Years before I worked in tech, I worked in the food industry as a plant manager. “Scales. My office. Now.” the senior director barked at me. I stepped in and...

A Monte Carlo FIRE simulator for exploring portfolio survival over time.

6 September 2026 I have 2,291 Japanese flashcards in Anki as of Today. I study them every morning for about 10 minutes (along with some Geography cards and v...

An excerpt from a piece I was recently interviewed about regarding two rogue agents hacking into the server of a Fortune 100 company. Two of the agents, howe...

This sketch renders Conway’s Game of Life with a twist, each generation is a column on an ever-growing stack. The cells render on a torus so they wrap around...

This shader renders three discs that can be controlled by moving your mouse or tapping the screen. They overlap to produce different colors. For this sketch...

I recently called two of my best engineers into my office to chat about estimates. “How long do you expect this to take?” I asked, leaning back in my chair....

I’ve been working on a Concatenative Programming Language which compiles to GLSL for writing fragment shaders. You can play with it at shaders.jordanscales.c...

AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS - nikitabobko/AeroSpace

I recently sat down for coffee with one of my oldest friends in the industry. “How’s everything going?” I asked, “Crazy times right?” “We’re up to 1 million...

A daily, 30-stop mental math game inspired by Tokyo's Yamanote Line.

U.V.S. Nirmana is a engineering puzzle game from Coincidence, the creators of Kaizen: A Factory Story and the inventors of the Zach-like. Set off on the Unreturning Void Ship Nirmana as it continues a...

CAD files for making Tokyo train iconography and signage

This is a collection of notes I take in Notion. You can view the source on GitHub. I love receiving your mail. I also post on Bluesky. Here are some newer po...

seed: Thursday, 28 May 2026