Tomorrow I’m gonna start procrastinating for real.
Your freeform digital character sheet for D&D 5e
Six years after launching it, I introduce Minimal Character Sheet and its features.
Personal website of Blake Watson Online since 2005
I’m a software engineer, side-project enthusiast, hobbyist game developer, sometimes writer, and full-time wheelchair user.
Journal
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Damn.
A decade of employment
I celebrate ten years of being employed by looking back at the difficult journey it took to get there.
I’m fascinated by the scale of things in space
I can't get enough universe-size comparison videos. In this post I share some of my favorite visualizations of the massive scale of the universe.
My computer treats me like a computer
Speech-to-text combined with LLMs give me a taste of what assistive technology could be like in the not-too-distant future.
Microblog
I made a thing for D&D peeps! It's been a thing for a while, but I'm just now writing about it after making a bunch of updates.
https://blakewatson.com/journal/your-freeform-digital-character-sheet-for-dd-5e/
I've submitted two talks to MagnoliaConf 2025. One about building a static websites with @11ty and one about webdev without a frontend build step. Anxious to see if I will be selected and if so which talk I'll be doing.