Posts - page 17

A listing of all long-form posts published to-date. Herein, you'll find my thoughts on concepts, ideas, politics, and more.



So, It's Been Over 20 Years

It’s not a secret that I turn 40 in May. Not a secret, because I can’t stop talking about how conflicted and melancholy this makes me feel. It forces me to look back into the past, twenty some years ago when life was completely different. When things were simpler, and...
published January 16, 2025
#blogging #thoughts #aging


To Build A Website, and Remain Invested

I was surfing the MelonLand forums, looking for interesting topics to read, or even reply to, and then I noticed one I had once replied to late last year, where a user was asking how to stay invested in their own website. And I posted in reply, where I talked...
published January 15, 2025
#webdev #indieweb #webmaster


Ode to My Terminated Tumblr Blog

Twas a month before Christmas, and all through the web, not a creature was stirring, not even a pleb. When all of a sudden, and out of the blue, my blog was deleted, like a silent fuck you. No e-mail, no support, no response, and no word–They took all my...
published January 14, 2025
#tumblr #thoughts #banned #ode


Eternal: Through Time and Space, Forever

Months, and months, and months ago, I started making a really simple space flight game that I wanted to be like Elite. And then I found out that making a game exactly like Elite is actually extremely hard, and takes a very long time (I work a full time job...
published January 14, 2025
#javascript-game #java #gaming #space


Don't Just Ask AI to Stay Away, Block Them

If you’ve been on the internet in the past year and a half to two years, you’re probably very familiar with company’s like OpenAI, where Sam Altman argues that his bots must steal in order for his company to be profitable. And, you’re probably also very aware of the endless...
published January 14, 2025
#blockai #ai #block #htaccess #robots


Fediverse Comments Have Returned

A while back, last year now, I briefly launched a Sharkey instance, and replaced my managed-host Mastodon instance, and since my fediverse comments on this blog weren’t completely compatible, I removed them and replaced them with an embedded comment section that makes calls to my VPS in order to store...
published January 13, 2025
#fediverse #mastodon #wafrn #sharkey


The Backrooms: Tape 1

So, there’s been a bit of a Kane Pixels drought, ever since Found Footage 3 was released, and if you haven’t watched that yet, you need to. I’m assuming the release of these shorts has been slower, due to the production of the full length feature film that was announced...
published January 13, 2025
#thebackrooms #backrooms


When All Else Fails; Ramen

I get off of work, third day of my work week, whole body aching, staving off the pain with exactly three Ibuprofen and nothing else, and I log onto Second Life. Standing outside my static mansion on a hill that no one visits but me, because nobody else is allowed,...
published January 11, 2025
#thoughts #secondlife #ramen #food


Second Life: No, You Don't Get to Dictate What Creators Do

In Second Life, anyone can be a creator, and make their creations available to the virtual world for purchase, and some have found major success with this. Others, it exists, maybe, as more of a hobby. For me, that’s mostly what it is, for now. But this all comes with...
published January 9, 2025
#secondlife #metaverse #creators #stores #virtualworld


MKMO (mkultra.monster) Now Blocks Federation with Threads, Once, and For All

As per my last post this morning (in regard to Meta’s loosening of moderation, as if it wasn’t already loose enough), I, as the admin of mkultra.monster, will be blocking federation with Threads. For a long period of time, I hadn’t been doing this, partially because I don’t like bandwagons,...
published January 7, 2025
#mastodon #fediverse #meta #threads #facebook #instagram