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Justin Blake

@jblaix.bsky.social

https://www.blaix.com I am more active on https://hachyderm.io/@blaix I hack on Gren as part of the core team. It's a cool programming language that you should check out: https://gren-lang.org/ ๐Ÿ’–๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’™ He/Him ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’–

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forgot raisins existed

21.07.2025 20:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Gren Twigs 25 - Pomodoro timer on the command line with Gren TUI: Part 4
YouTube video by Justin Blake Gren Twigs 25 - Pomodoro timer on the command line with Gren TUI: Part 4

The next Gren Twigs is up. It's the final entry on building a cowsay-powered pomodoro timer on the command line. This one covers managing form fields and multiple screens in a gren-tui app for the first time. Wild and crazy stuff.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b-g...

#FunctionalProgramming #gren #tui

09.06.2025 19:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Adding a lot of Jesse Welles to the Fourth of July playlist.

06.06.2025 10:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Gren Twigs 24 - Pomodoro timer on the command line with Gren TUI: Part 3
YouTube video by Justin Blake Gren Twigs 24 - Pomodoro timer on the command line with Gren TUI: Part 3

The next Gren Twig is out. It's part 3 of building a pomodoro timer on the command line with gren-tui. In this one we add a pause feature and some color.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBk6...

#gren #FunctionalProgramming #tui #cow

02.06.2025 13:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

oops I bought a skateboard

29.05.2025 18:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

what are the modern day โ€œchmod incantations until your perl script works in a cgi-binโ€ vibes

29.05.2025 12:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

spending an extra day outside with your friends and family throws off your sense of what day of the week it is. any time there's a special day we should get the whole week off to recalibrate

27.05.2025 15:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 169    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Gren Twigs 23 - Pomodoro timer on the command line with Gren TUI: Part 2
YouTube video by Justin Blake Gren Twigs 23 - Pomodoro timer on the command line with Gren TUI: Part 2

Hey the next Gren Twigs is up about making a pomodoro timer on the command line with gren-tui. In this one we make the cow start counting down our pomodoro timer. Exciting stuff.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEeU...

#FunctionalProgramming #gren #tui

27.05.2025 10:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I only use hjkl to move around in vim because I need a little time to think about what I'm going to do when I get there.

24.05.2025 11:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

back in the day you could just call your band kansas. or genesis

24.05.2025 00:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the simpsons skinner on the playground meme and hes saying โ€œno the trans kids are the problemโ€

23.05.2025 17:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

learn G, C, E, and D and then stop

23.05.2025 17:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm averaging three posts per decade on my blog. Should start thinking of posts for the next ten years.

23.05.2025 15:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

imagine if javascript was real

23.05.2025 15:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Gren Twigs 22 - Pomodoro timer on the command line with Gren-TUI: Part 1
YouTube video by Justin Blake Gren Twigs 22 - Pomodoro timer on the command line with Gren-TUI: Part 1

Posted a new gren twigs video where we start making a command-line pomodoro timer with gren-tui: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUUf...

22.05.2025 19:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

water is a kind of juice from the ground

22.05.2025 00:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Our order of guitar tuners and hermit crab shells is delayed.

21.05.2025 17:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why do I stay subscribed to tech newsletters when they just bum me out. What am I afraid Iโ€™ll miss. Why am I typing this. Where am I. My head hurts.

21.05.2025 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You can use all the exclamation marks and emojis you want in all of your work chats and emails itโ€™s fine!

21.05.2025 17:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

feeling nostalgic for xhtml validators

19.05.2025 23:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Gren Twigs 22 - From Zero to Full Stack Gren with a Database
YouTube video by Justin Blake Gren Twigs 22 - From Zero to Full Stack Gren with a Database

Just posted a video that takes you from an empty directory to a full stack #gren web application that talks to a database!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld1L...

#FunctionalProgramming

19.05.2025 15:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

remember when hosting websites was a business

18.05.2025 15:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sprint: running as fast as you can for a short distance. Yes, this unsustainable way of moving is a good model for how we should work every single week.

14.05.2025 21:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The same kid that said "it's just screaming" when I played them Cap'n Jazz asked "is he making it funny on purpose?" when I played him Daniel Johnston.

14.05.2025 18:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

daniel johnston should have been in cap'n jazz

14.05.2025 18:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

nougat is a kind of sweet dirt

14.05.2025 16:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

CEOs of tech companies love AI. I wonder why...

14.05.2025 13:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Love to click "Got It" on your modal when I in fact do not got it. I didn't even read it.

13.05.2025 18:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What do people find most confusing about JSON decoding in #elm ?

12.05.2025 13:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

love to see a fancy http status code in the wild. 415?! ooh la la

08.05.2025 18:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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