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

Things I miss

Let’s be sad together for a moment, and then get back to our regularly-scheduled programming.

2023: my year in review

Looking over 2023. I shattered some goals and failed miserably on others. Here’s to a happy 2024!

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Microblog

I have a chicken and egg problem.

When I publish a blog article I want to include a link to a corresponding Mastodon post. To write the Mastodon post, the article needs to be live. But to publish the blog article, I need the URL to the Mastodon post. But I don’t know the Mastodon post URL until I publish it. Ahhhhh!!

Am I really going to have to deploy my site, post a toot, then turn around and add the link to my site and deploy again? Ugh, there’s got to be a better way.

This is the kind of CSS change I enjoy making. Tiny tweaks no one else will notice.

I’m writing a blog post. Do I call it 11ty or Eleventy?

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