Blake’s microblog

Sometimes I will come across some pretty wild screenshots that people share of stuff posted on X or Truth Social (obv).

Remember when Domino's marketing strategy was, sorry our pizza got terrible, we fixed it?

OH: The difference between dogs and cats is that dogs don't know about evil. social.lol/@bw/115131763280595443

JavaScribble — Summon swarms of spaghetti code from thin air and hurl them at the target of your choice.

This melody lives in my head rent-free (alongside a bunch of Super Mario tunes) and I whistle it absentmindedly almost daily.

This has to be a scam, right?

Am I looking at a legit thing?

I tried to go to Bluesky a minute ago and saw an announcement that it's blocked for Mississippi users. https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-22-2025-mississippi-hb1126 social.lol/@bw/115098384821691343

New font!

Pizza guy: *does job* Dog: OMG WTAF!?!?

I can’t stop thinking about this.

This incredibly written (and narrated) piece about the colors of emotion hit me like a breath of fresh air. https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/episode/301b46f4/on-hearing-in-color social.lol/@bw/115068336946545072

Without turning my head (which I can’t do anyway) I see four different time displays. - Wall clock (<3) - Primary monitor menu bar - Secondary monitor menu bar - Home-cooked statusboard app on secondary monitor - Bonus: phone lockscreen if display wakes I…

I haven’t played this game in 20+ years but this song lives rent-free in my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Just discovered this really cool color palette by @netopwibby.

My website turned 20 today!

Hypothetical.

Quick, I need some blog posts!

It took two hours of debugging, one of which included 3 developers on a screenshare... to find a misspelled attribute. social.lol/@bw/114990010641225932

Can confirm these are rad!

You'll never have to chase down small breaking changes in your dependency chain you download the CDN versions and commit them directly to your repo. social.lol/@bw/114977504714639056

Any weirdos out there have a favorite light theme for VS Code?

I just said "bro, cope" out loud to webpack running in my terminal because it was showing me an error I already fixed. social.lol/@bw/114972098507528943

At certain levels, your D&D character has the option to take an ability score improvement or a feat.

Made a bunch of updates to Minimal Character Sheet. - Print mode - Collapsible spells - UI tweaks - Bug fixes https://minimalcharactersheet.com social.lol/@bw/114967252818793092

Like synthwave?

Found this website which is similar to the HTML for People vibe.

If you are reading this, you can do it.

Spent nearly all day yesterday refactoring the autosave function on my digital character sheet app.

Tomorrow I’m gonna start procrastinating for real. social.lol/@bw/114910110467382136

I made a thing for D&D peeps!

I've submitted two talks to MagnoliaConf 2025.

Remember, folks, if you change a URL on your website and you don't create a redirect, Sir Tim Berners-Lee will break into your house at night and kill you with a ceremonial dagger fashioned in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. social.lol/@bw/114860153404…

My DM pointed out that Shillelagh lasts for a minute which is a pretty long time in combat and also it doesn't require concentration. social.lol/@bw/114837103517533963

Player’s Handbook: As a druid, we recommend putting your lowest ability score on Strength.

I will be resolving all merge conflicts with *take mine* because that’s the vibe 2025 is giving me. social.lol/@bw/114835765900969052

I love when you unsubscribe from an email list and they have a thing that says if you accidentally unsubscribed, click here.

Does anyone have a favorite command line program for quickly navigating to specific directories?

If you’re using an AI for coding that uses cloud models (eg, Cursor, Claude Code), what’s to stop it from reading your .env file and sending it to the LLM provider?

I really am gonna stop fiddling with Obsidian.

@yianiris@libretooth.gr Yep!

There’s never been a better time to learn HTML… because I made a few minor updates to HTML for People.

Ok I’m gonna do D&D prep and I’m not going to be nerd sniped by the first neat thing that comes across my—OMG WUUUT... https://github.com/javalent/dice-roller social.lol/@bw/114787502122123452

There are people in my circles who, if they change their avatar, will completely ruin my life.

I recently discovered the Cupertino theme for @obsidian and it really is *chef's kiss*.

Take the red pill, they said. social.lol/@bw/114779773200293187

Lmao @mhilltopple on (American) football: > A lot of people will defend challenges tooth-and-nail, because the instant-replay reveals so many bad calls.

My brother @mhilltopple and I made our mom a super simple grocery list app that has one and only one list.