scientists: the universe is 14 billion years old
young earth creationists: the universe is 6000 years old
computers: the universe is 54 years old
Microblog
I also have one that simply says:
> The frontend is the fun end
And I am now realizing that I cannot run with that title lmao
I have a note with a bunch of ideas for articles on my website. One of them is:
> Make something with CodePen projects and talk about it
Jotted this down a while ago but haven't had any ideas yet.
This is a story all about how @mhilltopple and I built our own private Discord knockoff.
https://blakewatson.com/journal/building-our-own-private-discord-knockoff/
What do you call an in-joke thatâs more of a reference than a joke? For example, this sentence:
No one outside the group understood why the cat was named Foobar because his name was a [word that means inside reference].
Or maybe âinside referenceâ is right. I donât know.
Vivaldi keeps crashing on me so Iâm back to my Chrome/Firefox setup via Choosy as discussed here.
https://blakewatson.com/journal/multi-browser-workflow-on-macos-with-choosy/
When I die, my family is going to have a tough time sorting through my digital empire. What can I do to make it easier? What should I reasonably wish to be done?
Just wondering if anyone has tips for documenting stuff.
In honor of the Macâs 40th birthday, hereâs my 2016 post about my first decade of using a Mac. https://blakewatson.com/journal/a-decade-of-mac/
If youâre using Arc browser mainly for the vertical tabs, try Vivaldi with vertical tabs. Similar experience plus doesnât break ânormal browser things.â
Everyone says they're a good driver, so someone is clearly lying (not you though, of course).
What is your go-to focus music?
App idea: canishrug.com. A site where you can find out if any given text-handling app can accurately display the following:
ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ
I ended up going with highlight.js because it had more theme choices.
Whatâs the easiest to implement JS syntax highlighting plugin these days?
I really started to enjoy Workspaces and the vertical tabs in Arc (and the browser UI design) but Arcâs aggressive tab sleeping and unreliable tab syncing finally became too annoying.
I was losing page state because of tab sleeping and the tab sync process usually wiped away about half of my tabs.
Now Iâm trying Vivaldi, which has Workspaces, vertical tabs, and isnât as aggressive about sleeping tabs. It also doesnât force me to sync tabs.
Everyoneâs an edge case.
I read a bunch of âHTML web componentsâ posts when they were buzzing around a few months ago. But I think this one I just read is the aha moment for me.
This guy should start a CSS blog or something.
Got my year in review published. TL;DR:
- Got a new wheelchair
- Spoke at a conference
- Made a handful of new web apps
- Joined Mastodon
- Blogged every month
- Read 5 books
- Made a game
Happy year-end Last.fm report to those who celebrate.
2023 was my first year to use Last.fm since like 2008 or something. Itâs been fun to see all the different stats. And it gives my brain warm fuzzies that they wait until the actual end of the year to generate the report.