Blake’s microblog

RE: https://social.lol/@robb/117240707432164656 I’m now there too!

I just found out this weekend that EchoFeed is going away.

The first section of the homepage of any streaming service should be Continue Watching.

I reconnected with an old friend, Sublime Text. https://blakewatson.com/journal/rediscovering-sublime-text/ social.lol/@bw/117190546053341346

Now the sun goes down over Dolly Parton bridge The one time home of soul takes our country's final breath I guess it takes More than a king More than a song For such a fight Graceland is a ghost town tonight 🥃 https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Really enjoyed this guide by @neatnik about making a website on the cheap where you are 100% in control. https://blakewatson.com/links/2026-08-23-hardcore-indieweb-run-your-own-website/ social.lol/@bw/117145804207233686

Gorgeous blocky font family.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/117129908192670732 Tired: weird AI music Wired: Weird Al music social.lol/@bw/117130114500498725

RE: https://mastodon.social/@drrjv/117119500780155481 I wonder if this would have been more damning if it just used the original text.

"Yes, and allow all edits this session" will be the last thing humans agree to. social.lol/@bw/117129831221609947

We need to call internet trackers something different because my fat self does not like to reject cookies. social.lol/@bw/117122453972624210

I really love this post from Michelle Barker about the joy of building a website as a human for humans (my words lol). https://blakewatson.com/links/2026-08-18-little-websites-everywhere/ social.lol/@bw/117120356430030016

I mentioned this post by Chris Coyier a little while back but figured I’d make it official and blog it. https://blakewatson.com/links/2026-08-18-mediocre-ideas-showing-up-and-persistence/ social.lol/@bw/117117749453601828

Overjoyed is a cool virtual controller to help people with disabilities play the Switch (and PC games). https://blakewatson.com/links/2026-08-17-overjoyed/ social.lol/@bw/117113129867211309

It's 91 degrees Fahrenheit at 10:30 in the morning. 💀 social.lol/@bw/117111561193717913

I got an email asking me if I would be ok with my site being added to a "Y2K-style portal for people who miss the small web".

I have a fanfiction crossover idea where Columbo figures out that Jessica Fletcher is a serial killer who gets off on framing people for murder then "solving" the case. social.lol/@bw/117080785129097711

Sometimes JavaScript (that I probably wrote) makes me so irritated that I start non-cursing under my breath Joe-Pesci-Home-Alone style while trying to fix it. social.lol/@bw/117051934428146477

Shared by a coworker: "If outside was so great we wouldn’t have spent thousands of years making inside." social.lol/@bw/117026439396557967

I appreciate more and more that my otherwise incredibly dumb self in 2005 decided to get a domain name and start hosting a personal website.

Anyone have a recommended CMS that works with static site generators?

I blogged about the SLAP stack (SQLite, Linux, Apache, PHP) and about my first time setting up a VPS. https://blakewatson.com/journal/the-slap-stack-is-the-last-server-stack-youll-ever-need/ social.lol/@bw/116944546341267736

RE: https://social.lol/@bw/116909023662989501 SLAP stack blog post in progress... social.lol/@bw/116919551043877319

I just renewed blakewatson.com for nine years. social.lol/@bw/116919459705668071

Also, the stack I'm using is Linux, Apache, SQLite, and PHP, and I would really like to come up with a good name for that if it doesn't already exist.

In the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty six I decided it was time for me to learn how to install PHP and Apache on a VPS.

I can’t stop thinking about the fact that the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is about a billion dollars. social.lol/@bw/116908552582614268

I was watching the "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" commercial where PC guy is in a wheelchair with casts on, talking about how he got knocked off a table when someone tripped on the power cord.

I like my developer tools the way I like my chocolate chip cookies: GUI!

RE: https://social.lol/@bw/116881731101006901 I wanted to experiment on the cheapest machine I could find and I purchased a month of IONOS' cheapest option.

Does anybody have opinions on VPS providers?

I just realized I hadn't looked at the hard disk icon in Tahoe yet.

I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir on Mastodon, but I really miss the old school Mac OS X icons.

Great piece from @ellane: Before I die I hope to do for someone else what Leila did for me.

Because of my disability, spinal muscular atrophy, I spend a lot of time using a computer.

"AI is here to stay: possibly the most upsetting truth that’s arisen in this golden age of slop." https://aimakesmesad.com/here-to-stay/ social.lol/@bw/116819195297986774

RE: https://social.lol/@bw/116817481492575581 I totally didn't realize that Om died two days ago.

This whole essay is a poetic, sick burn. > Every significant deployment of mythos shares the same features.

Shoot I need to write a blog post this weekend to keep my streak alive.

Tab fatigue social.lol/@bw/116802939801065803

I got my May blog post in with a couple of minutes to spare. https://blakewatson.com/journal/things-i-enjoy-about-dungeons-dragons/ social.lol/@bw/116673044854657719

I just wrote a parenthetical that was so much better than the sentence it was tacked onto that I had to upgrade it to a real boy (ie, I removed the parentheses). social.lol/@bw/116672103130867060

Anyone have any recommendations for artists who do D&D character art commissions?

😓 Writing a Blog Post bw.status.lol/6a1c7dd48b6de

I used to be ashamed of preferring GUIs to CLIs, thinking it a sign that I’m not a Real Developer™.

Controversial opinion: the YouTube algorithm is good, actually.

If you enjoy getting background or focus music from YouTube, here is a pro tip.

I have MMMBop by Hanson stuck in my head.

Where are people getting desktop backgrounds from?

Since I have trouble typing, I used to have a really hard time staying caught up in Slack or Discord chats.