Will Browar

Will Browar

@wbrowar.com

Professional programmer (Front-end Development Lead) 👨🏻‍💻, long-time drummer 🥁, aspiring woodworker 🪚, forever photography student 📸, Craft CMS plugin programmer 🥃 https://wbrowar.com

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We saw Wildwood yesterday and I’m still thinking about it. The behind-the-scenes work on this movie is incredible and it all shows on screen. The movie is epic, and I just kept flipping back and forth between thinking it looks too good to be made on a computer, but then thinking it can’t be real.

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Great story and voice performances, too. FYI, it’s kid-friendly for older kids, but someone brought a toddler to our showing and a few scenes got them crying..

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Patching my web server for the one PHP app I have on there turned into a couple days worth of messing with NGINX configs, re-making deploy scripts, re-learning Node server stuff, and looking at other web hosting options. #php #webdev

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I think my setup for this personal stuff is still a good deal and worth having to re-provision my server every few years, despite the headache this time around. All of my sites are safe and sound (or at least easier to patch now). And this time I made sure to update my notes to outline the process.

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A little late to the party, but I’ve been really enjoying The Studio on Apple TV. It really is a show about making movies for people who love movies.

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“Say, what do you think about that artificial intelligence?” — Arachnophobia, 1990 #movies #ai

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I keep seeing posts about Apple’s upcoming home gear and a new Apple TV box. The _only*_ feature I want from a new Apple TV is for it to utilize parental control’s Downtime and App Limits features. #Apple #AppleTV

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I have a feeling there’s some sort of business (streaming deals) reason why it’s never been a feature of tvOS, but with the new focus on parental controls, now seems like a great time to make a change.. *Okay, also a new design for the remote would be great.

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Burton Smith
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Calling all fellow web devs, design engineers, and web components nerds! Would you be interested in a #WebComponents conference??? Let us know! #html #css #javascript #WebDev #DesignSystems

Michael Warren@michaelwarren.dev

What if there was a Web Components conference?? @stuffbreaker.bsky.social and I are teaming up to get a little more serious about the idea of getting one together. We want to gather data on if there is interest in the community forms.gle/ZGqtYGj7V6q8... Please fill out and share to anyone!

forms.gleInterested in a Web Components conference? Let us know below!Web Components folks have been semi-seriously talking about organizing a conference for years, and with the ecosystem in a real moment of growth and popularity, it's about time! This form is our firs...

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Josh Collinsworth
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Hey, friends—I'm excited to share my new project! I call it Tupo. It's a daily logic puzzle with roots in sudoku, where every cell has to have a unique color-number combo. Give it a shot if you like daily logic games, and let me know what you think! playtupo.com

playtupo.comTupo · A daily sudoku-style logic puzzle with a twistA simple logic puzzle of numbers and colors. One new puzzle every day, starting easy and getting harder through the week.

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Scott Jehl
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The 8hr course remains just $25 with the coupon, or you can pay whatever you want—even $0—by emailing me. In between jobs? In school? Whatever, I don’t need a reason. Hit that contact form and learn a bit about web components. 👊

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The End of Oak Street was a fun action/horror movie! It was a little scary for my 8yo, but my 10yo loved it. I won't spoil anything, but the few scenes I caught from the trailer was all I knew going in, and it turned out to be a different premise than I thought.

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The developers behind the VW app have been making lots of little updates and improvements over the last year. The _most exciting_ one, for me, has to be the charging Live Activity they added in the latest update. #VW #EV

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When Nintendo Switch 2 came out, they released upgraded versions of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom and they released a companion in the Switch 2 app that was helps you find shrines and Korok seeds to help you 100% the game. I thought this was a gimmick and not worth checking out.

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My son and I decided to do a replay of Tears of the Kingdom and I told him we should try it out. It turns out to be such a useful tool and the app work is so well done! I wish it were just a web app and not a paid thing, but I like that it keeps track of Link's movement and acts like an in-game GPS.

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Hat tip to @liss.bsky.social for the idea of keeping a tech bag that's always packed and ready to go. I put together a charging bag that I use for smaller trips and it's been such a time saver to just throw it into my duffel bag or luggage and to know I have cables and plugs all set.

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I picked up one of these UniFi travel routers and, thanks to Peak Design's birthday coupon, picked up another tech pouch for bigger trips. That one will be for times where the family comes along and we may want to bring an Apple TV or Nintendos and stuff.

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I put a Peak Design anchor on the travel router, so I can clip it onto different backpacks and bags. This will also make it easier to keep it with either tech pouch, depending on which one I need for the trip.

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I don't usually care about Prime Day, but I just happened to be in the market for a new iPad for my younger kid. His current one is getting bumped out of support for iPadOS 27, but he was also sort of due for one since it's getting super slow.

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Prime Day has a deal on a similar iPad Air that's just a bit better than the educational discount we would have gotten, so I'm just going to go for it.

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The almost 20 years of mobile games on the App Store explains a lot of how GenAI pricing was decided. I'm amazed at the restraint to not call AI tokens "Claude coins" or "Copilot gems" 💎 #webdev

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Star City makes me want to go back and watch some of the earlier seasons of For All Mankind, though. It feels like I forgot a lot in those first few seasons.

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I have a few Audible credits to use and I'm eying the Murderbot series, but I see they have standard audiobooks read by one person, or dramatized versions read by a cast of characters.. Based on the reviews I assume the single narrator is the better option? #books #AudioBook #murderbot

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Thanks to everyone for weighing in! I missed the part where the dramatized editions were abridged, so I'll likely stick to the single-narrator version first, then maybe rent the dramatized versions later.

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I was seriously looking into getting one of those lawnmower robots. I thought maybe the price went down from the last time I looked a few years ago, but I guess it's only gone up. I guess I'll enjoy the extra exercise. 😅

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Working on a personal project and spent like 6 hours this weekend messing with NGINX and CORS-related headers, but I finally got my little project working across two separate subdomains on the same server. Today, it just clicked that with a few changes I can get it all working on one. #WebDev

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The good news is that I learned some stuff about Express, Node, and NGINX config. I feel like struggling to get it all working is still the best way to ingrain this stuff deep into your brain.