Trying to decide on a project for my holiday time off. Maybe a web-based game?
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Microblog
Here is a more easily copyable version https://bw.paste.lol/omg.lol-snowfall
https://social.lol/@bw/115707707248739139
Add snowfall to any webpage with this code:
```
<script defer type="module" src="https://unpkg.com/@zachleat/snow-fall@1.0.1/snow-fall.js"></script>
<script type="module" defer>
const snow = document.createElement('snow-fall');
document.body.prepend(snow)
</script>
```
The liquid glass design in Preview on macOS is kind of annoying. At certain widths the sidebar overlays the content seemingly arbitrarily just for an effect. If there's any app where you don't want UI arbitrarily covering up your content it's in an app called Preview.
In Vue 2, what's the best pattern for letting a child component know that some action in the parent component has occurred? Methods I've used are: 1) a child prop that gets changed by the parent, 2) the consumer gets a ref on the child component and manually calls a function, 3) an event bus for pub/sub.
I need to brush up on my CSS skills. Does anyone have a recommendation for a book, tutorial series, or video course?
Better late than never! I put a few notes on my blog about my tech talk from October. https://blakewatson.com/journal/i-ranted-about-frontend-build-steps-at-magnoliaconf-2025/
I don't mind the notch so much on iPhones, but I really can't stand it on MacBooks. Whenever the menu bar is too long and some of the menus appear on the other side of the notch, it just looks so ridiculous. No way Steve Jobs would have approved of this.
Sometimes I think about how a startup might look at a number of MRR and think it's nothing. Whereas an indie developer could potentially make a living off of that same amount. I think about the 1,000 fans idea. Make something cool. Sell it at a price such that, if your 1,000 true fans purchased it, you can make a living from it.
It's common to hear about people using ChatGPT, Gemini, etc for personal therapy. I'm not here to judge anyone for doing that. However, do yourself a favor, download Ollama and use a *local* AI model. That way you aren't giving your deep, personal secrets to big tech companies.
That moment you realize you need to test something in Edge, but you haven't yet downloaded it on your new, unspoiled machine. 😩
I met someone who was really into cheap ballpoint pens. They had that "dig Bic" energy.
I feel like I’m being gaslighted here. I keep looking at it thinking, I’m not dumb, right? *Says "Where am I?" over and over until it loses all meaning.*
https://social.lol/@bw/115562302021367827
*Bernie voice* I am once again asking if anyone has a recommendation for a quality **light** VS Code theme.
Time flies when you're harvesting XP. #dnd
I spoke at MagnoliaConf 2025 in Jackson, Mississippi about how I'm sick of front-end build tools. My talk is now available on YouTube!
Hi my name is Blake and I often change my coding font when I get bored and want to procrastinate.
*Hi Blake*
I’m using Gintronic atm and I’m kind of into it. It’s a bit spaced out more than most monospaced fonts (which was weird at first), and I love how the capitals feel like small caps. It also has a distinctive curly bracket style which I like in fonts meant for coding.
ATTN omglolers: If you’re writing this November and want a web-based editor, check out my app, https://write.omg.lol
But also, I believe everything I read if it's in a serif font. They can't put it on the internet in a serif font if it isn't true.
https://social.lol/@bw/115464318258817542