blogging nets more than text

content/post/2023/01/capturing-video-output-on-nintendo-ds-hardware.md

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 Wait, SD card? Oh, I forgot to tell you, that only works with the DSi. If you have a DS (Lite), you'll have to buy a flashcard and run TWiLight from there (see [the homebrew install guide](https://wiki.ds-homebrew.com/twilightmenu/installing-flashcard)). But as you've got the flashcard slotted, you can't swap it out for a game, meaning `.nds` ROM dumps are needed that `nds-bootstrap` can, well, bootstrap. Except that this sometimes doesn't work, especially with Real Time Clock stuff like Pokémon and Animal Crossing games. 
 
-As for the later Nintendo 3DS, you can install [Luma3DS](https://3ds.hacks.guide/checking-for-cfw) with an exploit in the Pokémon Picross game or using seedminers. If that sounds like Chinese to you, the guide is very thorough, but it admittedly does take a complicated amount set of steps before you can press `L`+`DOWN`+`SELECT` to bring up the [Rosalina menu](https://github.com/LumaTeam/Luma3DS/wiki/Rosalina) where the option "take screenshot" lives. 
+As for the later Nintendo 3DS, you can install [Luma3DS](https://3ds.hacks.guide/checking-for-cfw) with an exploit in the Pokémon Picross game or using seedminers. If that sounds like Chinese to you, the guide is very thorough, but it admittedly does take a complicated amount set of steps before you can press `L`+`DOWN`+`SELECT` to bring up the [Rosalina menu](https://github.com/LumaTeam/Luma3DS/wiki/Rosalina) where the option "take screenshot" lives[^conv]. 
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+[^conv]: This saves _two_ screenshots: one of the top and one of the bottom screen. I neatly paste these two together using ImageMagick's `convert 1.bmp 2.bmp -gravity center -append -transparent white -resize 150% -quality 95 -depth 24 shot.png`. This centers the smaller bottom screenshot, makes the borders transparent, resizes the image to `600x720px`, and slightly optimizes it.
 
 Which only works for 3DS games. For older DS games on the newer 3DS system, the device is still compatible with these cartridges, but the two ARM CPUs run in another layer where your 3DS CFW doesn't work. No worries though, TWiLightMenu++ _does_ work in combination with Luma3DS, but you have to understand that you're using another bootloader which can cause problems during startup or while playing. 
 

content/post/2023/10/blogging-nets-more-than-just-text.md

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+---
+title: "Blogging Nets More Than Just Text"
+date: 2023-10-22T14:50:00+02:00
+categories:
+  - braindump
+tags:
+  - blogging
+---
+
+A recurring trend among bloggers is _meta-blogging_: blogging about blogging. My pristine AI model---namely, my own brain---spotted another variation of this pattern in the RSS feed reader this month, and since I like all things meta except for a certain company called Meta, I want in on it. Here's a short summary of statements I very much align with.
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+- Kev Quirk [made friends thanks to blogging](https://kevquirk.com/friends-from-blogging).
+- Frank Meeuwsen links _Punkrock Publishing_ [to naive blogging optimism](https://diggingthedigital.com/naief-optimisme/).
+- Frank also promotes blogging as a [cozy social place for the web](https://diggingthedigital.com/digital-domestic-cozy-op-het-web/).
+- Roy Tang compares [social media, lurkers, introverts, and blogging](https://roytang.net/2023/10/social-media-lurkers-introverts-blogging/).
+- Ruben Schade [receives too many emails from his readers](https://rubenerd.com/lack-of-email-replies/).
+- Ruben also finds [what's up with bloggers all those years later](https://rubenerd.com/finding-bloggers-all-those-years-later/).
+- Manuel Moreale [writes about the people behind their blogs](https://manuelmoreale.com/people-and-blogs).
+- Joel Chrono invited his readers to [ask him anything](https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/ama-responses-1/).
+- Ben Werdmuller ponders on [long-term effects of blogging](https://werd.io/view/650f67a2d1d7ee402703b7e2).
+- Tracy Durnell summarizes [what she's gotten out of 20 years of blogging](https://tracydurnell.com/2023/09/23/my-20th-anniversary-of-blogging/).
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+I'm sure I've missed a few, feel free to send in more related posts. 
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+As for myself, in 2021 I've already proclaimed [the triumph of blogging](/post/2021/10/a-triumph-for-blogging/) that netted wonderful friends that I still converse with to this day, had me join random Zoom meetings, inspires and expands my thinking, and had me writing and sending letters through snail mail. Looking at the above articles of fellow bloggers, I can only conclude that _Blogging Nets More Than Just Text_: it slowly but surely builds up a following, grows both shallow and deep friendships, keeps you on your toes, constructs a digital archive of your many previous selves, ... 
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+Although my online presence [dates back to 1998](/post/2020/10/a-personal-journey-through-the-history-of-webdesign/), _Brain Baking_ is ten years old, of which I only started taking up blogging seriously six years ago. Most of the above articles focus on the social gains, but seem to undervalue having a wholesome online part of the internet just for yourself. I'm the biggest fan of _Brain Baking_ and _Jefklak's Codex_: I regularly look up and re-read my own writings---not just as a digital knowledge garden where pieces of ideas are be stored that later can be twisted and turned into something else entirely, but also to relive that feeling of that particular period in my life. A blog is also a personal time capsule. 
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+On top of that, as a non-native English speaker and writer, blogging in English immensely helped in mastering the English language where exotic diction, word order, weird hyphenation, wrongly literally translated proverbs, and the Oxford comma reign supreme.
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+I tip my hat to all fellow bloggers out there. I had to look up the correct usage for tipping that hat, but don't let that stop you from writing (or tipping?) that, given enough patience, will grow into something more than just text.