An important event happened in 2016 that changed the trajectory of the world forever and no one saw it coming. I think we all know what I’m referring to.
That’s right, the album, Atlas, by FM-84 was released.
Microblog
scientists: the universe is 14 billion years old
young earth creationists: the universe is 6000 years old
computers: the universe is 54 years old
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 that’s 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 “inside reference” is right. I don’t know.
Vivaldi keeps crashing on me so I’m 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 Mac’s 40th birthday, here’s my 2016 post about my first decade of using a Mac. https://blakewatson.com/journal/a-decade-of-mac/
If you’re using Arc browser mainly for the vertical tabs, try Vivaldi with vertical tabs. Similar experience plus doesn’t break “normal browser things.”
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:
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I ended up going with highlight.js because it had more theme choices.
What’s 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 Arc’s 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 I’m trying Vivaldi, which has Workspaces, vertical tabs, and isn’t as aggressive about sleeping tabs. It also doesn’t force me to sync tabs.
Everyone’s an edge case.
I read a bunch of “HTML web components” 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