Personal website of Blake Watson Online since 2005

Pixel art illustration of a white man with brown hair wearing a gray shirt. A wheelchair headrest is visible in the background.

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

Journal

blakewatson.com turns 20

I bought this domain as a college student using a friend’s credit card. Twenty years later, it’s one of the best decisions I've ever made.

40

Damn.

A decade of employment

I celebrate ten years of being employed by looking back at the difficult journey it took to get there.

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Microblog

Sometimes I think about how we place mental models on top of reality. And after a while, we think the models *are* the reality. But they aren’t. They're not real.

I find myself disgusted with all the glorification of killing as a means of progress over the last few weeks.

I’ll be speaking at MagnoliaConf in Jackson, MS in October. My talk, "No build tool? No problem!" is all about skipping frontend build steps and instead using the cool features supported by modern browsers.

You can get 10% off tickets with my code: SPEAKER10

2025.magnoliaconf.com/

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