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@jake.fun
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he/they • anothermachine.info • dev advocate • algorithmic music • alternative uses of web technology • reading non fiction • chicago

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jake @jake.fun · 11/04/2025
Look at these MCPs. JSONs are so popular right now. I love visiting HTTPs. Did you get my latest words?
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jake @jake.fun · 11/04/2025
approved
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jake @jake.fun · 20/03/2025
recommendation algos are based on my behavior not my desire. if anything they make it harder for me to access my desire and pollute my decision making. they show you how you behave, not what you want. behavior can be coerced.
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jake @jake.fun · 19/03/2025
design is not the way things look. development is not the way things function.
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jake @jake.fun · 17/03/2025
Kind of a fun one to revisit from the deep archives. Using Sass functions to generate CSS custom properties with raw fallbacks in 2016. We've come so far...but also in so many ways we have not. codepen.io/jak_e/post/c...
A screenshot of code that shows a Sass mixin that uses map get and conditionals to render css custom properties with a raw value fallback.
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jake @jake.fun · 15/03/2025
been trying very hard to utilize ai creatively in some coding endeavors. it’s really good at getting me excited to board and then it strands me on islands with no way home. building by hand, with all its limitations, at the very least comes with an oar and a canoe. i’ve never felt more limited.
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jake @jake.fun · 03/03/2025
CC can only read the component property layer and does not have read access to the style layer (variables or raw values). It also cannot modify your design file at all. Plugins are often used to create and modify items inside of Figma programmatically. Design linting is something I'm interested in!!
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jake @jake.fun · 03/03/2025
A new variant in Figma still requires engineering in code, not just for the property, but style too. Similarly, CC can't modify the design via code. CC doesn't replace DS engineering, it makes the DS easier to use for devs who have a lot of code to implement. LMK if that's unclear!
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jake @jake.fun · 03/03/2025
Code Connect isn't bi-directional. It translates component language in Figma to the expected code component language which is often similar but unique. Knowing which configuration of which component you're looking at can be a challenge for many devs consuming a design file. CC simplifies this.
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jake @jake.fun · 03/03/2025
my favorite thing about prompt to code in 2025 is when it generates "© 2024. All rights reserved." in the footer.
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Lee Martin @leemartin.com · 20/02/2025
Love seeing @jake.fun make a plea for a more creative web. Some of us have never stopped this pursuit but it has felt a bit lonely lately when everyone is trying to prompt to a solution. Join the ever evolving party. 🎈 www.figma.com/blog/why-dev...
figma.com
Why Developers Should Embrace Creative Coding Again | Figma Blog
Modern browsers have evolved beyond what most design tools can do. It’s up to us to break free from templates and tap into the web’s true creative potential.
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jake @jake.fun · 06/02/2025
season finale of using js in the @figma.com console www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2bM...
youtube.com
Solving Problems with JavaScript: Variable Code Syntax | Figma
YouTube video by Figma
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jake @jake.fun · 29/01/2025
Thanks! we have some annotations examples here: github.com/figma/plugin... our docs are really good too and easy to search! www.figma.com/plugin-docs/...
github.com
plugin-samples/annotations at master · figma/plugin-samples
🔌 Sample Figma plugins. Contribute to figma/plugin-samples development by creating an account on GitHub.
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jake @jake.fun · 23/01/2025
A little something I've been working on: encoding audio in image data and playing them back like audio cassettes. Code is open source along with a bunch of other projects. youtu.be/p5-9wCbeqoQ
youtu.be
Encoding Audio in Images
YouTube video by jake
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jake @jake.fun · 16/01/2025
idk maybe you’re into this sort of thing i sure am youtu.be/HO4fb0n-LO0
youtu.be
Solving Problems with JavaScript | Figma
YouTube video by Figma
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jake @jake.fun · 13/01/2025
you gotta have edit access to the file you’re running api code on
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Figma @figma.com · 13/01/2025
Try running plugin API code in the JavaScript console and see what happens
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 07/01/2025
new year, new website :) with thy surest steel gathered to thy side, turn to face these new nightmares, these...True Terrors (of the New Dark Web) plenty to do but i'm thrilled to publish this 🤍 thanks a lot if you end up taking a look, but hark! go heedfully: scroll with caution & with care!
henry.codes
Henry From Online
The personal site & portfolio of creative web developer Henry from Online
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jake @jake.fun · 28/12/2024
trying something out
a distorted image of a person in front of a bandshell stage outdoors
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jake @jake.fun · 28/12/2024
ai sends me down rabbit holes that don't even exist while it hurls our planet into the sun.
screenshot of terminal that says:

[main feed903] i know more than claude does, i wish i could remember that. fixed steganography
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
➜  public-library git:(main) git push
Enumerating objects: 11, done.
Counting objects: 100% (11/11), done.
Delta compression using up to 14 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
Writing objects: 100% (6/6), 734 bytes | 734.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 6 (delta 5), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (5/5), completed with 5 local objects.
To https://github.com/another-machine/public-library.git
   f8b1ebb..feed903  main -> main
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jake @jake.fun · 26/12/2024
there’s having an idea and hiring ppl to see what they come up with. then there’s building exactly what you want to see. working with ai today is the former not the latter.
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jake @jake.fun · 22/12/2024
Honestly, as shocking as Claude can be, it's just not there yet. I wrote good code originally, then spent all day yesterday polluting it with generated code trying to make it more sophisticated, and am now pulling it all back out to write the complex bits myself. Exhausting.
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jake @jake.fun · 07/12/2024
The Cameron Winter album that came out today is a work of art. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xee_...
youtube.com
Love Takes Miles
YouTube video by Cameron Winter
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jake @jake.fun · 06/12/2024
i had a three year old project go off like a month ago. bit of a nailbiter…
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jake @jake.fun · 06/12/2024
getting in and out of hn homepage unscathed is quite a rush
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jake @jake.fun · 05/12/2024
thank you for this!
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Samuel @samuel.fm · 04/12/2024
how it feels to do UI design without a designer
GUls can get busy, and so it is important to save as much space as possible. To this end, we have employed the very best in square packing technology to make sure all of your item slots take as little space as possible.

Screenshots of a Minecraft mod where the squares are packed in really awkwardly using the mathematically optimal square packing layout
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jake @jake.fun · 05/12/2024
inputmode=“numeric” or “decimal” sound lovely until you need negative numbers 🥴
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jake @jake.fun · 05/12/2024
looking at people’s total minutes in spotify wrapped realizing i’m in way too many meetings
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jake @jake.fun · 04/12/2024
NOW That’s What I Call a Ratio 2024
close up screenshot of my bluesky bio that says, “584 followers, 584 following”
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jake @jake.fun · 01/12/2024
on my latest personal work the last 10% is literally 300% and counting.
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jake @jake.fun · 01/12/2024
there are still many folks doing authoritative and respectable work, i just can’t help but feel we have swapped out a sense of community that naturally rises out of shared curiosity and awe for transactional relationships that require continual renewal and appeasement.
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jake @jake.fun · 01/12/2024
i don’t know how to prove it but i’m convinced the idea of web “community” has shifted over the past decade from people exploring the immense wealth of the net together to a select few anointing their own authority and accumulating followings by slinging transient hot takes.
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jake @jake.fun · 01/12/2024
my flavor of adhd is hard because stillness is not restful. getting in the groove is fulfilling but can lead to overwork. once i’m focused, creating space to redirect my energy is overwhelming and always abrupt.
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jake @jake.fun · 01/12/2024
i keep it external too. it’s hard to keep track of what i’m doing when it’s constantly present.
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jake @jake.fun · 30/11/2024
trying to leverage ai to make my coding life easier but still can’t shake the sense that i’m introducing bugs when generating anything larger than a function. refactoring is where i need it most but that’s also where i trust it the least due to my experiences thus far.
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jake @jake.fun · 26/11/2024
well the simple answer is that i want to stop using large dependencies too lol
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jake @jake.fun · 26/11/2024
i used claude the other day to help me write some net new web component stuff. it wasn’t bad. took some handholding. since i’m still learning a lot in that space it was nice to lean on. had i already been an expert it probably would have been immensely frustrating.
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jake @jake.fun · 26/11/2024
i don’t want to compile web code ever again. typescript is the only thing left keeping me from going full nilla.
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jake @jake.fun · 23/11/2024
It's tiny, but can be rendered nicely with image-rendering: pixelated in CSS. Anyway, here is the configuration of the instrument in that video.
Small pixelated image with colorful rectangular shapes in a grid that are a lo fidelity representation of the step sequencer in the original post.
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jake @jake.fun · 23/11/2024
that image floating in top is actually the save format. this is a static web application without a backend. unless you consider png images to be a backend…
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jake @jake.fun · 23/11/2024
i’m really excited about this thing. not too long now…
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jake @jake.fun · 21/11/2024
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️
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jake @jake.fun · 20/11/2024
Spent some quality time with @aussie.bsky.social IRL last night. Experiencing goodness always feels like a reminder of how hard it can be to find time for it as you get older. Deeply thankful for the buddies.
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jake @jake.fun · 17/11/2024
god grant me the patience of a united club worker keeping the area around the ladled ranch dressing bucket presentable
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jake @jake.fun · 17/11/2024
Airport club people watching is on another level. Men in full business attire parading around like waiting for an airplane is a serious endeavor while holding a stack of like seven large cookies.
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jake @jake.fun · 17/11/2024
Staffing the @figma.com booth at React Summit and giving a lightning talk about collaboration on Tuesday. If you’re around for the festivities, come say hey!
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jake @jake.fun · 17/11/2024
it’s a lot more complex than where i got in that video too…still trying to find the time to get it to that first release.
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jake @jake.fun · 17/11/2024
let’s hang monday, nyc!
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jake @jake.fun · 17/11/2024
great book, i have one. well worth it at full price let alone with the huge discount! historic work.
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