Microblog – Personal Webpage of Blake Watson https://blakewatson.com The personal webpage of Blake Watson Tue, 19 Sep 2023 17:31:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 167038248 Mastodon post on 09/19/2023 https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-19-2023/ https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-19-2023/#respond Tue, 19 Sep 2023 17:31:23 +0000 https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-19-2023/ I wrote a JavaScript tutorial for improving procedural code with more declarative, functional code.

blakewatson.com/journal/fancy-

]]> https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-19-2023/feed/ 0 1326 Mastodon post on 09/15/2023 https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-15-2023/ https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-15-2023/#respond Fri, 15 Sep 2023 15:22:08 +0000 https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-15-2023/ Some people just want to watch the world burn and type their smileys backward (:

]]> https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-15-2023/feed/ 0 1297 Mastodon post on 09/14/2023 https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-14-2023-2/ https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-14-2023-2/#respond Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:51:26 +0000 https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-14-2023-2/ In the US, our disability support programs impose stringent financial limits. In the case of SSI, participants cannot have more than $2k in assets (cash, checking, savings, etc combined).

That limit was set in the 80s and hasn’t been updated since.

It’s time to fix that.

thearc.org/blog/new-bipartisan

]]> https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-14-2023-2/feed/ 0 1296 Mastodon post on 09/14/2023 https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-14-2023/ https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-14-2023/#respond Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:51:26 +0000 https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-14-2023/ In the US, our disability support programs impose stringent financial limits. In the case of SSI, participants cannot have more than $2k in assets (cash, checking, savings, etc combined).

That limit was set in the 80s and hasn’t been updated since.

It’s time to fix that.

thearc.org/blog/new-bipartisan

]]> https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-14-2023/feed/ 0 1295 Mastodon post on 09/13/2023 https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-13-2023/ https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-13-2023/#respond Wed, 13 Sep 2023 14:44:31 +0000 https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-13-2023/ Software dev projects would be so much more fun if you could finish them.

]]> https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-13-2023/feed/ 0 1294 Mastodon post on 09/12/2023 https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-12-2023-2/ https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-12-2023-2/#respond Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:23:45 +0000 https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-12-2023-2/ Ayyy. Ivory for macOS will now respect custom icons. I’m using this delightful one by @andycarolan!

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]]> https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-12-2023-2/feed/ 0 1293 Mastodon post on 09/12/2023 https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-12-2023/ https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-12-2023/#respond Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:29:57 +0000 https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-12-2023/ Cool PHP things I recently discovered:

Plates – native PHP templates
platesphp.com/

Tapestry – static site generator made with Plates
tapestry.cloud/

More nice little packages
thephpleague.com/

]]> https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-12-2023/feed/ 0 1292 Mastodon post on 09/08/2023 https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-08-2023/ https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-08-2023/#respond Fri, 08 Sep 2023 15:25:02 +0000 https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-08-2023/ ☺️ No I don’t want to update my scanner’s software right now. Yes I’m sure. It’s just like I said yesterday and the day before that and the day before that.

]]> https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-08-2023/feed/ 0 1291 Statuslog 09/08/2023 https://blakewatson.com/journal/statuslog-09-08-2023/ https://blakewatson.com/journal/statuslog-09-08-2023/#respond Fri, 08 Sep 2023 15:25:06 +0000 https://blakewatson.com/journal/statuslog-09-08-2023/ No I don’t want to update my scanner’s software right now. Yes I’m sure. It’s just like I said yesterday and the day before that and the day before that.

]]> https://blakewatson.com/journal/statuslog-09-08-2023/feed/ 0 1290 Mastodon post on 09/06/2023 https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-06-2023/ https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-06-2023/#respond Wed, 06 Sep 2023 16:56:11 +0000 https://blakewatson.com/journal/mastodon-post-on-09-06-2023/
  • Arc browser
    – The new Edge design
    – The new Slack design
    – Craft

    • What do you call this UI design style?

    It’s sort of modular, delineating between the window container and inner containers. Rounded corners everywhere.

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