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Experiments, Random Musing, Rants

Unsure an Evader Machine is Needed to Duck the Slop

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on November 28, 2025November 28, 2025

This sounds entrancing, especially with the spooky like melty text splash screen, heard about just a few clicks ago in 404 Media as “‘Slop Evader’ Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022” taglined “search the internet before AI”. A browser extension for avoiding AI slop.  Download it for Chrome or Firefox. This is a search tool that […]

Experiments, Wordpress

The Fediverse Autoembedding Mystery Untangled

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on November 26, 2025November 26, 2025

Testing some fediversal URL auto embeds for WordPress happening in this here blog, now with slapping a naked URL on its own line: which embeds beautifully just like this- SHAZAM!~ Can we go beyond mastodon? What about a pixelfed URL? and yup. I am seeing an embedded pixelfed photo here. WINNING! As it turns out […]

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Dogroll in Space: Making a Daily Create

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on November 20, 2025November 20, 2025

For some blogging may be a chore, no longer worth the time spent scrolling, something to pump up your audience, to self promote, yeah, but for me to get back to some roots, that Udellian concept of “narrating your work”. It’s not only “here’s something I did/wrote/made/” but “this is how I did it” and […]

Blogging, Wordpress

Featuring Featured Images

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on November 19, 2025November 19, 2025

In the WordPress Beginning there was a post and pretty much it was title, text, an author, a category/tag, a permalink, and that was it. It’s hard to imagine blogs or news style web sites anymore that do not have an icon image that represents it, that plays a prominent display role as a banner, […]

Life, Ursa

Crookers The Cat: A Year in the Box

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on November 16, 2025November 16, 2025

While the dog theme is deeply engraved here at CogDogBlog we are inclusive to… cats. This is a story of Crookshanks the Cat, who showed up on our acreage and crawled into our hearts. And… survived a year outside in the -30ºC Saskatchewan winter. But First, The Oscar Story and His Condo First of all, […]

CogDog It, Cool Tool Fool

Weird Web Widgets Weally Work!

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025

Now who the bleep is generating my titles? Oh (spotting a mirror). This was a bit of sideways fun, but come to appreciate a bit of likely Google actually goodness woven into my blog. Hang on, there’s a story. After the last post (I know you all read it!) on the good old MOOOOOOOOC machine […]

Coding, Dog Tricks, Random Musing

Please MOOC the Machine

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on November 14, 2025November 15, 2025

For no good reason have I been fiddling with a silly, old web site that has no bearing or real use beyond my own amusement. Can there be ever more a reason to domain your own web stuff? To do or not do what you wish? I’m not even sure why I even went looking […]

Blogging, Conferencing, Presenting

Out and About Watching the Fine Pines Rewilding

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on November 14, 2025November 14, 2025

This is about it for the blogging wrap-up if it ever does wrap, for the Reclaim Open conference experience- thanks a million trees to Reclaim Hosting for busting the typical conference format out of its rigid box. Indeed a first of firsts, AGAIN. Each day I try to walk our land and take note of […]

Coding, SPLOT

Trying To Stuff That Full HTML into the SPLOT Editor

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on November 13, 2025November 13, 2025

Oh as no one really sings, the SPLOTs Go On. Indeed, I have not touched/updated the SPLOT themes in so long I can’t remember, but strangely and happily enough, for the most part they keep working. Not bad for stuff hatched 2014 onward. I remain mostly the sole contributor to Sadly Robotic Metaphors for AI […]

Conferencing, Doing It Daily, Presenting

Daily Creating and Comflabubobulating #4Life #ReclaimOpen25

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on November 12, 2025November 12, 2025

“What? Aren’t you done blogging about Reclaim Open conference? That was so last week!” Nope I have some on the bag and a few more to come. Nope there’s more, and it’s all about the unpresentation style a bunch of DS106 Daily Create diehards assembled for the Blogathon lunch break on day 1 — LIVE […]

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