From c7eceb0055eb024bf60483d7b2ec28259ed0a61d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Kesterson <andrew@aklabs.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:02:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Deploying upstream@e0254228caa7dfbfed6d5e4b071fde55ca37a63e:
 Just Be Yourself ... whoever that is

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 2026/06/30/News-2026-Week-2/index.html |  2 +-
 about/index.html                       |  2 +-
 atom.xml                               | 44 +++++++++++++-------------
 index.html                             |  2 +-
 now/index.html                         |  2 +-
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diff --git a/2026/06/30/Be-Yourself/index.html b/2026/06/30/Be-Yourself/index.html
index 1e36c86..0c4478d 100644
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+++ b/2026/06/30/Be-Yourself/index.html
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@
     
     
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@@ -503,6 +503,7 @@
 <li>Why do I do it?</li>
 <li>What have I chosen, what have I inherited, and what am I unknowingly assimilating?</li>
 </ul>
+<p>James obviously had some idea of who I was, and he believed in it enough to tell me to trust his memory to be carried on the wind of story, and to focus on being myself. He used to say, “You have no idea how proud I am that we are brothers”. I still don’t understand why, but, I’m doing my best to live up to that praise and honor by being the best version of myself I can be. I am doing my best to discover my verse, and to add it to the chorus with his, in my own voice.</p>
 <p>Bruce Lee said that, to be a Martial Artist meant “honestly expressing yourself”. He also said that the essence of Jeet Kune Do was to “absorb that which is useful; discard that which is not; add what is uniquely your own”. It’s up to you to figure out what is uniquely your own, and boldly express it.</p>
 <blockquote>
 Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,
diff --git a/2026/06/30/News-2026-Week-2/index.html b/2026/06/30/News-2026-Week-2/index.html
index 6a3f5a2..f43ece5 100644
--- a/2026/06/30/News-2026-Week-2/index.html
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@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@
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-    <time datetime="2026-06-30T19:54:01.295Z">
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diff --git a/about/index.html b/about/index.html
index 5626569..e370160 100644
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@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@
     </h1>
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-    <time datetime="2026-06-30T19:54:01.297Z">
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diff --git a/atom.xml b/atom.xml
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
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   <link href="https://aklabs.net/"/>
-  <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.295Z</updated>
+  <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.937Z</updated>
   <id>https://aklabs.net/</id>
   
   <author>
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
     <title>News-2026-Week-2</title>
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/06/30/News-2026-Week-2/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/06/30/News-2026-Week-2/</id>
-    <published>2026-06-30T19:54:01.295Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.295Z</updated>
+    <published>2026-06-30T19:59:55.937Z</published>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.937Z</updated>
     
     
     <summary type="html">Here are my thoughts on news across the internet this week. We touch on rent denialism, collapsing job markets, corporate productivity theater, and the many ways AI is being oversold, misused, or shoved where it doesn’t belong. Along the way I rant about enshittification, ownership (of code, hardware, and ideas), bad APIs, worse management, the slow death of the old internet, and why UNIX got it right decades ago. It’s part news roundup, part cultural autopsy, part theological and philosophical musing — ending, as usual, with a reminder to ignore the noise, give your attention to what you love, and keep your eyes on God and the horizon. It&#39;s worth what you paid for it.</summary>
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/06/30/Be-Yourself/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/06/30/Be-Yourself/</id>
     <published>2026-06-30T12:49:26.000Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.293Z</updated>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.936Z</updated>
     
     
       
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/06/30/You-Cant-Go-Home-Again/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/06/30/You-Cant-Go-Home-Again/</id>
     <published>2026-06-30T06:54:00.000Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.297Z</updated>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.939Z</updated>
     
     
     <summary type="html">Musing on the meaning of home and the pain of trying to go home again</summary>
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/06/27/Devlog-20260627/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/06/27/Devlog-20260627/</id>
     <published>2026-06-27T07:45:42.000Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.294Z</updated>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.937Z</updated>
     
     
     <summary type="html">Development log entry for the week ending 27 June 2026. Improvements to libakerror logging, libakstdlib gets linked list and binary tree implementations, and I&#39;m banging my head against libakgl to get binary space partitioning implemented correctly, as well as documentation improvements to all of these libraries.</summary>
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/06/23/News-2026-Week-26/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/06/23/News-2026-Week-26/</id>
     <published>2026-06-23T22:21:13.000Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.295Z</updated>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.937Z</updated>
     
     
     <summary type="html">Here are my takes on the news for this week. It&#39;s worth what you paid for it. Compromised accounts pushing AI-generated code into Fedora, AI lawyers winning real cases, AI replacing HR, autonomous weapons, insecure AI-written software, and the growing tension between centralized AI power and the need for affordable local compute. Alongside that, I lament how technology is being hollowed out by regulation, AI slop, and corporate control, while celebrating the people fighting back through self-hosting, small efficient software, open communities, and old hardware given new life. I celebrate humanity through reflections on online communities, strange internet hobbies, real bloggers, bedtime procrastination, and the simple joy of finding other genuine humans still making things on the web.</summary>
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/06/18/Devlog-20260618/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/06/18/Devlog-20260618/</id>
     <published>2026-06-18T16:47:16.000Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.294Z</updated>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.937Z</updated>
     
     
     <summary type="html">Devlog entry for 18 June 2026. More ESP32 projects, including a complete Snake game.</summary>
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/06/08/Carrying-That-Weight/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/06/08/Carrying-That-Weight/</id>
     <published>2026-06-08T15:32:23.000Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.294Z</updated>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.936Z</updated>
     
     
     <summary type="html">Musings on what it&#39;s like to carry around your sin, and the difficulty of giving it up to God</summary>
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/06/08/Devlog-20260608/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/06/08/Devlog-20260608/</id>
     <published>2026-06-08T09:27:12.000Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.294Z</updated>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.936Z</updated>
     
     
     <summary type="html">Devlog entry. More ESP32 projects, this time focusing on analog to digital converters, touch sensors, photoresistors, and a demo project with a joystick and WS2821 featuring my own breadboard design and no tutorial code.</summary>
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/05/30/Devlog-20260530/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/05/30/Devlog-20260530/</id>
     <published>2026-05-30T10:05:47.000Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.294Z</updated>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.936Z</updated>
     
     
     <summary type="html">updates to my C stdlib library, several libakgl improvements (pluggable physics and rendering backends), and ESP32 projects (fun with Arduino IDE, transistors, oscilloscopes and logic analyzers!)</summary>
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/05/15/Devlog-20260518/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/05/15/Devlog-20260518/</id>
     <published>2026-05-15T22:04:50.000Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.294Z</updated>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.936Z</updated>
     
     
     <summary type="html">Development log entry. Goodbye GitHub, C error handling library improvements, a new C standard library wrapper, and a new C SDL3 game library I&#39;m playing with</summary>
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/02/23/Why-Firefighting/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/02/23/Why-Firefighting/</id>
     <published>2026-02-23T22:40:28.000Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.297Z</updated>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.939Z</updated>
     
     
       
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/02/09/News-2026-Week-5/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/02/09/News-2026-Week-5/</id>
     <published>2026-02-09T06:34:21.000Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.295Z</updated>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.938Z</updated>
     
     
     <summary type="html">Here are my (limited) thoughts on the news for the 5th week of 2026. It&#39;s worth what you paid for it.</summary>
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/30/News-2026-Week-4/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/30/News-2026-Week-4/</id>
     <published>2026-01-30T20:39:17.000Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.295Z</updated>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.938Z</updated>
     
     
     <summary type="html">Here are my takes on the news for this week. It&#39;s worth what you paid for it.</summary>
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/25/Two-kinds-of-programmers/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/25/Two-kinds-of-programmers/</id>
     <published>2026-01-25T08:57:43.000Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.296Z</updated>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.939Z</updated>
     
     
     <summary type="html">Musings on the rift that the &quot;AI Revolution&quot; is exposing in the field of computer programming, that being a divide between programmers who view it as an artform, and who enjoy the act of programming itself, and those who actually do not enjoy programming, and just want to get around it faster to be more productive.</summary>
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/23/News-2026-Week-3/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/23/News-2026-Week-3/</id>
     <published>2026-01-23T07:00:51.000Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.295Z</updated>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.938Z</updated>
     
     
     <summary type="html">Here&#39;s my thoughts on news across the internet this week. It&#39;s worth what you paid for it.</summary>
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/19/This-Old-Tool-cmdarg/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/19/This-Old-Tool-cmdarg/</id>
     <published>2026-01-19T14:37:26.000Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.296Z</updated>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.939Z</updated>
     
     
       
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/10/libakerror/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/10/libakerror/</id>
     <published>2026-01-10T22:11:25.000Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.297Z</updated>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.939Z</updated>
     
     
     <summary type="html">A C library I wrote for exception style error handling in C code</summary>
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/08/News-2026-Week-1/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/08/News-2026-Week-1/</id>
     <published>2026-01-08T22:11:25.000Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.295Z</updated>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.937Z</updated>
     
     
     <summary type="html">Musings on android source code releases, the return of the keyboard PC, some AI workflows are just event driven architecture, sociopaths in civil service, what happens when AI interfaces replace proper APIs, and comprehensible interfaces to quantum computing chips</summary>
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/06/Smart-LEGO/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/06/Smart-LEGO/</id>
     <published>2026-01-06T22:11:25.000Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.296Z</updated>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.938Z</updated>
     
     
       
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@
     <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/04/Single-Pane-of-Glass/"/>
     <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/04/Single-Pane-of-Glass/</id>
     <published>2026-01-04T22:11:25.000Z</published>
-    <updated>2026-06-30T19:54:01.296Z</updated>
+    <updated>2026-06-30T19:59:55.938Z</updated>
     
     
     <summary type="html">There are too many ways of doing the same shit across too many different mediums and platforms</summary>
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