Gloomy weather. Time to play some Death Cab and feel sad.
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I shut down the blog but I maintain an archive of all the postsāgoing as far as to set up redirects of all the original URLs.
Unfortunately, that didnāt stop it from losing SEO juice. So he rarely gets credit for his accomplishment.
Because of that I like to give it the occasional shoutout.
Back in 2012 my brother, in a pee-holding-induced moment of inspiration, conjured up the concept of āpee math.ā He published the seminal work, Pee Math, on my now-defunct disability blog, I Hate Stairs.
The term took hold in online communities and its usage made it all the way to the New York Times!
Pee Math: https://blakewatson.com/ihs/pee-math/
Usage in NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/health/for-millions-life-without-medicaid-services-is-no-option.html
The thing that scares me about passkeys is that they seem to rely on devices with biometric security, which are difficult for me to use (because I canāt handle a phone).
Related: how long until FaceID on a Mac?
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It was a random impulse buy on the then-brand-new iTunes Store. Maybe itās because Iāve been listening to it for nearly 20 years now, I don't know. But I've really come to adore the album Mouthfuls by Fruit Bats. https://open.spotify.com/album/1Wx4ud28ypU7HAWuOHkmQ2?si=O5dNLd_1R52GaRFr0zmx2Q
I love it when someone makes a little webpage that does One Thing Wellā¢. Todayās example, this dead simple tool that removes duplicates from a list of lines. https://dedupelist.com/
It looks like I am going to be speaking at MagnoliaJS 2023! I'm going to be talking about making stuff just for yourself (and friends and family). Here is a small taste for now. https://blakewatson.com/journal/the-joys-of-home-cooked-apps/
Just watched @sophieās talk and it is awesome and you should watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZUqa-lTbnU
Thanks @anniegreens for sharing it!
I made a solitaire game using PixiJS and Anime: https://www.watsonbrosgames.com/solitaire/
@chriscoyier Just wanted to say I appreciate the big olā scrollbar on your site! What a legend.
Wish Firefox made big olā scrollbars possible. Ah well.
One of the problems I have hiring caregivers is that I get a lot of applications with almost no info on them. I wonder if itās ppl who need to apply in order to keep getting unemployment.
I understand, to an extent, but it sucks because Iām using PPC Indeed ads so I have to pay for their click even tho they donāt really want the job.
Iām just an individual. So I donāt have a big ad budget.
My theory could be wrong but I *am* certain some people apply who donāt want the job. Just not sure why.
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Hiring caregivers for me and my brother. Itās tough, but Iām proud of the lil PHP app we made for receiving and processing applications.
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My whole day was tanked with a whack-a-mole-style onslaught of Docker and NPM errors. Finally got my environment running again but, man, my brain was fried afterward.
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Love this track. The Girl Who Stole My Tamagotchi by Hot Sugar https://open.spotify.com/track/5aJph9adNgkyW6vFn66ils?si=2953babef0284a24
Testing out iA Writer for my notes. I had been using Craft, which is pretty nice, but a release a few weeks ago broke the interactivity of the scrollbar, which, unfortunately, is an a11y showstopper for me.
Iāve been using iA Writer for years for writing, but never for my notes collection. So far, so good!
I might return to Craft if they fix this issue soon, tho. Great team over there doing cool stuff.
(Yes I know about Obsidian and no I canāt use it either because of a11y reasons.)
For literally no reason The Holliesā Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress popped in my head and made itself at home.
How do web-based desktop apps (eg, Slack, Discord) perform compared to fully native desktop apps in terms of screen readers?
Did you hear the bardās new ditty about killing that undead wizard?
āI got 99 problems but a lich aināt one.ā