@bw’s statuslog
Getting back into Slay the Spire.
1 week agoI just used to add like 40 feeds to my Feedbin.
1 month agoWorld War Z-index
2 months agoMonday already being Monday
2 months agoWorking on launching something special for my fellow omgalolers...
4 months agoChristmas time off commencing in 3... 2... 1...
4 months agoLove seeing the statuses from all the new peeps in here. Welcome!
4 months agoomg.lol: an oasis on the internet -
4 months agoI’m writing something that’s been a year in the making—my nerd crush on everything omg.lol. I’m coming up on my first anniversary!
4 months agoBehind on my NaNoWriMo 2023 writing goal, as is the natural order of things.
5 months agoListening to the album Infinite Arms by Band of Horses while I work and, man, I forgot how good this was. #NowPlaying
5 months agoNo I don’t want to update my scanner’s software right now. Yes I’m sure. It’s just like I said yesterday and the day before that and the day before that.
7 months agoThings Are Great by Band Of Horses #NowPlaying
7 months agoMakin’ forms
7 months agoWhat We Saw from the Cheap Seats by Regina Spektor #NowPlaying
8 months agoMonday enters the chat.
8 months agoI was trying to get to get some work done when suddenly my brain decided that it needed to see a list of all Death Cab for Cutie albums ranked RIGHT NOW.
8 months agoMy wheelchair's joystick stopped working when I got back home from a doc appointment. So I swapped out the joystick for the one on my previous chair. It worked, but turns out the orientation of that one is off by like 45 degrees. So I had to rewire my brain on the fly in the heat just to get out of the van and into the house. Took about 30 minutes.
Related: this is the best Coke Zero I’ve ever had.
8 months agoWearing my SomaFM tee today so that means jamming to some DEF CON.
8 months agoBrain is fried from designing favicons. They’re hard and I’m out of design practice.
9 months agoWorking on favicons for some NASA apps. Nice little break from coding.
9 months agoNoise cancellation on but not listening to anything.
9 months agoAnd…. another caregiver didn’t show up for an interview.
9 months agoMy wheelchair’s joystick is glitching out. Kinda worried it’s gonna die at any time.
9 months agoAnother caregiver interviewee ghosted me. Really hurts my faith in people. Ugh.
9 months agoCease To Begin by Band of Horses #NowPlaying
9 months agoI’m interviewing caregivers and they keep ghosting me. Why go through the trouble to apply and schedule an interview?
9 months agoGive Up by The Postal Service turned 20 this year! #NowPlaying
9 months agoBlake Watson 3.8 released today. Once again it’s hacky, untested code with a lot of bugs that was YOLO’d into production.
10 months agoFinally getting around to adding print styles to my personal site. break-after: avoid
is not avoiding tho. hmmmm
Finished reading (well, listening to) We Are Legion (We Are Bob). Very cool book for space lovers. It’s a series, so I’ll probably be continuing on with it.
10 months agoThe Photo Album by Death Cab for Cutie #NowPlaying
10 months agoWorking to the tunes on Hard Candy by Counting Crows.
10 months agoI’m back after a four-day power outage. Being a disabled web developer, a multi-day power outage is existential-crisis-inducing. My whole life's work and all of my skills and abilities suddenly gone and meaningless. When the power came back, it was like waking up from a bad dream. Did those four days actually happen?
10 months agoAlbums I've enjoyed today:
MORE D4TA by Moderat Depression Cherry by Beach House Lost On You by LP
10 months agoI whistle at my desk a lot. I’m not a great whistler but I really enjoy it. Sometimes it’s a melody. Sometimes it’s a harmony. Sometimes it’s just whatever my brain decides to procedurally generate.
Reason #112 that I won't be working on location any time soon if I can help it.
10 months agoTime to convert coffee into code.
10 months agoAdding search to my personal site. Like many folks on social.lol, working on my website is one of my most favorite things to be doing.
10 months agoLiving Through the Window by Something Corporate #NowPlaying
10 months agoTrying to decide how to redesign the homepage of my personal site.
10 months agoSomewhere Under Wonderland by Counting Crows #NowPlaying
10 months agoScrewing around with Docker all afternoon instead of doing the actual work I need to do. Hate Docker. I’m sure it’s great but, man.
10 months agoSpoke at a web dev meetup Wednesday night about “home-cooked” apps. It went great! iA Presenter is a nice tool.
10 months agoI am become death, destroyer of this codebase.
10 months agoTrying to decide if it’s time to join some webrings. Yes, right? But which ones?
10 months agoProcrastinating starting on a talk I'm supposed to give on Wednesday.
10 months agoThis morning’s soundtrack is Depression Cherry by Beach House.
11 months agoVery much enjoying Tycho this week for some reason. I think my favorite album is Epoch.
11 months agoGloomy weather. Time to play some Death Cab and feel sad.
11 months agoIt was a random impulse buy on the then-brand-new iTunes Store. Maybe it’s because I’ve been listening to it for nearly 20 years now, I don't know. But I've really come to adore the album Mouthfuls by Fruit Bats.
11 months agoHello status.lol. I miss you.
1 year agoHiring caregivers for me and my brother. It’s tough, but I’m proud of the lil PHP app we made for receiving and processing applications.
1 year agoFinding it difficult to focus today.
1 year agoMy whole day was tanked with a whack-a-mole-style onslaught of Docker and NPM errors. Finally got my environment running again but, man, my brain was fried afterward.
1 year agoLove this track. The Girl Who Stole My Tamagotchi by Hot Sugar
1 year agoWriting about classless CSS themes.
1 year agoTesting status.log app’s Mastodon connection.
1 year agoI am thinking it’s a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images and when we kiss they perfectly align.
1 year agoI made an old man rant on social.lol about scrollbars and it became my most popular social media post ever. Gives me warm fuzzies that so many others care about this humble-yet-powerful UI control.
1 year agoUpgraded all of my internet gear down to the ethernet cables. Hopefully this finally solves the terrible coverage in my house. But why do these fancy routers need to look like alien tech from sci-fi?
1 year agoThe opening keyboard synths on Everything In Its Right Place. Bliss I tell you.
1 year agoPulling my hair out over here trying to reliably reproduce Schrodinger’s bug.
1 year agoGot a meeting but just ran out of coffee.
1 year agoFangs! is a sci-fi fantasy concept album. It tells a story in bits and pieces. To this day the fans are trying to figure out what it all means.
1 year agoDates in JavaScript, we meet again.
1 year agoJust finished up The Rainmaker by John Grisham. Going to try to catch the movie this weekend.
1 year agoThe coolest thing about the new HomePod is the in-built temperature sensor. I will finally prove to everyone else in the house that my room is colder than the thermostat reads.
1 year agore:
I ended up going with Night Owl.
1 year agoPicking out a new code editor theme...
1 year agoThis government thing I was waiting on came through!
1 year agoWaiting on something that moves at the speed of government.
1 year agoOk, time to work on this thing. Oh, let me start some music. Wait, the Spotify version of this album doesn’t have the bonus track. No problem, I'll use Bandcamp. Wait, then I can’t scrobble to Last.fm. I bet there’s a way—ah, yes a browser extension. I'll install that. Ok, now what as I doing again?
1 year agoI’m commenting code.
1 year agoIdioteque by Radiohead (listening to the whole Kid A album) #NowPlaying
1 year agoReading Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones) by Marianne Bellotti.
1 year agoRandomly started whistling the theme from Dire, Dire Docks.
1 year agoSlept in this morning. Now trying to drink some coffee to wake up.
1 year agoI used status.lol's webhook feature to make a custom integration of statuses on my website.
1 year agoThe quick blinks became slower, more deliberate. Maybe I'll just close my eyes for a second, he thought.
Some say he’s still out there at a desk somewhere, sleeping.
1 year agoI love that one can say "There are robots on Mars," and not be lying. There are ROBOTS ON MARS, yall.
1 year agoIt has occurred to me that for the past few weeks I have begun frequently using the term "fancy pants."
1 year agoWorking on a little web app when suddenly out of nowhere my brain goes, "What if 1Password goes away and the app no longer works and you can't get any of your passwords and 1Password somehow lost all of their backups and you really need your passwords like right now? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO THEN, PRAY TELL?"
1 year agoI spent the better part of the day working on . It's going to be a little dice rolling room. My first time working with websockets. Kinda neat.
1 year agoI’m getting a crash course in socket.io over here.
1 year agoLove this instrumental album, Voyager 1, by Adam Young. Only recently did I learn the artist is also Owl City.
1 year agoChanging your VS Code theme is a dangerous move, possibly leading to hours of wasted time. I hate it when I get the urge.
1 year agoSongs About Jane
1 year agoAugust and Everything After by Counting Crows
1 year agoI'm using to find my Twitter follows on Mastodon.
1 year agoIn the Tuesday / Thursday meeting. We started abbreviating it to TTH. Then started calling it the “tooth.”
1 year agoI’ve been obsessed with since signing up a week ago. Its fun, people-centered, old-web-meets-new-web vibe is lit and I’m 100% here for it.
1 year agoI did some custom integrations to get my statuslog and my social.lol posts saved on my microblog.
1 year agoCurrently listening to RMS Titanic by Adam Young. I'm not sure why but I was obsessed with the Titanic when I was a kid. So I’m sitting here listening to Lifeboats and suddenly it moves into Nearer, My God, to Thee, the last song allegedly played by band on board the ship when it was sinking. Hit me right in the feels man.
1 year agoMicrosoft's Fluent emoji look pretty great. The lying face is weirdly off-putting. Loving them over here on status.lol tho! I’m interested in whether the novelty will wear off and make them too loud. #noxp
1 year agoI just realized that I think of Jim Carrey's How the Grinch Stole Christmas as a "new movie."
1 year agoLove the space vibes on this album.
1 year agoI got so used to the coffee at my last employer that now I drink it at home. Community Dark brewed with a Mr. Coffee machine. Get your fancy pants stuff out of my face.
1 year agoCoke Zero is mostly water, right? Right?
1 year agoI find myself wanting to post emoji reactions to statuses on status.lol. But all you can do is look. Maybe that's how it should be.
1 year agoFeeling grateful for all the free and open source software out there that keeps civilization running.
1 year agoEvery app is just a series of forms trying not to look like forms.
1 year agoMr. Brightside by The Killers #NowPlaying
1 year agoIf everything worked correctly, this status should show up at .
1 year agoPlaying around with the statuslog webhook and API (this is a test lol).
1 year agoI’m out of coffee. It was nice knowing all of you.
1 year agoI just bought an omg.lol address so I could see how far off base the haters on Hacker News were. They all over there like: WhY DoN'T YoU JuSt gEt yOuR OwN DoMaIn??
1 year ago