When I wrote the pitch for my MagnoliaConf talk about skipping out on frontend build tools, I was worried I wouldn't have enough content. Now that I'm in the middle of writing it, I'm realizing I have far, far too much content. I'm gonna have to put some stuff on the chopping block.
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Me: What time is it?
Clock: 4:04pm - not found
My People & Blogs interview is out today!
fr tho probably should write my talk now
https://social.lol/@bw/115294568699593711
MagnoliaConf 2025 is going down October 21-23. This is Mississippi's coolest tech conference. The food will be excellent. The talks will be streaming FOR FREE.
Yours truly is giving a talk about doing frontend without a build step. Use my code SPEAKER10 for 10% off tickets!
Alright here’s my hot take on AI. *hides under desk*
https://blakewatson.com/journal/understanding-not-slop-is-whats-interesting-about-llms/
When you click unsubscribe at the bottom of an email and the resulting page hangs. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Met up with someone from the internet for coffee and she turned out to be a real person (or an android that has achieved AGI)!
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
Sometimes I will come across some pretty wild screenshots that people share of stuff posted on X or Truth Social (obv). But, I have a rule never to believe screenshots. So, I take it with a grain of salt unless I go directly to the source and see it myself. Social posts, among other things, can be easily faked. Just remember that.
Remember when Domino's marketing strategy was, sorry our pizza got terrible, we fixed it? I'm gonna need them to do that again.
OH: The difference between dogs and cats is that dogs don't know about evil.
JavaScribble — Summon swarms of spaghetti code from thin air and hurl them at the target of your choice. You take 1d8 psychic damage per npm module used. The target exceeds the maximum call stack and is destroyed.
Cascading Soul Siphon — Hex your target with a pseudo-class, shifting them -9999px into an alternate dimension.
Purify — Recite the incantations of the Old Ones. You and your target lose all scripts and styles laying bare your unmitigated hypertext.
This melody lives in my head rent-free (alongside a bunch of Super Mario tunes) and I whistle it absentmindedly almost daily.
But when I actually hear it, I have to hold back tears. It’s not like a sad association or anything. It’s just so beautiful I have to cry, man. idk
This has to be a scam, right?
Am I looking at a legit thing? Are you telling me I can send an actual telegram to my elected officials? In 2025?
I tried to go to Bluesky a minute ago and saw an announcement that it's blocked for Mississippi users. https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-22-2025-mississippi-hb1126