Whisper transcribed “monospaced” as “mono-based” and I’m not even mad.
Microblog
Trump: hello yes, there seems to be something wrong with my economy
IT support: try turning it off and turning back on
Trump: ok done
You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.
Is there a menu bar app for mac that will yell at me if I’m suddenly burning through my battery life?
Do more. Write less.
I’m coming up on ten years of being employed full-time (May 4, Star Wars day). I'll do a blog post on that day, but it’s been quite a ride. I’m lucky to have been born at a time when (and a place where) there was enough technology available to make working with spinal muscular atrophy possible. And I'm fortunate enough to have had help and support from so many people.
I'll have a lot more to say about it come Justin Timberlake's favorite month, but I wanted to put something out there now. (3/3)
Toward the end I wrote:
> I make websites. And not having a job right now isn’t going to take that away from me. I still have my dreams. One day, something big is going to happen. I’ll land my dream job. Or I’ll become a successful freelancer. And even if neither of those things happen, I’ll at least keep volunteering for charity, working on personal projects, and contributing some of my creations to the world.
I think I wrote it to *will* myself to believe it—not because I already did. (2/3)
In 2011 I was on year 2 of being unemployed out of college (it would go on to be 6 years). When a company ghosted me after a promising interview, I was pretty down. Some things happened which jolted me out of the gloom. I took to my (now archived) blog to write about it. I'm a little bleary-eyed reading it now. I'm glad 2011 me didn't give up. He definitely wanted to many times. (1/3)
https://blakewatson.com/ihs/we-still-have-our-dreams/index.html
My brother tried his hand at blogging in Spanish (with an English translation).
https://www.mattwatson.org/blog/20250330-palabras-y-personas/
I hate it when I check the blame on some questionable code and git is like “You, 4 days ago.”
The lights flicker whenever I turn my desktop space heater on. That's fine, right?
Losing You is an existential narrative short film storytelling slideshow kind of a thing. I didn’t know what I was getting into when I hit play (okay I had some idea because I’ve watched exurb1a’s videos before). But the story just kind of started, and I sploshed along for the ride.
BREAKING: New executive order instructs federal agencies to "make good deals"
I’m getting worried about my ability to physically use a mouse. I use some cool voice control tools but they make me speak like a computer. I’m increasingly tired of computers not “getting me.”
https://blakewatson.com/journal/my-computer-treats-me-like-a-computer/
Whenever I'm using a reactive JavaScript library and my code doesn't react like I think it should, I get irrationally angry and I'm all like, USE A REACTIVE LIBRARY THEY SAID. IT REACTS TO YOUR CHANGES THEY SAID.
Me: Can you sync this folder between my computers?
Dropbox: Here’s your free AI calendar
I add a channel called STUDY DREAM to synthwave.live. I’m loving the emotional, cinematic feel of these.
I'm trying to pick back up on my goal from last fall to learn C# and (after that) .NET Core. I also want to see what it's like to build interactive frontend UI with HTMX.
As an experimental project I'm thinking of doing a multiplayer Yahtzee clone where all of the game state is tracked on the server. Fairly boring, but I've programmed this stupid game about four times now in my life so it would be a nice, comfy project for learning other stuff.
BREAKING: Executive order instructs all federal employees to refer to the president as “Real Donald Trump” with optional initial, "J"
A anonymous White House staffer said the “J” is not optional but merely a test of loyalty.
BREAKING: New executive order clarifies that previous executive orders are subject to change
“Just check the president’s Truth Social account for the latest,” a spokesperson said. “We can’t keep up.”