iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 03/09/2026

Someone used my portfolio site as inspiration for theirs. I can tell because they copy/pasted the "about me" verbatim, including the name of my site 😆

Someone's About Me section on their portfolio site, with the following text copied verbatim from mine: "I'm a design technologist in Atlanta. I like working on the front-end of the web. This is my site, Coder's Block, where I blog and share whatever side projects I've been working on".

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 31/08/2026

👎👎👎 "to keep Reddit safe" 🙄

Screenshot of old.reddit.com, now requiring you to log in with an account.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 24/07/2026

Got this today. I like it.

Air Pods case in the shape of a Korok’s backpack from Zelda.

Same Korok backpack case, but open to reveal Air Pods.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 24/06/2026

Cleared ascension 10 in Slay the Spire 2. Please clap. (sorry for the blown out HDR screenshot)

Screenshot of Slay the Spire 2, showing the run clear summary for an ascension 10 run.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 25/05/2026

An update on "Allbirds shares jump over 400% on plans to pivot to AI".

Graph showing BIRD stock value over the past 6 months. There's a huge spike where they announced AI plans, but then the value goes down to -23.66% from where the graph starts.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 06/01/2026

Kept track of all the video games my 8yo son and I beat over 2025 on a chalkboard wall. Here’s the final result!

Chalkboard wall with 24 video games written on it, with dates.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 05/11/2025

Mom came by to drop off this ludicrous amount of kimchi. Not pictured: the radish kimchi, white kimchi, and kimchi soup she also dropped off.

A rather large container filled with kimchi.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 31/10/2025

Please check your kids' Halloween candy! I found `will-change` being prematurely and excessively applied to elements and pseudo-elements in a way that actually harms performance and could have stacking context side effects in this candy bar.

Candy bar being split open with a snippet of CSS implied to have come out of it:

*, *::before, *::after {
will-change: transform, opacity;
}

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 21/10/2025

Sriracha wings for dinner.

Plate of chicken wings cooked with sriracha marinade, with red bell pepper slices and ranch sauce.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 24/09/2025

Dropped my wedding ring and it shattered. Fortunately it was only $3 from a beach gift shop and I bought an extra.

Rainbow hematite ring, broken into pieces.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 03/09/2025

Chipotle gets our orders wrong a lot, but this is prob the best one yet. Kid’s cheese quesadilla, but instead of cheese, they put… nothing. A kid’s nothing quesadilla 😅

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 05/06/2025

I wasn’t able to pre-order a Switch 2, but on a whim I checked out my local Best Buy at 10:30am today and got one, no problem. 🎉

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 17/05/2025

Just noticed this in Chrome on Windows. Catastrophic. Literally unusable. I just... I have a child. He's so young and innocent. I don't know how I'm going to explain this to him.

Screenshot of Chrome, showing the first browser tab not fully aligning with a curved edge. A red circle highlights the very minor visual issue.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 12/05/2025

Lawful and/or Neutral Good, but I appreciate Chaotic Neutral for pre-minimizing. Also, unsure where "indenting with semicolons instead of spaces" fits on the chart. 🤔

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 17/04/2025

I uh… think I ordered the wrong size (new on right).

Two containers of goldfish food. One I already had on the left, small. New one I ordered on right, massively bigger.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 06/03/2025

Finished setting up my new desk. I like it.

A wooden desk in a dimly lit room. A couple monitors, gaming chair, keyboard piano, various decorations on the wall, RGB lighting.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 05/03/2025

pour one out for my old friend ublock 💔

Screenshot of Chrome pop-up saying the uBlock Origin extension was turned off because it is no longer supported.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 16/01/2025

💪 dame.is/ratingalttext

Bluesky Alt Text Rating for user codersblock.com showing 399 posts analyzed, 43 posts containing images, 43 posts with alt text. A score of 100% is displayed with a smiley face.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 09/01/2025

Added Bluesky to my site footer so yeah I guess you could say we're in a serious relationship now ❤️

Row of 6 footer icons, with the first being the Bluesky butterfly.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 07/01/2025

It’s 2025 and we bought a printer. Seemed like such an archaic thing to buy, but it’s already been super useful. Bought it for my wife’s writing, but I’ve also used it to print sheet music and some crafty stuff for our kid.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 05/01/2025

Maybe 2025 is the year I get a handle on my messages.

Screenshot of iOS dock with many unread notification badges.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 02/01/2025

VS Code has a built-in diffing tool. - Hit cmd + shift + p - Run "File: Compare New Untitled Text Files" - Put stuff in the left and right editors to see the diff

Compare tool in VS Code, showing side-by-side editors with differences between them highlighted in red and green.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 28/12/2024

Got my kid a Tamagotchi for Christmas. I realized my mistake almost immediately, when he asked how to pause it and I said you can’t and it stressed him out.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 12/12/2024

Should I get my hopes up?

Screenshot of Google News with multiple headlines mentioning a rumor that Half-Life 3 will be announced tonight during The Game Awards.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 11/12/2024

I have a 3 ½ inch floppy disk pinned to a cork board above my desk. I’ve had it since my first programming job after graduation. Found it in the desk I was assigned. Used it as a coaster for years. I have no idea what’s on it. But it has sentimental value to me. I’ve had it my entire career.

3 ½ inch floppy disk, pinned to a cork board, with some other decorative things around it.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 08/12/2024

This fluffy jerk cannot wait to wreck this Christmas tree.

Cat sitting on the edge of a couch right next to a Christmas tree.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 04/12/2024

Oh hey, my Domo Dance Party got featured in the latest edition of The @codepen.io Spark. Neat! codepen.io/spark/417

Screenshot of The CodePen Spark page, 2024-12-02 edition selected, with Domo Dance Party featured.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 04/12/2024

Yet another year of being in the top 0.5% of listeners for Armin van Buuren.

Spotify Wrapped showing Armin van Buuren as my top artist.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 03/12/2024

GET OUT OF HERE WITH YOUR LIES, APPLE

iPhone search for “sexy kermit” showing no results.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 03/12/2024

I'm curious how many people didn't realize this 👇 #CSS nesting is natively supported in all major browsers. The following works as-is, no SCSS preprocessing needed.

article {
padding: 20px;

h1 {
font-size: 2.5rem;

&::before, &::after {
content: '-';
}
}
}

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 02/12/2024

tired: github streaks wired: github whatever this is

A mostly empty GitHub contribution calendar. A single day shows 5,112,875 contributions.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 01/12/2024

Sharing this incredibly useful site now that it's Christmas season. isitchristmas.com

Browser window with isitchristmas.com open, showing a huge "NO" in white on a black background.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 29/11/2024

Cursed #CSS tip: you can use an attribute selector to surgically override an inline style. (I'm sorry)

[style*="color: yellow;"] {
color: blue !important;
}

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 27/11/2024

Heads up, #Git gives you a quick way to switch back to your previous branch. Just use a dash (-) in place of the branch name. This makes it easy to hop back and forth between two branches.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 27/11/2024

A little browser history for you. Browsers used to put tabs UNDER the address bar. Eventually the mental model for this shifted, with the idea that the address was a property of the current tab and should be within it. So browsers moved the address bar BELOW the tabs.

Screenshot of Firefox 1.5, with the tab bar below the address bar.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 26/11/2024

Who else played with Technic Legos? I loved them so hard. They definitely shaped my interest in engineering at an early age. I remember getting this set in particular one Christmas, had so much fun with it.

Technic Lego set 8074, showing a stationary crane model and a few others.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 25/11/2024

I can step out of my own head and say that Satisfactory is a really good game. But I have a hard time with it because I want to build everything perfectly and cleanly but I just don't think it's that kind of game.

Screenshot of the video game Satisfactory, with conveyer belts going all over the place.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 24/11/2024

Who remembers web-safe colors? In the early web days, there were only 216 colors blessed as "web-safe" -- you could expect them to look correct on all displays. It was extremely limiting for design! If you've ever noticed the "Only Web Colors" checkbox in Photoshop, it's a holdover from this.

Screenshot of the color picker in Photoshop. A checkbox labelled "Only Web Colors" is checked. The visible colors to select from are limited.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 24/11/2024

If you click the "..." there are options to "show more like this" and "show less like this". I haven't used this, and maybe it's not exactly what you're asking for, but might help.

Screenshot of the Bluskey app with the "..." menu expanded in the discover feed. Several options are shown, with "show more like this" and "show less like this" circled in pink.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 22/11/2024

What video games are folks playing this weekend? I restarted Death's Door. Phenomenal indie game. Also planning to start It Takes Two with my 7yo. He's really into 2-player couch co-op lately.

Death's Door video game screenshot. A crow with a sword stands near some housing by a tree.

It Takes Two video game screenshot. Split screen, with two characters shrunken in size.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 22/11/2024

In high school, I would cheat on math tests by writing programs in my TI-85 calculator to solve problems for me. Ironically, in the process of writing the programs I would learn the material well enough that I didn't even need to cheat anymore.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 21/11/2024

Alright, so I had no idea what this meant so I did some googling and I think I got it. And then I gave them a listen. Well played.

Album cover for Calculating Infinity, by The Dillinger Escape Plan.

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 21/11/2024

Heads up, #CSS has an `infinity` constant. You can use it to create an unbeatable z-index.

.very-important-thing {
z-index: calc(infinity);
}

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