Personal website of Blake Watson Online since 2005

Minimal color illustration of a white man with brown hair, headphones, and wearing a red shirt emblazoned with a ringed planet silhouette.

I’m a software engineer, side-project enthusiast, hobbyist game developer, sometimes writer, and full-time wheelchair user.

Journal

2024: my year in review

Looking back on another year, fighting against the steady march of time.

Alpine.js for home-cooked apps

Alpine is my secret weapon for building interactive UIs with haste and abandon. Perfect for home-cooked apps that need to get done fast.

The making of HTML for People

I introduce my free web book all about HTML and give a behind-the-scenes look from idea to launch.

Where I’m at with notetaking apps

I switch notetaking apps constantly and I’m trying to stop doing that. Here’s my compromise—I'm allowed any app that handles a folder of files.

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Microblog

Does anyone else sometimes get the feeling that a person in a TV show or movie is somehow AI generated even though you know they aren’t?

What I mean is, ever since seeing a few Sora clips, sometimes I can be watching a person talking in a show or movie where they are clearly using actors and just start getting the feeling that they are AI generated. Almost like I'm catching fake micro expressions, uncanny facial movements, or something. It's hard to explain.

Does anyone remember the third-party Twitter client, DestroyTwitter?

I used to love that little thing. It was super themeable, and I remember getting all kinds of wild ones like Dr. Pepper, where the entire UI was different shades of maroon.

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