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.
Microblog
@ttscoff@nojack.easydns.ca get out of head sir
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 thatās 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 āinside referenceā is right. I donāt know.
Vivaldi keeps crashing on me so Iām 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 Macās 40th birthday, hereās my 2016 post about my first decade of using a Mac. https://blakewatson.com/journal/a-decade-of-mac/
If youāre using Arc browser mainly for the vertical tabs, try Vivaldi with vertical tabs. Similar experience plus doesnāt break ānormal browser things.ā
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:
ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
I ended up going with highlight.js because it had more theme choices.
Whatās 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 Arcās 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 Iām trying Vivaldi, which has Workspaces, vertical tabs, and isnāt as aggressive about sleeping tabs. It also doesnāt force me to sync tabs.
Everyoneās an edge case.
I read a bunch of āHTML web componentsā 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. Itās 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.
Reminder that Iām offering 50% off new annual subs to A Fine Start Premium through January 12.
A Fine Start is my new tab page browser extension. It transforms your new tab page into a minimalist list of links.
Itās free! You only pay if you want the link syncing service.
