February 2023

Tuesday 2023-02-21 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Tuesday 2023-02-21

20-Feb-2023 – Amazon’s Delivery Estimate Update Emails Are The New “Thrill Of The Hunt” Store Finds

Brief Summary: “As we continue living through the unending hellish nightmare of Diseasney Star Wars, I do my best to look for whatever glimmer of hope, ray of light, “

20-Feb-2023 – Pokémon Go’s ticketed Las Vegas event marred by network issues

Brief Summary: ”
This weekend’s ticketed Pokémon Go Hoenn Tour event in Las Vegas received a poor reception – literally – due to phone network connectivity issues whi”

21-Feb-2023 – Uncommon Realities: The 16th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE 2023) Conference Takes Place in Second Life, March 23rd to 25th, 2023

Brief Summary: “The theme of VWBPE 2023 conference is Uncommon RealitiesOnce again this March, the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference (VWBPE for sh”

21-Feb-2023 – Magic: the Gathering Lord of the Rings Launch Date and More

Brief Summary: “Reading Time: 2 minutes In the upcoming set, The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth, players have the chance to join the Fellowship in adventur”

20-Feb-2023 – Is the Age of “Free” Internet Fading? This Might be a Good Thing!

Brief Summary: ”
There’s a new wind blowing through the Internet lately. We’re starting to see a push for previously free services to ask for money.”

21-Feb-2023 – Travel the World Looking for Retro Tech, Virtually

Brief Summary: “For those who have a passion for vintage hardware, whether it be a classic computer or a war-surplus ham radio rig, finding the things without resorti”

21-Feb-2023 – YouTube As Infinite File Storage

Brief Summary: “Anyone who was lucky enough to secure a Gmail invite back in early 2004 would have gasped in wonder at the storage on offer, a whole gigabyte! Nearly “

20-Feb-2023 – Pluralistic: Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU (20 Feb 2023)

Brief Summary: ”
Today’s links
Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU: Why do Americans have to pay Intuit to tell the IRS things it already knows?

H”

21-Feb-2023 – It’s A Mystery (Fest)

Brief Summary: ” One thing Steam does really badly, in my opinion, is promote its own events. Even though I log in almost every day, all I ever seem to see is the po”

Monday 2023-02-20 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Monday 2023-02-20

20-Feb-2023 – End-to-end encrypted Kitten Chat

Brief Summary: “Sorry, your browser doesn’t support embedded videos. But that doesn’t mean you can’t watch it! You can download
Small Is Beautiful #27 direc”

20-Feb-2023 – Free 2D space exploration sim Endless Sky v0.10.0 adds new factions, gets better AI

Brief Summary: “If you love free and open source games keep an eye on the 2D space sim Endless Sky, which just got a new Beta release with version 0.10.0 giving some “

20-Feb-2023 – Minecraft 1.20 adding Archeology, Cherry Blossom Biome and a Sniffer mob

Brief Summary: “There’s lots to be excited for in the upcoming Minecraft 1.20 update, with many previously announced features finally landing like Archeology.”

20-Feb-2023 – Ask HN: What are these strange random strings spamming my blog?

Brief Summary: “Comments”

Sunday 2023-02-19 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Sunday 2023-02-19

17-Feb-2023 – Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication

Brief Summary: “Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty ImagesFour hours ago, Platformer’s Zoe Schiffer tweeted a scoop: Twitter would begin charging for SM”

17-Feb-2023 – The Marvels is being pushed back to November

Brief Summary: “Brie Larson as Carol Danvers in Ms. Marvel. | Image: Disney Plus / MarvelThe Marvels — director Nia DaCosta’s follow-up to the first Captain Marvel — “

17-Feb-2023 – Roblox is working on generative AI tools

Brief Summary: “Image: RobloxRoblox (the company) is working on generative AI tools to help developers who build experiences on Roblox more easily create games and as”

17-Feb-2023 – All Your Base Are Belong to Us — Zero Wing (and other classics) hit Steam

Brief Summary: “Zero Wing along with other shoot ’em up classics Out Zone, Twin Cobra and Truxton from Toaplan and Bitwave Games have their brand new PC releases out.”

17-Feb-2023 – The full list of releases for Record Store Day 2023 have been revealed, with Taylor Swift, The 1975, Blur, Bastille, The Big Moon and more

Brief Summary: “The full list of releases for this year’s highly anticipated Record Store Day has finally been unveiled. Taking place on Saturday, April 22nd, the eve”

18-Feb-2023 – Gentle Scrabble hacks

Brief Summary: “Perhaps these might make a great game more fun:

Maximize total score: Exactly the same rules as regular Scrabble, but focus on increasing the total”

18-Feb-2023 – Fast X Trailer: Bad Guys Have Families Too, Dom!

Brief Summary: ”
At a time when the Star Wars movie franchise doesn’t seem to be making any headway, The Fast And Furious franchise is riding strong into its 10th mov”

17-Feb-2023 – Daredevil Movie Director Admits Backlash On Kingpin Casting

Brief Summary: ”
Did you know that a live-action Daredevil Movie exists? Daredevil is enjoying its 20th anniversary this year! That’s right, Daredevil had it’s openin”

18-Feb-2023 – Hasbro unveils new Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon Classics figures

Brief Summary: “As Dungeons & Dragons prepares to make its big screen comeback with the upcoming Honor Among Thieves, Hasbro has unveiled three new 6-inch Cartoon Cla”

17-Feb-2023 – Universal Orlando Announces Super Nintendo World

Brief Summary: “New area planned for Epic Universe theme park”

Thursday 2023-02-16 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Thursday 2023-02-16

15-Feb-2023 – Ghibli Park to Install Electric Catbuses This Year

Brief Summary: “The park has allocated a 6.5 billion yen (about US$49 million) budget for 2023”

16-Feb-2023 – LEGO lights it up with BTS Dynamite LEGO Ideas set

Brief Summary: “BTS Army can soon own their favourite South Korean boy band in brick form as LEGO has unveiled the LEGO Ideas BTS Dynamite set which allows fans to re”

16-Feb-2023 – [Epic] Warpips (Free / 100% Off)

Brief Summary: “submitted by /u/Musth [link] [comments]”

15-Feb-2023 – [GOG] Alien Breed Trilogy (-100%, FREE)

Brief Summary: ” submitted by /u/Clownski_GOG [link] [comments] “

16-Feb-2023 – Five Lord of the Rings games in the works at Embracer releasing by 2024

Brief Summary: ”
Five Lord of the Rings games are in the works at Embracer, planned for release in the financial year 2023/2024.

The news comes from the latest finan”

13-Feb-2023 – Super Mario Bros. Movie launches Easter egg-filled plumbing advert

Brief Summary: ”
As the hype campaign for the Super Mario Bros. Movie ramps up, there’s now an advert for the brothers’ fictitious plumbing company to watch, and a t”

14-Feb-2023 – Minecraft 1.20 details new mob, archaeology, and a surprise new biome

Brief Summary: “Mojang have spent the week revealing new details of Minecraft’s 1.20 update, including two of the things pictured above: the new Sniffer mob, which wo”

13-Feb-2023 – Overwatch 2 accused of deliberately misleading players with the newest battle pass

Brief Summary: ”
Overwatch 2’s third season released last week with a new Antarctic-themed map, a promised Valentine’s dating sim, and, of course, another battle pass”

16-Feb-2023 – Paramore have shared their new video for ‘Running Out of Time’

Brief Summary: “Paramore have released the music video for their latest single, ‘Running Out of Time’, from their recently released album ‘This Is Why’.

Of the tr”

16-Feb-2023 – Lizzy McAlpine has shared a new video for second album cut, ‘ceilings’

Brief Summary: “Lizzy McAlpine has shared a new video for her single ‘ceilings’.

Directed by frequent collaborator Gus Black, it’s a cut from her second studio alb”

14-Feb-2023 – CHVRCHES have confirmed their new single ‘Over’ will drop before the end of the month

Brief Summary: “CHVRCHES have confirmed their new single ‘Over‘ will drop before the end of the month.

First teased last week, the new cut will arrive on Friday 24”

15-Feb-2023 – WordPress Apps are Juggling Features

Brief Summary: ”
WordPress is finally making the move to break their single app into two separate apps – which was something I heard was in the plans a good while bac”

13-Feb-2023 – Grogu to Play a Much More Central Role in The Mandalorian Season 3

Brief Summary: “For the first two seasons of The Mandalorian, Grogu was a cub that mostly needed to be protected and cared for by Din Djarin. While the little guy def”

16-Feb-2023 – YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki steps down after nine years

Brief Summary: “One of Google’s earliest employees, she rented out her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they founded the companyThe CEO of YouTube, Susan Woj”

Sunday 2023-02-12 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Sunday 2023-02-12

09-Feb-2023 – Dead Cells board game coming from designers of 7 Wonders and Cyclades

Brief Summary: “Dead Cells, the indie video game, is getting turned into a board game by the designers of 7 Wonders – Antoine Bauza – and Cyclades: Bauza and Ludovic “

09-Feb-2023 – Epic’s new clips app helps you easily share moments from Fortnite and Rocket League

Brief Summary: “Land an awesome jump? Clip it. | Image: Epic GamesEpic Games has just released Postparty, a new iOS and Android app to help you share clips from your “

10-Feb-2023 – Game Boys and Samus and Zelda, Oh My!

Brief Summary: “Wednesday’s Nintendo Direct video presentation was an absolute barnburner! Previously delayed titles like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom an”

09-Feb-2023 – A 3D Printed way to Custom Mount your GoPro

Brief Summary: ”
With a 3D printed adapter, we can add a clamp for a camera mount to the middle of a hoverboard without obstructing riding or interfering with the pos”

12-Feb-2023 – Dungeons and Dragons Board Game from the 1980s holds a TMS1100

Brief Summary: “Today is a little tour back to the early 1980s when Mattel released the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Computer Labyrinth Game. [Cameron Kaiser] was dealing with “

11-Feb-2023 – Raspberry Pi Weather Station Features Wireless Sensor Nodes

Brief Summary: “Online weather services are great for providing generic area forecasts, but they don’t provide hyperlocal data specific to your location. [Harald Kreu”

12-Feb-2023 – Lego Releases ‘Insanely Detailed’ Lord of the Rings Set for $500

Brief Summary: “In J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Two Towers, it’s in Elrond’s home city of Rivendell that Frodo chooses to destroy the ring of power.
And now Lego has created”

10-Feb-2023 – Paramore – This Is Why

Brief Summary: “Label: Fueled By Ramen Released: 10th February 2023

Never stand still. That’s been the Paramore way for the last decade. From their self-titled fou”

09-Feb-2023 – Only Serifs

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09-Feb-2023 – WordPress.com Is Testing AI-Generated Images and Content

Brief Summary: “WordPress.com is currently testing two new blocks for generating images and paragraph content using AI. The blocks, which are currently labeled as exp”

10-Feb-2023 – Minecraft’s long-delayed archaeology system coming in this year’s 1.20 update

Brief Summary: ”
Nearly two years after its initial delay, Minecraft’s long-awaited archeology feature is finally on the horizon, with developer Mojang now confirming”

11-Feb-2023 – [IndieGala] Control Craft 2 ( 100% OFF / FREE )

Brief Summary: ” submitted by /u/aniruddhdodiya [link] [comments] “

09-Feb-2023 – [Epic] Recipe for Disaster (Free / 100% Off)

Brief Summary: “submitted by /u/Musth [link] [comments]”

09-Feb-2023 – Free Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest Valentine’s cards available online from Square Enix【Photos】

Brief Summary: ”
Forget Cupid. This year let Chocobo and Slime deliver your message of love.

Finding your one true love isn’t easy. You’ll likely have to search far “