I’m a software engineer, side-project enthusiast, hobbyist game developer, sometimes writer, and full-time wheelchair user.
You ever stop to think who inspired your favorite activity? Or who introduced you to your favorite songs? Who taught you things you still use years later?
Looking back on another year, fighting against the steady march of time.
Alpine is my secret weapon for building interactive UIs with haste and abandon. Perfect for home-cooked apps that need to get done fast.
I introduce my free web book all about HTML and give a behind-the-scenes look from idea to launch.
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.
I'm just noticing that a few days ago, my post about making a variant of Solitaire got a swell of traffic.
These are the funnest solitaire rules I've ever played, I think.
https://blakewatson.com/journal/i-made-a-web-based-version-of-sawayama-solitaire/
I started thinking about the things that I really enjoy today and how I got them from people years ago. So many things that I think of as essential are things I might never have discovered had I not run into the right people.
I decided to do a few shoutouts.
https://blakewatson.com/journal/things-i-got-from-specific-people/
One thing I love about social.lol is that the citizens of this instance are just the nicest people.