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New comment by blakewatson in "Rediscovering Sublime Text"

blakewatson — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:45:08 +0000

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.

Rediscovering Sublime Text

blakewatson — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:45:08 +0000

Article URL: https://blakewatson.com/journal/rediscovering-sublime-text/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510421

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

The SLAP stack is the last server stack you'll ever need

blakewatson — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:38:04 +0000

Article URL: https://blakewatson.com/journal/the-slap-stack-is-the-last-server-stack-youll-ever-need/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973105

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How (and why) we rewrote our production C++ front end infrastructure in Rust

blakewatson — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:24:04 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2026/04/17/how-and-why-we-rewrote-our-production-c-frontend-infrastructure-in-rust/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009184

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by blakewatson in "GPT-5.5"

blakewatson — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:46:59 +0000

Seems like people don't like this comment, but I chuckled. Nice one.

New comment by blakewatson in "I Love the Em Dash–Too Bad If AI Does Too"

blakewatson — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:52:27 +0000

The en-dash is for ranges. https://practicaltypography.com/hyphens-and-dashes.html

New comment by blakewatson in "I used Claude Code and GSD to build the accessibility tool I've always wanted"

blakewatson — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:34:52 +0000

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.

I used Claude Code and GSD to build the accessibility tool I've always wanted

blakewatson — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:58:28 +0000

Article URL: https://blakewatson.com/journal/i-used-claude-code-and-gsd-to-build-the-accessibility-tool-ive-always-wanted/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069340

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by blakewatson in "jQuery 4"

blakewatson — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 06:12:49 +0000

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...

New comment by blakewatson in "The Olivetti Company"

blakewatson — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 04:27:52 +0000

See also this lovely typeface revival. https://lineto.com/typefaces/valentine

New comment by blakewatson in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

blakewatson — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:19:11 +0000

https://blakewatson.com/

New comment by blakewatson in "How to make a damn website (2024)"

blakewatson — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:25:52 +0000

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/