blakewatson

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.

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

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

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.

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...

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

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/

Yes, this was the one I was thinking of!

TL;DR - The ability of computers to "understand" natural language and intent has staggering implications for accessibility.

I recently hit a 10-year milestone of being employed after many years of trying and failing to get a job.

I can’t get enough of anything that helps me wrap my mind around the scale of objects and distances in the universe.

I recently discovered Epic Spaceman on YouTube, who makes incredible visual comparisons to help understand these scales. https://www.youtube.com/@EpicSpaceman

There’s also Universe Sandbox 2. But tbh this Atlas of Space is more accessible to me due to my various input limitations.

Space Engine let’s you explore the entire observable universe.

I think https://spaceengine.org/ fills part of your request. I haven't played it but I've watched videos about it and it looks like you can jump anywhere around the observable universe and look at any object you want.

I went with "Get started already" :)

Yeah the implication that I guess I didn't make well enough is that it's for anybody who wants to learn it. It’s attainable without needing highly specialized or intensive training.

No I think I will probably keep it focused on HTML. I think my "CSS basics" chapter is as far as I want to go with styling. But I would love to see other folks publish easy-to-understand CSS tutorials.

Yeah, I think you're right about that. I'm not sure whether I want to write something of an appendix myself and link to it, or find something else on the web and link to that.

OP here. Yeah, I was a bit worried about this, and even though I kind of mentioned it in the introduction, I think it deserves more attention. I'm not sure if I want to write something and host it myself, or maybe just point people to some kind of primer on creating files and folders.

Yes! I would love that. I need to update the readme, but I think my strategy would be to place translated chapters in a subfolder, (eg, "/es"). I can configure Eleventy to generate a different nav menu based on the subpath.

OP here. Oooh that’s a good suggestion. Yeah it’s hard to shed the webdev persona and see it through fresh eyes—even though I specifically tried to do just that!

OP here. I appreciate the kind words. Yeah, I hope it finds its way into the hands of non-professionals.