Actually, there is a point. Don’t forget that there was a time you were a beginner. When people earnestly ask for your help, remember the people who helped you and pay it forward.
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When I was working at Mad Genius, a local ad agency, I was a decent “interactive designer” but something I struggled with was asynchronous JavaScript. I just didn't understand it at all.
One of the senior devs helped me one day, stood at my desk for like 15 minutes and explained jQuery’s deferred objects to me in a way that finally made it click (of course that translated to Promises easily enough).
There’s not a point to this story. I just feel appreciative.
BREAKING: Executive orders have momentarily ceased as White House "ran out of that fancy paper"
A spokesperson said an intern failed to fill up on supplies after being tasked to retrieve “nice-but-cheap” card stock from Office Depot.
Version 3 of my minimal new tab page, A Fine Start, is out now! I did a little writeup of what's new, what's coming, some development notes.
https://blakewatson.com/journal/introducing-a-fine-start-version-3/
BREAKING: Latest executive order bans use of word "United" in names of other countries
First open this in a tab:
Press play, then open this in another tab:
Press play.
Now you are free…
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I’m on a Milk Carton Kids kick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp0xjVzmKxY
BREAKING: Microsoft to become Macrohard to comply with executive order
BREAKING: Latest COVID strain given 90 days to "stop mutating" by recent executive order
BREAKING: Executive order renames Mexico "the basement." With Canada fearing they’re next, a government spokesperson revealed back-channel meetings have taken place to "get out in front of this thing." "We're more than a dusty attic and we’re looking for a naming compromise that isn’t harmful to Canadians."
BREAKING: Trump's hands considered large "but in a normal way" says latest executive order
BREAKING: Executive order creates new agency to prevent Andromeda’s stars from migrating to Milky Way
“They’re literally hurtling straight for us,” a White House spokesperson said.
There’s a blog post simmering here.
Things like Apple’s Voice Control and hands-free input tools like Talon are cool…
But I’m increasingly frustrated that I have to act like a computer to get my wishes across. I don’t enjoy speaking in cryptic, pre-defined utterances. I want to talk like a person. The computer needs to accommodate me not the other way around.
I don’t know if this is something AI/LLMs can help with or not, but idk. It’s like one day I just woke up and thought, I’m tried of *being* a computer to use one.
BREAKING: Earth instructed to stop warming in latest executive order. "It’s up to Mother Nature to do her part," the president said. "It’s out of our hands."
I was just trying to dictate the words "personal care assistant" but the output was "personal terror assistant,” which now I am super curious about.
I had a little bit of a bumpy start rolling out A Fine Start v3 to Firefox peeps (my first submission still had development URLs 😬). But after frantically squashing bugs and submitting several versions back-to-back, I think it’s in good shape.
Firefox was my testing group. So now I’ve submitted Chrome and Edge. Should be rolling out sometime soon!
And there’s also a hosted version here: https://afinestart.me/bookmarks
BREAKING: Executive order instructs Treasury Department to make bills “crispier”
BREAKING: New executive order calls for training LLM to produce executive orders autonomously