Blake Watson @[email protected]
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Frontend Engineer at MRI Technologies / @NASA. Web tinkerer, wheelchair user, font hoarder, INTJ, Christian. @[email protected]
Byram, MS
Joined May 2008
Diet Soda Club is out today!
Happy Pub Day!! Take a look at all the exciting new books hitting the shelves today: https://t.co/n9TXUAoO3P
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🚀 #PixiJS v8 is out! 🌟 Enjoy over 200% performance boosts with our new #WebGPU & #WebGL renderers 🎉 Raising the bar for #2D #Web one pixel at a time! Explore the details: https://t.co/SugDHYLl9p
#javascript
pixijs.com
PixiJS v8 The Future of 2D Web Graphics is Here!
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We’re looking for a backend engineer for NASA projects (US remote) .NET (C#, Web API), Postgres, CI/CD. #Jobs
https://t.co/7OvvKvJYtn
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The very funny and OG MagnoliaJS speaker @blakewatson talking about home cooked apps - things we build for ourselves to make our lives easier. Love the name, I know I’ve definitely cooked up apps for myself before. #MagnoliaJS
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Great discussions on @JavascriptJam! Check em out because next week there will be more @MagnoliaJSconf guests. Now to go finish my talk... 😅
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Tomorrow we open mic🎙️chat 🎃 @MagnoliaJSconf with @tdesseyn and @blakewatson !! https://t.co/KTWIKGn2WF
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There's still time to tell me about your home-cooked app!
Hey friends, I’m giving a talk at @MagnoliaJSconf and I need your help! My talk is about home-cooked apps—the ones you make for yourself or friends. I’m looking for examples I can share. If you’re interested in sharing, here’s more info and a short form: https://t.co/sW3yjdYjjJ
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.@BennieGThompson @SenatorWicker @SenHydeSmith please co-sponsor the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act (S.2767/H.R.5408). Since 1989, the #SSI asset limit has not been raised, forcing people w/ disabilities into poverty. #UpdateSSI
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Hey friends, I’m giving a talk at @MagnoliaJSconf and I need your help! My talk is about home-cooked apps—the ones you make for yourself or friends. I’m looking for examples I can share. If you’re interested in sharing, here’s more info and a short form: https://t.co/sW3yjdYjjJ
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Maybe it's just a reminder that we are building things for humans and we need to account for that. See also - https://t.co/LGYJFkR5Ww -
chriscoyier.net
I was at the airport the other day, and a guy who works for Delta told me he wants to use their website-based system to give a friend a flight voucher. He can’t do it from his phone, it just …
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Throughout my years designing software, I think about this tweet a lot. Probably at least once a year. idk why.
When what's intended as a private DM goes out as a Tweet, a simple interface problem becomes a complex human one.
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🍬 TECH OR TREAT! 🎃 We're so excited to have @blakewatson at MagnoliaJS 2023, happening on October 17-18 at the @MSMuseumArt in Jackson, MS! Get ready for an unforgettable Halloween-themed tech conference! 🎟: HURRY! Early bird ends TODAY, June 30! https://t.co/V25CSMN9cd
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.@SenatorWicker @SenHydeSmith please co-sponsor the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act. Since 1989, the #SSI asset limit has not been raised, forcing people w/ disabilities into poverty. #UpdateSSI
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"use a cdn for static libraries" they said "you don't need to serve these files yourself" they said this works great until unpkg goes down
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They've got this all backwards. Twitter isn't providing value to these tools as much as these tools provide value to Twitter. They're just giving people more reasons to leave.
Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵
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RIP Twitterrific and Tweetbot
Welp. I have mostly moved over to a Mastodon instance. Twitter killing @tweetbot and @Twitterrific kind of ruined the experience for me. I will miss a few peeps over here, but fortunately it looks like a lot of my follows have already migrated as well.
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