iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 05/10/2026

My god this tech is flawless

AI prompt saying "Watching silently — I’ll only message you when QA responds or something needs you." and then later "(No change — staying silent per your instruction.)"

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 10/03/2025

I don’t think Apple News understands what blocking means

Apple News “top stories” page with a story by an outlet I blocked. Instead of not showing the story, It just is grayed out with a “you blocked this channel” message over the thumbnail

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 29/12/2024

Trek is designed with sharing and collaboration in mind. Frequently, I’ve either asked or answered the question, “Where should I go in this city?” Trek is built to be the solution to this question. Whether making a list of places at home or abroad, Trek is your place for your places. 2/3

A title “Share a link to your place with anyone” above a preview of the trek app for a list named “Nice”. Includes a map view of the “Nice” list with a bunch of pins on the map.

A title “Collaborate with friends or partners” above a preview of the trek app for a place called “Roseleaf bar cafe”. Includes a card saying “added by jake about 1 month ago”, and a couple notes by different users on the quality of the service and drinks.

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 29/12/2024

I’ve been on the road for six months, exploring some of the most stunning places on earth. I created an app, Trek, that I wish I had sooner to keep track of all the amazing places I’ve been and the ones I still want to visit. letstrek.app 1/3

A title, “Make lists of your favorite places”, above a preview of the trek app with a list titled “Nice”, a thumbnail photo of a beach, and a description of a trip in the past. It’s a description of the kinds of places the list contains

A title “remember your experience with notes” above a preview of the trek app. Includes a photo of a teapot and a cocktail, a place named “Roseleaf bar cafe” and two comments by different trek users.

A title “Group by tags to make places easier to find” above a preview of the trek app’s “Add a place” form. The form includes an address field, a place name field, and a picker to choose up to 3 tags for a place. The tags chosen are “Food”, “Drinks”, and “Dessert”.

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 26/12/2024

Something fun coming soon 🦜

Screenshot of an app called “trek” with a list view and a preview of a list called “Nice” with a description of “from my trip in October 2024…”

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 24/12/2024

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:

Louise, Gene, and Tina from the show “Bob’s Burgers”, outside the restaurant playing music. Gene is playing a keyboard and the others are playing music with their straws as they pull them in and out of their drink cups

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 16/12/2024

Not quite done with setting free tier limits, but it sure feels good to have my first ever production payment and membership go through (even if it’s mine) 🙈 Having never set up payments before from scratch, it’s been a journey. #buildinpublic

A membership settings page for my app, “Trek” showing a “Membership” heading with a “premium” badge next to it, indicating someone is a premium member.

A payments dashboard. Showing a set of charts, with payments on the y axis, showing payments over time. At the far right side of the chart is a single uptick from 0 to $2.99, showing a first purchase.

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 10/12/2024

Little rebuild of playtrample.com in React Native/Expo of slowly but surely coming together! Spent some time on the "getting started" guide experience today! Really just working towards a functionally complete V1 before I circle back and work on polish (like the modal experience) #buildinpublic

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 22/11/2024

Inching closer to a beta release to some friends on my side project 🕺🦜

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 20/11/2024

Spent the last 2 days reading DOM stacking context articles and tutorials and my response: z-index++

Meme of car salesman pitching a car to a prospective customer with caption "*slaps roof of DOM* this baby can fit so many z-index temporary fixes in it"

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 20/11/2024

Yesterday, in my spare time, I started rebuilding my beloved (and neglected) playtrample.com for native using @expo.dev, and it's been going well! Nothing in the game _works_ yet, but the pieces are coming together! #buildinpublic

A screenshot of my game, with the all the major pieces in place. It's a daily word game with a word up top (the "active word"), a letter bank at the bottom, and a set of actions you can take on the active word like replacing a letter, inserting a letter, or deleting a letter

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 12/11/2024

Got this bad boi right before sending the "this project is ready for QA" message. I guess I'll just go kick rocks instead of enjoying my evening.

"Error: hydration failed because the initial UI does not match what was rendered on the server." A common error with server-side rendering in react/nextjs that makes me angrier every time I see it

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 10/11/2024

Reminded today that I’m not cut out to drink whiskey

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 05/11/2024

I haven't used the bird site in a long time, but I've always kept it around so I could find accounts I used to follow. I was waiting for some other platform to feel good enough and today I used the chrome extension to find most of my old friends here and finally deactivated 🥳

Goodbye message from deactivating Twitter account "Your account is deactivated."

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 05/11/2024

I always find myself changing the default rem spacing units to px. I don't usually want my spacing units between UI to grow when users scale font sizes github.com/tailwindlabs...

Tailwind config object theme.spacing showing the rem units of 0 to 2 being adapted to their raw pixel values

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 30/10/2024

Can't let a project go by without causing yet another z-index bug

A "zipcode" text input floating of the top of a sticky footer, when it's supposed to be hiding behind the sticky footer, as it was scrolled out of view

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