I wanted the feeling of an e-ink monitor, and I realized that with the right settings in macOS I could get something close.
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In HTML, how would you go about marking up something like this?
August 2019–Present
I’m not saying the term “user” is always bad, but the old joke goes that only industries that call their patrons “users” are drug dealers and tech.
I’ve found myself searching for other words when it makes sense. Are they reading my article? They’re readers. Or if I need to be generic—they’re visitors. Are they paying me? They’re customers or patrons.
I've made it far enough into my HTML for People tutorial series that I felt comfortable enough to buy the domain name and throw up a landing page.
What’s the simplest service to use for a “notify me when this project launches” landing page?
If you have a version of your resume in HTML, I’d love to see it! For learning/curiosity/inspiration.
I wish I knew how the hell emails containing the word “airdrop” multiple times are getting through all THREE of my spam filters.
I’m working on a beginner HTML tutorial series and I’m just finding out that YouTube embeds won’t work in a non-ssl context like a local web server.
Do I have any good option for getting around this? I’m not gonna make a beginner deal with self-signed certs.
I found this VS Code extension via MDN. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yuichinukiyama.vscode-preview-server
What's the easiest way for a non-developer to run a local webserver **on Windows** for serving an HTML website?
I'm looking for something that is as easy as WorldWideWeb for macOS. https://iconfactory.com/worldwideweb/
Last night I dreamed I was back in high school and the teacher opened the first day of class with “We’re going to be learning web design… and COBOL.”
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I’m so happy about a longstanding bug that was fixed in macOS Accessibility Keyboard, the built-in onscreen keyboard.
The accessibility keyboard has word prediction similar to how an iPhone does. Problem is, it usually crapped out in browser-based editors (probably because of how weird `contenteditable` regions are).
But in the latest version of Sonoma it’s working beautifully! That means I can now easily write in apps like Obsidian and my own https://write.omg.lol.
I keep running into an Eleventy circular reference error but I don’t know why. If anyone is in the Discord, here’s my problem: https://discord.com/channels/741017160297611315/1239618935591141446
The latest version of macOS fixed a longstanding bug in the Accessibility Keyboard that prevented word prediction from working properly in browser-based text-editing environments (I’m assuming it’s something to do with contenteditable regions). Because of that behavior, I was never able to give Obsidian a a proper try—word prediction is a must for me if I’m writing anything more than a sentence or two.
So I’ve installed Obsidian, exported all my Bear notes into a folder in Dropbox, and I’m giving it a shot. A nice benefit of Obsidian operating on a “folder of files” is that I can draft blog posts (like this one) directly in my site’s src folder. Kinda neat.
I’m always looking for good CSS named-colors cheatsheets or references. This one is fun. Please send me ones you know of!
Does anyone know of a good HTML cheatsheet or reference for beginners?
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New blog post about rebuilding my site in Eleventy https://blakewatson.com/journal/rebuilding-my-website-with-eleventy/
