Arri's Gay Little blog

Arri looking into the camera

Arri Blais

Human doing the best she can
Paper coffee cup with a die cut sticker of a cartoon black cat loafing with a plant growing out of its head. To the left and occluding the cup is an old fashioned donut. in the background is a yard with a chain-link fence with green privacy strips.

Sharing is Caring: Solving the config problem in Worktrees

November 2, 2025
A photograph of a full mood with a small tree branch occluding it

The System Clock

August 5, 2024
A sound wave display with a rainbow of colors across it

Wavelengths and Pendemics

October 6, 2023
Arm outstretched with a blue wing butterfly landing on it

Timetravel and Cocoons

April 23, 2023
closeup picture of a chromebook on a wood surface. Model is Asus Chromebook Flip.

Beginner Dev Guides: Webdev on a Chromebook

August 3, 2019
An open leather book with a single page reading "Chapter 16" on it. Other words are there but are obscured by the green speckled polyhedral dice on its surface.

Quality Over Quantity

April 18, 2019
Arri's setup, it has 3 monitors on arms with a glacier background spanning across them. On the leftmost screen is a web page labeled "brewlab" and a code window on the center one along with a terminal window. On the right one is a webpage opened to documentation. The Desk it is on is a wood top with sit-stand controls. Along the desk are nicknacks, one is a bronze beetle behind it is a large book-like box with the words "myst" across its cover. On the surface is a yellow legal pad, a pile of floppies and a pink and blue "space invader". To the right of the desk is a lamp shining down on the legal pad. Above the desk, on the walls, are an orange backgrounded picture of megaman without his helmet off. Just 90 degrees away from it is a sketch picture of an old adding machine.

Battlestations Everyone

March 13, 2019
A long table filled with all manor of feasts items. The table is empty of people but is so full it is overflowing.

Eleventy Won

March 3, 2019
A view out of an office park window to the woods surrounding it. Fall foliage is in bloom and the tree in the center is missing many of its leaves.

The Big shift

February 21, 2019
A green and black digital looking series of lines crisscrossing to form a 3-dimensional grid

Tales from the Grid

May 6, 2018
Painting of bilbo in his hobbit hole with the dwarfs playing instruments in the foreground. Behind him is a roaring fire he sits on a stool, head in hand smoking his pipe.

Tabletop Tools: Back to Basics

July 7, 2017
a "No" sigin with the letters "JS" underneath

Why No JavaScript?

August 12, 2016
A sweeping view of the olympic mountain range.

Hello World

August 5, 2016