Furiously writing HTML for People.
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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.
Whatās the simplest service to use for a ānotify me when this project launchesā landing page?
If you have a version of your resume in HTML, Iād love to see it! For learning/curiosity/inspiration.
I wish I knew how the hell emails containing the word āairdropā multiple times are getting through all THREE of my spam filters.
Iām working on a beginner HTML tutorial series and Iām just finding out that YouTube embeds wonāt work in a non-ssl context like a local web server.
Do I have any good option for getting around this? Iām 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 āWeāre going to be learning web designā¦ and COBOL.ā
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Iām 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 itās 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 donāt know why. If anyone is in the Discord, hereās 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 (Iām assuming itās something to do with contenteditable regions). Because of that behavior, I was never able to give Obsidian a a proper tryāword prediction is a must for me if Iām writing anything more than a sentence or two.
So Iāve installed Obsidian, exported all my Bear notes into a folder in Dropbox, and Iām giving it a shot. A nice benefit of Obsidian operating on a āfolder of filesā is that I can draft blog posts (like this one) directly in my siteās src folder. Kinda neat.
Iām 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 Onesāyou 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 donāt 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, thereās got to be a better way.