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How to solve a problem you've been banging your head against. 1. Type out a long question to a coworker. 2. The answer becomes apparent while researching the question. 3. Erase the message. https://social.lol/@bw/114586399608520517

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I’ve got 69 unread emails, which is nice. https://social.lol/@bw/114547523719673297

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I just learned the term GEO (generative engine optimization) and now I want to die. https://social.lol/@bw/114479570629288206

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Been playing a lot of Baldur’s Gate 3. https://social.lol/@bw/114468615028865824

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Star Wars day marks one decade since I got my first full time job. There was a time when I thought I would never be hired because of my disability. I decided to celebrate the ten year milestone with a writeup about how I got here. https://blakewatson.com... https://social.lol/@bw/114452768104301577

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I’ve had Crazy by Gnarls Barkley stuck in my head for two weeks. And I keep thinking about this dramatic monologue: https://www.instagram.com/p/DA2qD00Mh7R/ Before you watch it, think twice. That’s my only advice. https://social.lol/@bw/114450708370386589

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I love videos that demonstrate the scale of things in the universe. I could watch these types of videos for hours. I decided to share a few of my favorite ones. https://blakewatson.com/journal/im-fascinated-by-the-scale-of-things-in-space-and-you/ https://social.lol/@bw/114418252926234606

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Seeing as I'm in a wheelchair, I would just like to announce that I will be missing all future standups. … I will see myself out. https://social.lol/@bw/114388609412107611

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Takes antibiotics and chases it with probiotics. Mortal Kombat voice FIGHT! https://social.lol/@bw/114384676620190502

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I've been using Superwhisper for Mac, especially when chatting in Slack or Discord to prevent me from doing so much typing. The problem is it likes to capitalize things like LOL, which makes me look like a serial killer or something. https://social.lol/@bw/114376671547404091

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My PCA told me that God debuffed me because he knew I would be too powerful. https://social.lol/@bw/114371564720851007

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I have mixed feelings about what I’m calling “AI guilt.” On one hand I see incredible accessibility applications, but also the corrosive side of the technology. I’m not sure if I’m down with blaming end users. I can see where people are coming ... https://social.lol/@bw/114349624005082682

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Been talking to a few people recently who want to write but are already putting themselves under immense pressure to "write perfectly"* It's about time I unearthed this again bell.bz/just-post/ * I wouldn't know what a perfect article looked like tbh

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Whisper transcribed “monospaced” as “mono-based” and I’m not even mad. https://social.lol/@bw/114338667565897641

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I’m coming up on ten years of being employed full-time (May 4, Star Wars day). I'll do a blog post on that day, but it’s been quite a ride. I’m lucky to have been born at a time when (and a place where) there was enough technology available to make ... https://social.lol/@bw/114260744473581653

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Toward the end I wrote: > I make websites. And not having a job right now isn’t going to take that away from me. I still have my dreams. One day, something big is going to happen. I’ll land my dream job. Or I’ll become a successful freelancer. And ... https://social.lol/@bw/114260739394842302

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In 2011 I was on year 2 of being unemployed out of college (it would go on to be 6 years). When a company ghosted me after a promising interview, I was pretty down. Some things happened which jolted me out of the gloom. I took to my (now archived) blog to... https://social.lol/@bw/114260736884102302

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My brother tried his hand at blogging in Spanish (with an English translation). https://www.mattwatson.org/blog/20250330-palabras-y-personas/ https://social.lol/@bw/114258936940050074

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I hate it when I check the blame on some questionable code and git is like “You, 4 days ago.” https://social.lol/@bw/114240786740183367

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The lights flicker whenever I turn my desktop space heater on. That's fine, right? https://social.lol/@bw/114225404320232080

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BREAKING: New executive order instructs federal agencies to "make good deals" https://social.lol/@bw/114202008005423053

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I’m getting worried about my ability to physically use a mouse. I use some cool voice control tools but they make me speak like a computer. I’m increasingly tired of computers not “getting me.” https://blakewatson.com/journal/my-computer-treats-m... https://social.lol/@bw/114197716234366555

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Whenever I'm using a reactive JavaScript library and my code doesn't react like I think it should, I get irrationally angry and I'm all like, USE A REACTIVE LIBRARY THEY SAID. IT REACTS TO YOUR CHANGES THEY SAID. https://social.lol/@bw/114196280209848237

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I'm trying to pick back up on my goal from last fall to learn C# and (after that) .NET Core. I also want to see what it's like to build interactive frontend UI with HTMX. As an experimental project I'm thinking of doing a multiplayer Yahtzee clone where ... https://social.lol/@bw/114192271723739588

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BREAKING: Executive order instructs all federal employees to refer to the president as “Real Donald Trump” with optional initial, "J" A anonymous White House staffer said the “J” is not optional but merely a test of loyalty. https://social.lol/@bw/114190634545359075

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BREAKING: New executive order clarifies that previous executive orders are subject to change “Just check the president’s Truth Social account for the latest,” a spokesperson said. “We can’t keep up.” https://social.lol/@bw/114186031708457554

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To be fair, they said we could still disco dance at the Grand Opening.* * I don't know what they're opening, and they didn't say. https://social.lol/@bw/114162243975851014

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I got a legitimate-looking email from someone I’ve never heard of from an org I’ve never heard of that informed me that the disco party has been cancelled. So that sucks. https://social.lol/@bw/114161960720247296

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I was helping @mhilltopple (https://mastodon.social/@mhilltopple) debug some JavaScript and had a complete brain fart where I thought you could check for the existence of a variable with an if statement. But no. You can assign to a nonexistent variable... https://social.lol/@bw/114161667788816622

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BREAKING: South America renamed South Mexico by latest executive order Sources say a broad redefinition of other continents is being discussed. https://social.lol/@bw/114161600046249550

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BREAKING: All federal employees to be paid with dogecoin instructs latest executive order When asked if the employees could pay their taxes with dogecoin, the White House spokesperson snickered and left the podium. https://social.lol/@bw/114152440864402742

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