Working to the tunes on Hard Candy by Counting Crows.
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One thing that interested me during the 4-day power outage was this book, Top 10 Games You Can Play In Your Head, By Yourself.
I’ve only managed to play the exercise described in the introduction. But this concept and the author is fascinating.
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I’m back after a four-day power outage. Being a disabled web developer, a multi-day power outage is existential-crisis-inducing. My whole life's work and all of my skills and abilities suddenly gone and meaningless. When the power came back, it was like waking up from a bad dream. Did those four days actually happen?
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Albums I've enjoyed today:
MORE D4TA by Moderat Depression Cherry by Beach House Lost On You by LP
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I whistle at my desk a lot. I’m not a great whistler but I really enjoy it. Sometimes it’s a melody. Sometimes it’s a harmony. Sometimes it’s just whatever my brain decides to procedurally generate.
Reason #112 that I won't be working on location any time soon if I can help it.
Did Apple out-Meta Meta with the Vision Pro?
Reddit CEO’s warning to employees not to wear Reddit gear for their own safety seems like a sneaky way to make it sound like people are mad at Reddit when they’re actually mad at just him/management.
Playing around with a new homepage design with my stylish new avatar from @andycarolan!
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Adding search to my personal site. Like many folks on social.lol, working on my website is one of my most favorite things to be doing.
“Therefore, if the Moon were the diameter of an average grain of sand, the diameter of the Earth would be approximately 3,474,000,000 kilometers.”
— ChatGPT
Removed Twitter from my profile links. RIP
That tagline is such a huge undersell. But I get that you can’t list everything.
Oh cool, I just discovered that 8 people have listed me as having referred them to https://omg.lol.
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Screwing around with Docker all afternoon instead of doing the actual work I need to do. Hate Docker. I’m sure it’s great but, man.
I stopped enjoying banking when they stopped giving me free suckers in the drive-thru.
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Spoke at a web dev meetup Wednesday night about “home-cooked” apps. It went great! iA Presenter is a nice tool. https://blakewatson.com/home-cooked/