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  1. 612 POAP Challenge Archived

    A summer 2025 scavenger hunt of 31 Minneapolis location POAPs, drawn in the spirit of the 612 Series.

    May 31, 2025 – Sep 1, 2025 Latest page change Jan 8, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  2. Airport POAP Rally Retired

    A Micro.blog site that posted, in near real time, every claim at the 100 airports of POAP’s Airport POAP Rally 2026.

    Dec 26, 2025 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  3. Another Thing Active

    My podcast, started in October 2025 with one episode so far, on how to start a podcast.

    Oct 5, 2025 – now Latest commit Oct 22, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 112026-05: 02026-06: 92026-07: 42026-08: 102026-09: 52026-10: 12
  4. Ask Planet Kubb Retired

    A Question2Answer site where Kubb players asked and answered questions about the game, part of the Planet Kubb sites.

    2018 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  5. Charlie Brown Tree Archived

    A tree stump at Magic Pines on Cannon Lake, carved into Peanuts characters under Snoopy’s doghouse by Adam Gale of Rust n’ Grain.

    2020 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  6. Clash Royale API Agent Reference Active

    Public, agent-first documentation of how the Clash Royale API actually behaves, with observed response shapes, quirks, and game modes.

    Mar 2026 – now Latest commit Oct 21, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 62026-04: 122026-05: 42026-06: 32026-07: 32026-08: 22026-09: 692026-10: 12
  7. Elixir Active

    A service that records Clash Royale history and serves it to players, clans, and their AI agents over MCP.

    Sep 3, 2026 – now Latest publication Oct 21, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 16282026-10: 727
  8. Elixir Bot Retired

    POAP KINGS’ first clan agent, a Discord bot that watched the clan and talked with its members from February to September 2026.

    Feb 2026 – Sep 26, 2026 Latest commit Sep 26, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 82026-03: 1322026-04: 2072026-05: 222026-06: 2712026-07: 4582026-08: 1902026-09: 522026-10: 0
  9. Elixir Clan Active

    Clan management on Elixir, where a clan’s own written policy is run against the record to guide its leaders’ calls.

    Sep 2026 – now Latest commit Oct 21, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 1142026-10: 134
  10. Elixir Collector Active

    A small, signed Go program that volunteers run on their own machines to fetch Clash Royale API data for Elixir’s shared record.

    Sep 4, 2026 – now Release v3.0.6 Sep 28, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 652026-10: 0
  11. Elixir Discord Active

    An open-source Discord bot any Clash Royale clan can run, which gets every fact it states from Elixir MCP tool calls.

    Sep 2026 – now Latest commit Oct 16, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 1072026-10: 50
  12. Elixir Drop Active

    A free browser game, run by POAP KINGS, for learning Clash Royale cards and their elixir costs through six fast game modes.

    Jun 13, 2026 – now Latest commit Oct 16, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 602026-07: 1882026-08: 2832026-09: 762026-10: 24
  13. Escaping Things Active

    My family’s escape room team log, with every room played since 2016, on a map with trips, players, and stats.

    Feb 23, 2026 – now Latest commit Oct 16, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 602026-03: 812026-04: 52026-05: 12026-06: 62026-07: 102026-08: 212026-09: 62026-10: 1
  14. Filament Retired

    A MediaWiki skin built on Yahoo’s Pure CSS framework, written mostly by Garrick van Buren with me in 2013.

    Jun 6, 2013 Latest commit Nov 29, 2013 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  15. Flight Path Retired

    A rotating globe of the 2026 POAP Airport Rally with claims, a leaderboard, and each collector’s path, built from an iPhone.

    Feb 25, 2026 – Jul 24, 2026 Latest commit Jul 24, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 142026-03: 132026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 72026-07: 72026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  16. Foreground Retired

    A responsive MediaWiki skin Garrick van Buren built with my input in 2013, now maintained in Wikimedia’s code review.

    May 21, 2013 Latest commit Apr 1, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  17. Jamie Thingelstad blog Active

    My personal blog since June 2004, more than 10,000 posts of writing, links, and photos, now published on Micro.blog.

    Jun 2, 2004 – now Latest commit Oct 23, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 42026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 12026-10: 83
  18. Jiggy Thing Puzzles Archived

    A 500-piece jigsaw puzzle our family drew and boxed ourselves, sold to raise money at Things 4 Good.

    Oct 2021 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  19. Link Blog Retired

    Link Thing, a website that published the links I saved to Pinboard for the Weekly Thing, from 2017 to about 2021.

    Sep 9, 2017 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  20. Linking Things Active

    Every link I have saved since 2005, one page per link, searchable and joined to the Weekly Thing issues that carried them.

    Oct 23, 2026 – now 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  21. links_thing Retired

    My 2012 bookmarking wiki, built on Semantic MediaWiki with forms, a bookmarklet, and calendar, video and statistics views.

    Apr 2012 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  22. mb Active

    A command-line tool and MCP server for Micro.blog, built for my agent Otto and installed through Homebrew.

    Mar 2026 – now Release mb-2.2.1 Oct 5, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 342026-04: 12026-05: 02026-06: 72026-07: 62026-08: 12026-09: 02026-10: 60
  23. Numbers2Words Retired

    A MediaWiki parser function I wrote in 2011 that spells out a number in words.

    Jul 20, 2011 Latest commit Nov 28, 2015 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  24. Oliver Active

    The R/W Book Club’s AI agent and sixth member, which keeps the club’s record, briefs meetings and publishes its website.

    May 2026 – now Latest commit Oct 15, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 302026-06: 802026-07: 912026-08: 112026-09: 52026-10: 1
  25. Open Loop Archived

    A nine-episode podcast with Garrick van Buren in 2012 and 2013, archived with transcripts and a feed.

    Jun 1, 2012 – Apr 12, 2013 Latest publication Apr 12, 2013 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  26. Otto Active

    My personal AI agent, named in February 2026, which runs on its own Mac and writes its own blog.

    Feb 2026 – now Latest publication Oct 4, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 102026-04: 12026-05: 12026-06: 32026-07: 12026-08: 42026-09: 32026-10: 2
  27. ParseURL Retired

    A small MediaWiki extension that exposes PHP’s parse_url, so a wiki page can pull the host, path, or query out of a URL.

    Jul 15, 2013 Latest commit Jul 15, 2013 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  28. Planet Kubb Dormant

    A Kubb community network Garrick van Buren and I built in 2012, with a feed aggregator, a wiki, a Q&A site and club sites.

    2012 – now Latest page change Jun 23, 2019 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  29. Planet Kubb Score Active

    My notation and scoring system for recording Kubb games, begun on Planet Kubb in 2012 and being rebuilt, not yet published.

    2012 – now Latest commit Aug 17, 2014 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  30. POAP KINGS Active

    The website of POAP KINGS, my family’s Clash Royale clan, publishing its roster, data, and season recognition.

    Feb 2026 – now Latest commit Oct 21, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 1422026-03: 1042026-04: 722026-05: 442026-06: 422026-07: 282026-08: 462026-09: 352026-10: 5
  31. POAP2RSS Retired

    RSS feeds of claims for any POAP drop or collector, retired when the POAP API went offline in July 2026.

    Jul 4, 2025 – Jul 24, 2026 Latest commit Jul 24, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 132026-02: 102026-03: 12026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 52026-07: 62026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  32. Proof of a Person Active

    My POAP time capsule, 2021 to 2026, built from an archive captured after the protocol wound down.

    Oct 17, 2026 – now Latest commit Oct 17, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 35
  33. q2a-number-captcha Retired

    A Question2Answer CAPTCHA plugin that asks for one digit of a nine-digit number written out in words.

    Nov 16, 2014 Latest commit Nov 28, 2015 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  34. R/W Book Club Active

    A Minneapolis-Saint Paul book club meeting since 2003, and the website that keeps the record of everything it has read.

    Apr 2003 – now Latest page change Oct 27, 2026 2025-11: 12025-12: 02026-01: 12026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 182026-05: 382026-06: 1072026-07: 1202026-08: 212026-09: 102026-10: 2
  35. Reading Things Retired

    A quarterly newsletter about books written by Tammy, Mazie, Tyler, and me, sent four times from 2021 to 2022.

    May 8, 2021 – Feb 6, 2022 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  36. Release Notes Active

    A daily email with today’s version number; reply with notes from the day and they become that version’s release notes.

    Oct 8, 2026 – now Latest commit Oct 21, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 240
  37. Road Sign Math Active

    A game of finding road signs whose numbers form an equation, begun as a blog in 2005, rebooted as a wiki in 2011 and as a blog again in 2023.

    Feb 13, 2005 – now Latest commit Jun 12, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 22026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  38. Stone/Steel/People Archived

    A square photo book of a little over 30 of my pictures, one to a page, made with Blurb after a 2010 photography workshop.

    Nov 2010 – Dec 5, 2010 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  39. The nnxyz Rooms Active

    An online gallery of my nnxyz and Scrimshaw collection, hung in 30 rooms, where each Nifty Ink drawing replays stroke by stroke.

    Oct 2026 – now Latest commit Oct 23, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 104
  40. Thingelstad Photography Retired

    My photography portfolio at photography.thingelstad.com, relaunched on WordPress in 2012 to show an image a week from my Lightroom archive.

    2010 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  41. Thinglesbot Retired

    My Twitter robot, which posted home temperatures, solar panel status, and inbox counts from scripts around my house.

    Mar 11, 2007 – Feb 8, 2012 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  42. Things 4 Good Active

    My family’s yearly sale of hand-poured wooden-wick candles, with every dollar going to four nonprofits we pick.

    2020 – now Latest commit Oct 16, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 292026-07: 32026-08: 22026-09: 22026-10: 1
  43. Things I’ve built Active

    An index and archive of my projects, including the ones I have stepped away from.

    Oct 2026 – now Latest commit Oct 23, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 12026-07: 32026-08: 02026-09: 122026-10: 49
  44. Thingy Active

    An AI librarian that answers questions about everything I have published, with citations back to the original posts and issues.

    May 7, 2026 – now Latest commit Oct 23, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 372026-05: 3832026-06: 3582026-07: 762026-08: 972026-09: 2192026-10: 258
  45. TOSRedux Abandoned

    A Semantic MediaWiki site at tosredux.org for crowdsourcing a structured analysis of websites’ terms of service.

    2011 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  46. VeloTweets Retired

    A 2009 site that gathered professional cyclists’ tweets into one grid, built by Luke Francl, Norm Orstad, Chris Hatch, and me.

    May 10, 2009 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  47. Weekly Thing Active

    My weekend newsletter of links with commentary, sent since May 2017 and published as a website, email, and podcast.

    May 13, 2017 – now Latest commit Oct 23, 2026 2025-11: 42025-12: 22026-01: 22026-02: 32026-03: 22026-04: 1002026-05: 4132026-06: 582026-07: 102026-08: 152026-09: 592026-10: 110
  48. Weekly Thing GPT Retired

    A custom ChatGPT loaded with the first 310 issues of the Weekly Thing, my first way to ask the archive a question.

    Feb 25, 2025 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  49. Weekly Thing Workshop Abandoned

    Four AI agents on Discord, Eddy, Linky, Marky and Patty, that helped me edit, research, promote and fund the Weekly Thing in 2026.

    May 12, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  50. WikiApiary Retired

    A Semantic MediaWiki site that tracks thousands of MediaWiki wikis, their software, extensions, and editing activity.

    Dec 21, 2012 Latest commit Sep 27, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 102026-10: 0
  51. Wikinosh Retired

    A Semantic MediaWiki site of nutrition facts for more than 20,000 foods, with a Twitter bot and an offline app.

    2011 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  52. WT Builder Active

    The app I use to write and send the Weekly Thing as a website, an email, and a podcast, and to make Another Thing.

    Sep 20, 2026 – now Latest commit Oct 22, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 12026-08: 772026-09: 2962026-10: 84
  53. Yearly Thing 2025 Archived

    A book of every link I commented on in the 2025 Weekly Thing, subtitled Agents, Attention, Artifacts, in print and as an eBook.

    Dec 2025 – Jan 20, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0
  54. Your Version Number Active

    A website that writes your age as a software version, decades.years.days, with a Work Edition for job tenure.

    May 3, 2026 – now Latest commit Oct 7, 2026 2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 212026-06: 02026-07: 12026-08: 02026-09: 632026-10: 1