What’s up, Internet? The Alchemist dropped his latest project, The Geniune Articulate last Friday and I’ve been listening, almost non stop. It’s a short project, of eight tracks spanning just 22 minutes and finishes with the Bluey influenced single, Seasons Change. The Alchemist … | Continue reading
What’s going on, Internet? It’s been an interesting month starting back at work after being off for four months on parental leave. After three weeks, it’s almost like I never left in the first place. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not… Here’s what I’ve been up too! Bloggi … | Continue reading
What’s going on, Internet? This week me and others across the web noticed the Launch of Social Web Foundation. This is from the camp who’ve developed ActivityPub. ActivityPub is the protocol that enable social media clones like Mastodon, and Pixelfed to operate. Up until now, thi … | Continue reading
What’s up, Internet? In the continued efforts to keep our young family entertained on the weekends we decended upon the Wellington Brick Show 2024 put on by the Wellington Lego User Group. If you think that all we do is attend Lego shows and exhibits, well, we don’t… There’s just … | Continue reading
What’s going on, Internet? Last weekend on the way back from Fiji my family and I spent a couple extra nights in Auckland on the way home. If you have young children you know what it’s like to keep them entertained all day, especially while away from the comfort of home. Luckily … | Continue reading
What’s happening, Internet? I’m writing this on Saturday evening well after Bandcamp Friday has finished. I finally got around to purchasing a bunch of music that’s been sitting in my cart for the past few weeks and was in the process of downloading and transferring to my NAS; I … | Continue reading
What’s happening, Internet? I’m finally back home after two weeks of travelling with the family. I had grand ideas of having kid free time on the beach and sitting down to flesh out a few drafts I had on the go, but no such luck. We had a fantastic seven nights in Fiji in a quiet … | Continue reading
What’s happening, Internet? Jedda posted the other day about the millenial generation being huge on nostalgia, I’m all about certain types of nostalgia and I love being a millenail so I had to jump onboard this one. Even growing up in opposite sides of the world I see similar exp … | Continue reading
What’s happening, Internet? I was re-reading Kenan’s post, An alarmingly concise and very hinged summary of what it was like to build this site from scratch earlier and really enjoyed how helpful he found an old post of mine, Create A Static Site Using 11ty & Deploy to Neocities. … | Continue reading
What’s going on, Internet? I’ve been playing around with Webmentions again and wanted to touch on participating in the IndieWeb. This post is part of the 32-Bit Cafe’s Code Jam #5: Back To School. If you’re like me, you love the interaction of website to website communication and … | Continue reading
What’s going on Internet? And just like that, it’s August. I still don’t think I’ve recovered from WeblogPoMo in May or parental leave is taking up too much of my mental capacity to leave anything in the tank for writting blog posts. But oh well. I’m pretty happy with the Rebuild … | Continue reading
What’s going on, Internet? This one has been bouncing around my head for months now, and I’ve had this draft open for the past three weeks. It’s time to get it out of my head and onto the web. Recently, on our forums, community member Manatee asked, “What does ‘rewilding the inte … | Continue reading
What’s up Internet? The music video for the Eminem’s second single Tobey from his upcoming album The Death Of Slim Shady featuring Big Sean and Babytron just dropped and I’m happy to share that I loved it. Originally a cut track from Janurary’s All Is Yellow album from Cole Benne … | Continue reading
What’s going on Internet? Can you believe it’s July already? It won’t be long until you see Christmas decorations going up in the shops windows. After last month’s WeblogPoMo posting marathon I took a big step back from posting and focused on behind the scenes work on the website … | Continue reading
What’s up Internet? Since moving Flamed Fury to a shared hosting plan I’ve wanted to provide more simple guides that aren’t aimed at platforms like Netlify, Vercel, CloudFlare, or Github. I’ve previously posted about redirects on Neocities which is still valid, but am excited to … | Continue reading
The books I read, playlist I made, and articles I read this Autumn. Hey, thanks for reading this post in your feed reader! Want to chat? Reply by email or add me on XMPP. Check out the posts archive on the website. | Continue reading
What’s happening Internet? I was having a quick scroll through Mastodon and saw a post from Robert Birming asking “What inspires your blogging?” When it comes to writing, I often find myself diving into things going on in life or media that I’ve enjoyed, as seen recently during W … | Continue reading
What’s going on Internet? There’s a lot of Internet discourse recently about AI scraping the web to use all of our words to power their language models to then sell us AI powered products that we never asked for. Flamed Fury is hosted on a shared hosting plan which is Apache base … | Continue reading
What’s going on, Internet? I’m a long-time Eminem fan. While I look forward to and listen to all his music, I’ve not really been hooked on his stuff since Relapse. Hooked means I listen to the album/song on repeat for a couple of weeks, memorise the lyrics, etc. This could be att … | Continue reading
What’s going on Internet? May has come and gone and with it the end of Weblog Posting Month 2024 (WeblogPoMo). I managed to post each of the 31 days in May and stuck to the “media” them I set at the start of the month. Weblog Posting Month allowed me to dial back from my recent p … | Continue reading
What’s going on Internet? Miley Cyrus, a dynamic musical force and should be celebrated for her daring metamorphoses. She takes us on a touching journey through the contrasting narratives of We Can’t Stop, Slide Away, and her recent single Jaded. Each song is a window into differ … | Continue reading
Whats going on Internet. Here’s a quick review of the Miyoo Mini+ for day 30 of #WeblogPoMo2024 I picked up a Miyoo Mini+ for myself after seeing Joel talk about, and link to other people talking about it a couple weeks ago. It arrived within a week which was a surprise as packag … | Continue reading
What’s up Internet? Day 29 of #WeblogPoMo2024, can you feel it? As a millennial in the late 90s, I grew up watching teen movies, dreaming of moving to America to attend college and party. I saw many of these in the theatre and then repeatedly on DVD. My favourite teen movies from … | Continue reading
What’s going on on the Internet? Today is a meta post for day 28 of #WeblogPoMo2024, after today we have three more days of exciting posts to look forward to. Unfortunately, I couldn’t complete what I had planned to post tonight. I should be able to post it tomorrow, barring any … | Continue reading
What’s happening Internet? For day 27 of #WeblogPoMo2024 I want to know if any other millennials read the Lurker Files books back in the mid ninties? The Lurker Files was a series of books written by Scott Ciencin and published by Random House between 1996 and 1997. The first thr … | Continue reading
What’s happening Internet? Day 26 of #WeblogPoMo2024… I’m Wrapping up Atlanta season 4. It’s taken a while for me to get here as I’ve needed to take a break between each season. The show is incredible, surreal and makes you think. I think the best thing about it could be the epis … | Continue reading
What’s going on Internet? I just finished watching The Fall Guy. What a fantasticly fun movie. Ryan Gosling continues to be a favourite and Hannah Waddingham is always great. Hey, thanks for reading this post in your feed reader! Want to chat? Reply by email or add me on XMPP. Ch … | Continue reading
Aye yo Internet, doot doot doot doot. They don’t make them like this anymore. Griselda Records, the original home of Westside Gunn, Conway The Machine, and Benny the Butcher. The original lineup on Griselda Records distinguished themselves with their gritty lyricism, vintage prod … | Continue reading
No new post today. I’m tired. Hey, thanks for reading this post in your feed reader! Want to chat? Reply by email or add me on XMPP. Check out the posts archive on the website. | Continue reading
What’s going on Internet? I figure games fit under my media theme for #WeblogPoMo2024 so here we go. I recently picked up a Miyoo Mini+ after seeing Joel post about them non-stop. I started playing Pokemon Fire Red and remembered all the Pokemon I had sitting on the old 3DS Poke … | Continue reading
What’s going on Internet? Day 21 for #WeblogPoMo2024, 10 days left! I just finished watching Fallout, and damn, I want more! Walton Goggins plays a great anti-hero. Such a good show! Hey, thanks for reading this post in your feed reader! Want to chat? Reply by email or add me on … | Continue reading
What’s up Internet? I can’t believe this is the twentieth post for #WeblogPoMo2024, May is almost over already. Yesterday I spent the afternoon in the kitchen meal prepping while enjoying a couple beers. I had the Sonos Roam speaker on the bench playing music from PlexAmp. I fina … | Continue reading
Challengers was definitely a movie. I enjoyed watching it; it was fun. I enjoyed the slow-motion scenes, especially while the characters stood in serve positions, accompanied by the thumping club music. It made those scenes seem more exciting? That got me a message from my wife d … | Continue reading
What’s going on Internet? For day 18 of #WeblogPoMo2024 I’m jumping back to music to ask a very serious question: Why do you like Nirvana? This came up after a heavy Nirvana listening session this weekend, and my wife commented that she realised that she doesn’t actually like Nir … | Continue reading
What’s happening Internet? It’s day 17 of #WeblogPoMo2024, and I’ve had a hell of a day with the kids, so this isn’t going to be anything amazing. As a devoted X-Men fan, my collection spans from Uncanny X-Men issues 200-300, X-Factor 1-101, to a myriad of randoms across the deca … | Continue reading
What’s going on Internet? As we move past the halfway point of #WeblogPoMo, I figure I should break up the recent TV and Music posts and share some thoughts on some recent comics I’ve enjoyed. I read a lot of comics and haven’t posted much about them here lately. This is an excel … | Continue reading
What’s happening Internet? It’s day 15 of [#WeblogPoMo](/tags/weblogpomo2024] which means we’re halfway through, yay. I just finished the season finale of X-Men '97. What an absolutely fantastic show. I enjoyed how they covered major X-Men stories across the 10 episodes: Trail of … | Continue reading
What’s up Internet? Yesterday I promised I’d switch it up from the past few days of music, so for #WeblogPoMo2024 day 14, I’ve got a TV post for you all. Don’t worry, nothing too exciting or thought-provoking 🤣 I just finished the season finale of BMF’s third season. The … | Continue reading
What’s up Internet? The last few #WeblogPoMo2024 posts have been music focused, so I’ll do one more for day 13 and do something else the next couple of days. I’d like to know what nostalgia music is for you? Songs or albums that weren’t necessarily certified hits or critically ac … | Continue reading
What’s happening Internet? For day 12 of #WeblogPoMo2024, I’m going to share one of the greatest Hip-Hop tracks (and video) to come out of Aotearoa. The early 2000s were huge for local Hip-Hop. Between 1999 and 2008, during Helen Clark’s Labour government, during which she served … | Continue reading
What’s going on Internet? As it’s NZ Music Month, I figured a great post for day 11 of #WeblogPoMo2024 would be to share a favourite local album from last year. Let me introduce you to Better by Sure Boy (sorry, they don’t have a band website yet). Sure Boy, self-proclaimed as “W … | Continue reading
Conductor we have a problem, Conductor we have a problem Con… Yeah, Okay, okay Okay, okay Doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot Argh! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt Ayyo, what’s up Internet? I last wrote about Conway four years ago. The intention was to post more about him and his records b … | Continue reading
What’s going on Internet? As it’s the end of the day and I need to sleep for day 9 of #WeblogPoMo2024 I’m going to dump my Top 50 Artists from 1 Mar 2021 - 9 May 2024. This is my second Last.fm account. My previous one was scrobbling since 2012 but I managed to lose all that data … | Continue reading
What’s going on Internet? It’s been a long day, so for day 8 of WeblogPoMo2024 I’m going to list the shows I want to watch: After The Party: A local drama with rave reviews. Six episodes. I want to sit down and watch them all at once. 3 Body Problem: I smashed through the three a … | Continue reading
What’s going on Internet? For day 7 of WeblogPoMo2024, I want to remember a television show I enjoyed back in the day, Entourage. The show ran from 2004 - 2011 for eight seasons and a feature-length film to wrap it up. Mark Wahlberg served as an executive producer, and the show w … | Continue reading
How’s it going, Internet? For day six of #WeblogPoMo2024, I’m going to write about a TV show I just finished watching: Griselda. Not to be confused with Griselda Records, the record label named after Griselda Blanco. (That is a post for another day.) The miniseries, which has six … | Continue reading
What’s going on Internet? For day 5 of WebLogPoMo2024 I want to chat a bit about a TV series called Halt And Catch Fire. I first posted about this show back in June 2020 after finishing the first season so this is a perfect time to jump back in as part of my media theme for Weblo … | Continue reading
How’s it going Internet? Following yesterday’s post about albums you can sit down and listen to front to back without any skips, I wanted to use day 4 of #WeblogPoMo2024 to share another “perfect” album. My second perfect album is Swimming by Mac Miller. I wasn’t ever a huge Mac … | Continue reading