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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 09/01/2026

Setting Chrome to mimic a 3G network it's even worse! 8 distinct layouts.

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 09/01/2026

When I saw it in real time I thought it was some kind of crazy attempt to animate the player in

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 09/01/2026

What the heck is going on with Spotify's embedded player that it flashes through no fewer than six different layouts as it loads?

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 03/01/2026

And its grades for the final version: * Voice Leading Evolution: Bach-level sophistication * Harmonic Sophistication: Transcendent melodic expression * Hierarchy of Priorities: Transcendent artistryd

- ✅ Transcendent melodic perfection
- ✅ Ultimate expressive culmination
- ✅ Masterful use of appoggiaturas and grace notes
- ✅ Perfect voice leading throughout
- ✅ Publication-quality sophistication

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 03/01/2026

Remembering the time a few months ago where I asked Claude to write a Bach chorale using LilyPond and then do 10 iterations of critical feedback and improvements. It ended up with this hilarious monstrosity. The reviews it gave the final draft were quite impressive...

Bach choral with many ordainments and flourishes

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 10/12/2025

I updated grats.capt.dev internal snapshot tests to serialize using markdown and the result is so nice! Snapshot output now has syntax highlighting and nice readable headings showing what each bit of the output means.

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 12/11/2025

You know you've arrived when someone makes a short-form video in which they point enthusiastically at a thing you made

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 10/11/2025

This weekends exploration for the Winamp Skin Museum: what if you could algorithmically doom scroll Winamp skins 🤔

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 09/10/2025

Shipped Grats v0.0.34 🚀

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 08/10/2025

Got into a conversation with a friend last night about implementing permissions in GraphQL/Grats. Inspired me to write a guide for the Grats docs outlining three strategies that work well. One that I think is particularly elegant is Permission Tokens leveraging Grats' Derived Contexts.

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 08/10/2025

I built Grats' Derived Contexts on a whim, but it ended up being a simple yet powerful compile-time dependency injection engine. A field just defines its dependencies via typed arguments and Grats ensures it gets passed a value at runtime.

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 04/10/2025

As an example: My personal blog (Next.js/RSC) also exposes a GraphQL server: jordaneldredge.com/api/graphql/ I just sprinkled some (68 according to grep) `@gql*` docblock tags around and got it for free by running `npx grats`.

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 02/10/2025

It's been especially gratifying to see agents hit cases that I know are unintuitive and then instantly know how to resolve the issue, and get a clean build on their next attempt.

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 02/10/2025

I designed Grats' around "error driven development": each error provides specific guidance on how to fix it. This has proved a good fit for AI agents. I asked Claude to find an interesting SQLite DB on my computer and build an API using Grats and it did without any help!

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 24/09/2025

Prototyping a version of the Grats playground where you can actually execute your schema right in your browser (in a worker).

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 23/06/2025

Webamp, the NPM library, now has a proper docs site. If you've ever wanted to add a Webamp player to your site, now might be the time: docs.webamp.org

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 12/06/2025

React <ViewTransition /> is pretty good

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 08/05/2025

Perfect. I can bind the “action” button on my phone to “buy a new phone”.

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 01/04/2025

Nice little addition to the footer of my site

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 08/03/2025

jordaneldredge.com/notes/magic-...

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 21/12/2024

Been playing with a reusable client-side GraphQL wrapper around the @archive.org's public REST APIs. I feel like this could make it easier for folks to write interesting apps around this data. lively-sundae-7c90e7.netlify.app

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 16/12/2024

Root GraphQL fields are now easier to define in Grats. Just shipped v0.0.30 with support for root fields: grats.capt.dev/docs/docbloc...

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 23/11/2024

Looks like this was disucssed on Hacker News roday: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4221...

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 09/11/2024

VS Code's debugger is so good. Just ran my tests from the terminal, set a breakpoint in my JS Code and was able to step into the WASM code I'm debugging and inspect the memory with the hex editor plugin. Impressive how well it "just works".

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