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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 “

Wednesday 2023-02-08 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Wednesday 2023-02-08

08-Feb-2023 – SPIRITED AWAY: Live On Stage Coming to U.S. Theaters This Spring

Brief Summary: ”
Not everyone can be in Japan to see SPIRITED AWAY: Live On Stage, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t see it at all! GKIDS, which also distributes S”

08-Feb-2023 – Professor Layton and The New World of Steam announced

Brief Summary: “Nintendo and Level 5 have solved the mystery of where Professor Layton went with his latest game Professor Layton and The New World of Steam. The game”

08-Feb-2023 – Twitter users experience a “daily limit” error, causing widespread disruption

Brief Summary: “Many users of the social media site Twitter have been unable to post since approximately mid-afternoon in the United States. Users who attempted to po”

08-Feb-2023 – Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania DLC Launches This March

Brief Summary: “Reading Time: 2 minutes Dead Cells is back and the hero of Dead Cells will need all the help he can get when “Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania” laun”

08-Feb-2023 – ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why

Brief Summary: “Two researchers have discovered a cluster of strange keywords that will break ChatGPT, OpenAI’s convincing machine-learning chatbot, and nobody’s quit”

08-Feb-2023 – OnePlus 11 review: rapid Android with long battery life

Brief Summary: “Top-performing phone has great screen, superfast charging and solid camera but lacks pizazzThe OnePlus 11 is one of the first smartphones with the lat”

08-Feb-2023 – Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage

Brief Summary: “There’s been this weird series of articles lately, trying to frame the rapid growth of the fediverse (mainly Mastodon), as somehow now failing. It sta”

Code Project: Fresh RSS to WordPress Digest

I actually briefly mentioned this project when I write about moving from TinyTinyRSS to FreshRSS. This has become a bit of an evolving and ongoing project however, so I’ve decided to catalogue it in it’s own page. This little script worked out much better than I expected, and I’ve modified it a bit over time, and have ideas to modify it going forward even more. Starting off, the code can be found here in this Github GIST.

I’ve left a bit of commented out code that i might use later for troubleshooting or adding additional features. The general gist of the code, it pulls the last 24 hours worth of news stories I have favorited from my FreshRSS install, then formats them into a digest format and posts it here, in this blog. They get sorted into their own category, you can find them here.

This is basically a thing I’ve seen others do that I’ve wanted to do for a while. It’s also partially just for my reference more than anything, it’s sort of a log of everything I have found interesting on a particular day more than anything. Others may or may not find it interest, which is why I also filter that category out of the home page feed.

Originally, it was just a list of URLs and titles. I realized that it might be useful to have SOME idea what the link was about before clicking it, so I have been playing with the summary as well. My first attempt was a bit dodgy because it actually posted the entire article as the summary. Currently, it just arbitrarily chops it off at a few hundred characters. I want to improve it even farther at some point by pushing it through some summarizing AI and getting an actual proper summary but I have not gotten there yet.

There re a few other things I want to add but I’m not sure they re easily possible. Firstly, I would love to be able to parse some sort of categories into the digest. So say, all the “Video Game” links are together and Music links are together. FreshRSS has categories but they don’t seem to show up in the feed anywhere.

This would also allow me to split these posts between this blog and my other blog, Lameazoid. I do share interesting video games news from FreshRSS, but I mostly don’t share Toy related articles, because it feels a little TOO FAR out there for what I want to post to this blog. If there were a way to have the categories, I could easily have the script split the feed by categories and post a digest to each blog.

I also wish there was a way to add my own notes and commentary occasionally. I don’t think it showed up in the feed either, but TinyTinyRSS had a notes feature. I am not sure if FreshRSS has that as well. I probably should try to at least suggest these features to the creators on GitHub, or maybe get really adventurous and create my own plug-ins for FreshRSS to accomplish these tasks.