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Things I miss https://blakewatson.com/journal/things-i-miss/

It looks like IFTTT quietly made webhooks a pro feature.

Someone found my old wheelchair.

Want to build web apps for NASA? My team is hiring a backend engineer. Mostly PostgreSQL. US-only, remote. #FediHire

https://mricompany.applicantpro.com/jobs/3237126

Elon Musk doesn’t know it, but he created the perfect slogan for HTML when he said TELL IT TO EARTH.

Anyone know how I could get a Windows VM on a cloud somewhere that I can use as a virtual desktop?

I see Azure Virtual Desktop but it’s so heavily targeted at businesses that I can’t figure out what I need as just an individual.

I used to hate rewatching TV series, but then I lived a long time.

Team “…or log in with email”

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 that’s 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 “inside reference” is right. I don’t know.

Vivaldi keeps crashing on me so I’m 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 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/

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)/¯

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.