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/
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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
Happy year-end Last.fm report to those who celebrate.
2023 was my first year to use Last.fm since like 2008 or something. It’s 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 I’m 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.
It’s free! You only pay if you want the link syncing service.
Rather than use any number of available chat apps, @mhilltopple and I have been building our own private Discord knock-off during our holiday time off.
One of the first things we did was reinstate the original Discord typeface, Whitney.
JavaScript console: missing ) after argument list
Me: so you are telling me you know what I did wrong and you know how to fix it but you decided to stop execution and yell at me instead
I have this fantasy where I live in this small village town where everyone is friendly and takes care of each other and my day job is the village web designer and one of my responsibilities is the local news website but it’s just stuff like Bob’s Donuts is experimenting with a new flavor this week.
Lilac Wine by Jeff Buckley #NowPlaying
Remember when Discord’s in-app typeface was Whitney? ❤️ https://www.typography.com/fonts/whitney/overview
I have a file I’m working on named chat.php and I can’t stop calling it chatgpt by accident.
@lasermatts Your RPG Discord bot looks pretty neat!