on Facebook?
I “cross-post” most of my blog entries as links on Facebook. My intent is to have most of my writing here on my own blog, mostly so I can retain some semblance of ownership over my own words. And I want my Facebook friends to stay in touch as well.
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Duuuuummmbbb
I posted earlier about my attempts to improve my site rendering speed by upgrading my blog server’s RAM. As I noted in that post, it didn’t seem like the changes made much if any difference to the rendering speed in the Safari browser.
After much experimentation, I can hereby clarify/correct all of my previous observations and guesses. The rendering speed problem is not related to my server’s RAM nor is it the fault of the Safari web browser. Instead, my site renders slowly for me because I am logged in as the WordPress administrator for the site.
Boy, do I feel dumb now. Allow me to explain in order to hopefully prevent you from feeling dumb as well.
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Blog web server upgrade
I have completed a simple upgrade to the little box that serves my blogs. I have increased its RAM from 16 gigabytes to 64 gigabytes.
I had observed some page loading slow-downs under some conditions recently. My quick review gave me the idea that some of the blogs processes might be a bit starved for memory. Too much of the system’s work seemed to be regularly swapped to virtual memory swap (SSD), a condition generally to be avoided.
The change in memory capacity and process configuration seems to have made the blogs a bit more responsive. However, it appears that most of the slow rendering I’ve noted relates more to Safari behaviour with the content of the site than with any shortcomings of my server hardware.
I’ve included some more detail below the ‘Read More’ fold for those who are interested.
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Blaugust 2025 numbers
I had few serious goals for my sophomore Blaugust participation in 2025. Essentially I just wanted to feel like I was involved despite having a low ‘blogging’ drive. And I achieved that limited goal: mostly by reading the work of other, more energetic participants.
Once again I’ve gathered some ‘end of August’ numbers illustrating the nuts and bolts of my blogging experience. I’ve definitely proven the adage that you get out of life what you put into it: my low-energy involvement with Blaugust 2025 is reflected in my rather weak statistics for the month. But I still feel I got more than I deserved in terms of ideas, support, and inspiration.
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