#indieweb 2026-08-01

2026-08-01 UTC
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[social] Thanks to a mention on Homebrew, I’ve gone in on Blaugust and aiming at 31 posts between my http://vanderwal.net and http://personalinfocloud.com blogs.
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Loqi [preview] Thomas Vander Wal
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[capjamesg] [social]++ yay!
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Loqi 😊
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "IWFC August 26" https://www.dozenialdragons.me.uk/2026/08/01/iwfc_august_26/
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boredgargoyle [social] ++ thanks to your mention here I went and checked out Blaugust, looks fun 🙂
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[Tabitha] How many of us are participating in Blaugust this year? I'd love to get a count.
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Nconvent10n Is there a central site? Or is this it?
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[capjamesg]2 [Tabitha] As of ~20 mins ago: I am!
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[capjamesg] Nconvent10n The main announcement is at https://nerdgirlthoughts.game.blog/2026/07/15/blaugust-2026-is-coming/ as far as I know. It links to the official Discord server.
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[capjamesg] (To be clear, this is not the official place for Blaugust. But lots of people here are participating!)
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gRegor what is blaugust
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Loqi Blaugust is a community-led blogging challenge to post 31 times during the month of August (optionally using the eponymous hashtag #blaugust), described in Blaugust 2025 is Coming! and has awards & badges you can earn by participating https://indieweb.org/Blaugust
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[tantek] very tempted
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[tantek] interesting "Use of AI as a Blaugust Participant" guidelines too in that main announcement post
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[Tabitha] the more the merrier
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[tantek] should I post every time I create something on Wikipedia?
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[capjamesg] 👀
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[Tabitha] I suppose it does qualify as a post, so yes
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[capjamesg] Also another post in your cybersecurity series!
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[Tabitha] Ace! [capjamesg] I read your post! I enjoy how you write about your experience with nature
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[capjamesg] Thank you 🙌 I think I might do 30 days of Nature posts.
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[capjamesg] Wait, no, I haven’t committed to doing 30 days yet haha.
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[capjamesg] Rather, I might focus my posts on Nature.
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[capjamesg] (Trying not to get ahead of myself 😂 )
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[tantek] nature++
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[capjamesg] I’d love to read some tips on contributing to Wikipedia from you tantek.
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[Tabitha] I love the energy, any number of days (with/out) nature is great
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[capjamesg] I already have an idea for another post but I need to sleep 😂
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[tantek] don't stay up til midnight just to post for August 2nd 🙂
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[social] You can group and post as you wish, but if your self goal is to post daily…
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boredgargoyle [Tabitha] I’ll join but won’t be posting every day, usually work on longer essays. Do I need to register with them? I remember seeing a Google form somewhere
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[tantek] I think it's all optional, may depend on whether you want your name listed somewhere and/or want to earn badges? I believe you can "just" use the hashtag(s) as well
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[Tabitha] Here's the page with the form: https://nerdgirlthoughts.game.blog/2026/07/15/blaugust-2026-is-coming/
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[Tabitha] yep, anyone is welcome to participate with the hashtag without signing up
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boredgargoyle 🐦 coo
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[social] My first Baugust post is up and I think I avoided the blah in Blaugust
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[tantek] Ok same 🙂
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[tantek] filling in the form and question I am most struggling with currently: "Please briefly describe the topic(s) of your blog."
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aaronpk 😅
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[social] I filled in filled in, “a collection of specific random things”
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[tantek] I looked at the posts currently on my homepage and inferred from there
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[tantek] wow the suggest topics/prompts in https://nerdgirlthoughts.game.blog/2026/07/23/blaugust-2026-calendar-weekly-prompts-group-projects/