I found this VS Code extension via MDN. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yuichinukiyama.vscode-preview-server
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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/
Abilities https://blakewatson.com/about/
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.
After 5 years of WordPress, I have rebuilt my website using @eleventy! I've been using Eleventy for years now on other projects (including one for NASA) and I'm super stoked to be using it for my personal website.
I did a little writeup about it.
https://blakewatson.com/journal/rebuilding-my-website-with-eleventy/
Safari devtools is not letting me uncheck or modify styles. Anyone run into this before?
I have a chicken and egg problem.
When I publish a blog article I want to include a link to a corresponding Mastodon post. To write the Mastodon post, the article needs to be live. But to publish the blog article, I need the URL to the Mastodon post. But I don’t know the Mastodon post URL until I publish it. Ahhhhh!!
Am I really going to have to deploy my site, post a toot, then turn around and add the link to my site and deploy again? Ugh, there’s got to be a better way.
This is the kind of CSS change I enjoy making. Tiny tweaks no one else will notice.
I’m writing a blog post. Do I call it 11ty or Eleventy?
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Working on a post about my new website rebuild that I launched and didn’t say anything about...
The answer ended up being to use eleventyConfig.addCollection, which is counterintuitive because in my mind I’ve already “added” it.
But anyway, you can pass a callback, get all the posts in the target collection, then sort how you like.
https://www.11ty.dev/docs/collections/#getfilteredbytag(-tagname-)
11ty peeps, what’s the simplest way to sort a particular collection by the file slug? #11ty
It looks like my Rube Goldberg machine for updating my microblog is working. I'm going to write about it at some point.