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Here’s how you make a D&D character with the 2024 rules.

I know someone who is interested in making apps.

Wizards probably think they deserve their own saving throw, the self-important bastards.

Showing all opened windows on macOS will always be "Exposé" to me. social.lol/@bw/116517155114032710

Sometime within the last couple of years or so, I became totally burnt out (heh) on cool colors.

I switched over to Numbers Creator Studio.

When I wrote HTML for People, I envisioned non-tech people learning it because knowing HTML is a generally useful skill in information work.

I am once again asking for your VS Code light theme recommendations. social.lol/@bw/116448798910044986

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I did a little writeup of the new stuff in Minimal Character Sheet. https://blakewatson.com/journal/dice-rolling-and-more-on-minimal-character-sheet/ social.lol/@bw/116431536342696539

Does anyone else wish there was a setting in macOS that would give you a plain white or light gray menu bar (without reducing transparency everywhere)?

If you are skilled with Python and Go and want to work on projects for NASA, we've got some openings at MRI. https://mricompany.applicantpro.com/jobs/4055316 Check the full list of openings for security and cloud operations.

Minimal Character Sheet experienced an unfortunate security event yesterday.

NEW FEATURE for Minimal Character Sheet 🎉 You can now roll dice directly from your character sheet!

Somehow, I've never heard of this and I can tell I'm about to go down a deep rabbit hole.

I have *got* to let go of some domain names.

I'm a multi-browser user, but for my personal daily driver I use Firefox.

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116319373644067043 I recently shared Tuna for Mac, which is an app launcher inspired by Quicksilver.

The excitement—and, frankly, sheer giddiness—with which this developer introduces his new app is the most wholesome thing I’ve seen this week.

Watch this if you need a pick-me-up and want to see a bunch of people fail their charisma saving throws. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

I first saw this long questionnaire on @shellsharks's (very cool) website.

You face an undead wizard?

This is a great essay full of nostalgia and I can’t help but think about my own adventures in computing when I read it. https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/ social.lol/@bw/116224236105520972

Scroll My Mac has a website now!

@11ty Is there a world where Web Awesome components could be rendered by Eleventy and then "hydrated" after page load?

I vibe coded for the first time.

"php devs always survive tech disruptions" — @mhilltopple social.lol/@bw/116088606385482037

Dear Mac app developers, please ask your users before making your app the default for a given file type.

Need a browser extension for email that replaces: "We are updating our subscriber agreement" with: "We are altering the deal; pray we don’t alter it further" social.lol/@bw/116048878272150343

One of my goals this year is getting better at CSS.

The CSS Working Group publishes a page with all of the things that they'd like to fix in CSS but can't because the "mistakes" are already in the wild and changing them would break the web—an unforgivable sin.

I brought my music library over into Doppler.

She should be allowed to speak to that AI to request reconsideration.

I met a disabled woman who was having her allotted in-home caregiver hours slashed because her state used an AI tool that redetermined her care needs.

When I first learned about D&D, I spent a long time not having anyone to play with.

See also https://simplebits.com/ and https://shop.loudroom.com/ https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@jonikorpi/115978680464281028 social.lol/@bw/115979332466685150

To anyone that marked the third option, you can totally make a personal website without learning to code.

Do you have a personal website?

New year, new blog, new RSS feed!

Over my holiday break I played a solo TTRPG for the first time.

Sometimes you need graph paper, whether it’s for a digital background or to print out and draw on.

Superwhisper has been my speech-to-text daily driver for over a year now.

Anybody have a go-to (heh) resource for learning Go?

Every Risk player knows if you want to protect North America you don't stop at Greenland.

Health care in America is obviously very screwed up.

I say this as someone who really enjoys writing JavaScript. https://social.lol/@bw/115901138426144070 social.lol/@bw/115912268135055925

No problem exists in this world that can’t be exacerbated by JavaScript. social.lol/@bw/115901138426144070

I've been getting into a solo TTRPG called Ironsworn: Starforged.

If anyone would know, it would be Fedi peeps!

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/ social.lol/@bw/115867810427380614