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I've been getting into a solo TTRPG called Ironsworn: Starforged. I have a goal of doing more creative writing this year. I wanted it to be at a slower pace than the normal, tight-deadline, NaNoWriMo-style writing that I often attempt.

I don't usually publish my creative writing, but I decided to publish my playthrough of this game as a website, partly for funsies but also to keep me motivated. This isn't great fiction, mind you. It's a game, so the pacing is a bit different than a normal story.

https://starforged.blakewatson.com

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If anyone would know, it would be Fedi peeps!
https://howse.social/@tj/115867891583374473

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I’m a happy Obsidian user but Trilium Notes looks pretty cool, especially if you want a personal wiki or prefer a rich text experience over Markdown. https://triliumnotes.org/

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Bought vitamin D
Received human hair instead
Close, but no cigar

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Happy Insurrection Day to all who celebrate.

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Sometimes I find interesting things on the internet and I DM them to friends or coworkers. I decided that I needed to put them on my website instead, so I added link post functionality to my blog (and feed)!

https://blakewatson.com/links/

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Wishing all my Fediverse peeps a happy new year. https://blakewatson.com/journal/2025-my-year-in-review/

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I've been using this icon for over a year and honestly I need Momo icons for all my apps now.
https://socel.net/@heyheymomo/115690508085071064

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When it comes to website backends for personal projects, I try to use just enough to get the job done. That's historically been PHP and Fat-Free Framework. But now I'm giving Flight PHP a spin.

I've also used Express/ Node and Cloudflare Workers/Hono.

I'm lazy and I don't want a maintenance burden. So I find that PHP is nice most of the time, as it can run pretty much anywhere super easily.

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My D&D character's current XP is 23,456. 😌

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If you are like me and tired of radio Christmas music and want something more chill, let me throw out my go-to recommendation.

https://album.link/s/4NvcTP2P7bGwDz7zIG22oK

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Trying to decide on a project for my holiday time off. Maybe a web-based game?

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Here is a more easily copyable version https://bw.paste.lol/omg.lol-snowfall
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Add snowfall to any webpage with this code:

```
<script defer type="module" src="https://unpkg.com/@zachleat/snow-fall@1.0.1/snow-fall.js"></script>

<script type="module" defer>
const snow = document.createElement('snow-fall');
document.body.prepend(snow)
</script>
```

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The liquid glass design in Preview on macOS is kind of annoying. At certain widths the sidebar overlays the content seemingly arbitrarily just for an effect. If there's any app where you don't want UI arbitrarily covering up your content it's in an app called Preview.

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In Vue 2, what's the best pattern for letting a child component know that some action in the parent component has occurred? Methods I've used are: 1) a child prop that gets changed by the parent, 2) the consumer gets a ref on the child component and manually calls a function, 3) an event bus for pub/sub.

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I need to brush up on my CSS skills. Does anyone have a recommendation for a book, tutorial series, or video course?

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Better late than never! I put a few notes on my blog about my tech talk from October. https://blakewatson.com/journal/i-ranted-about-frontend-build-steps-at-magnoliaconf-2025/

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I don't mind the notch so much on iPhones, but I really can't stand it on MacBooks. Whenever the menu bar is too long and some of the menus appear on the other side of the notch, it just looks so ridiculous. No way Steve Jobs would have approved of this.

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Sometimes I think about how a startup might look at a number of MRR and think it's nothing. Whereas an indie developer could potentially make a living off of that same amount. I think about the 1,000 fans idea. Make something cool. Sell it at a price such that, if your 1,000 true fans purchased it, you can make a living from it.

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