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blakewatson

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Web developer (or whatever you want to call it). I have a disability called spinal muscular atrophy. I write about things sometimes: https://blakewatson.com/
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Comment · 2 months ago
After a Visual Studio Code update started causing issues with my onscreen keyboard, I rage-quit for the weekend and hopped over to my old friend, Sublime Text. I'd forgotten how nice it is.
Comment · 6 months ago
Seems like people don't like this comment, but I chuckled. Nice one.
Comment · 7 months ago
The en-dash is for ranges. https://practicaltypography.com/hyphens-and-dashes.html
Comment · 8 months ago
OP here, yeah I get that! I think the only technical input I had was my prompts for fixing bugs. I'm a web developer, so I have some familiarity with the life cycle of mouse events. Depending on what behaviors I was trying to fix, I could infer what was most likely going on in English, not that I knew how to translate it into Swift code.

But yeah, I'm yelling at clouds right next to you.

Comment · 9 months ago
Related: This is a nice write-up of how to write reactive jQuery. It's presented as an alternative to jQuery spaghetti code, in the context of being in a legacy codebase where you might not have access to newer frameworks.

https://css-tricks.com/reactive-jquery-for-spaghetti-fied-le...

Comment · 9 months ago
See also this lovely typeface revival. https://lineto.com/typefaces/valentine
Comment · 9 months ago
https://blakewatson.com/
Comment · 9 months ago
Probably not too useful for many in this audience, but I wrote a web book for *absolute beginners* learning HTML. It's very much in the same spirit as the OP's post.

https://htmlforpeople.com/

Comment · 10 months ago
Yes, this was the one I was thinking of!
Comment · 1 year ago
TL;DR - The ability of computers to "understand" natural language and intent has staggering implications for accessibility.

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