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@jdan.me
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Author of the critically-acclaimed "Harry Potter" series of children's fantasy novels

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jordan @jdan.me · 28/09/2026
“Peanut butter” notes.jordanscales.com/peanut-butter
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Peanut butter
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...
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jordan @jdan.me · 24/09/2026
It's amazing how quickly I am becoming this guy
Brad Pitt's character Ben Rickert in "The Big Short"
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jordan @jdan.me · 12/09/2026
Hahahah
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jordan @jdan.me · 12/09/2026
I made a lil FIRE Simulator fire.jordanscales.com
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FIRE Simulator
A Monte Carlo FIRE simulator for exploring portfolio survival over time.
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jordan @jdan.me · 09/09/2026
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jordan @jdan.me · 06/09/2026
Flashcards the hard way notes.jordanscales.com/20260906-fla...
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Flashcards the hard way
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...
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jordan @jdan.me · 06/09/2026
Four colorful 3D-printed topographic city maps mounted side by side in a black frame on a beige wall.

From left to right
1. Hoboken, NJ
2. Lake Toya, Hokkaido, Japan
3. Nakano City, Tokyo, Japan
4. Okutama, Tokyo, Japan
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jordan @jdan.me · 05/09/2026
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jordan @jdan.me · 04/09/2026
I've had access to GPT Astra for a few months now. Sorry, but Grok blows it out of the water. Tried to have Astra write me an epic vulgar roast about Mr. Beast and it wasn't funny at all 😑 Grok? Had me and the entire Imagine Dragons Discord on the floor laughing 🤣
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jordan @jdan.me · 04/09/2026
“Rogue agents” notes.jordanscales.com/rogue
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Rogue agents
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...
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jordan @jdan.me · 01/09/2026
Woah what a great idea
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jordan @jdan.me · 01/09/2026
I've gotten super into 3D printing landscapes of places that are important to me. Here's Okutama and Fukuoka. They're interchangeable magnetic tiles.
Wall-mounted 3D topographic city map with green terrain, white buildings, blue waterways, and a black frame.
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jordan @jdan.me · 30/08/2026
Thanks :) they’re so fun to make in this silly little stack language I’m building
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jordan @jdan.me · 30/08/2026
“Game of Life Tower” notes.jordanscales.com/gol-tower
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Game of Life Tower
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...
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jordan @jdan.me · 30/08/2026
notes.jordanscales.com/98-css-refle...
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Reflections on 98.css
On April 16, 2020 I wrote the first commit for what would become 98.css. I’m really proud with how it turned out for reasons technical and non-technical, and...
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jordan @jdan.me · 30/08/2026
It brings me great joy to see a windows 98 UI on the web and it has my trademark box-shadows in its CSS
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jordan @jdan.me · 24/08/2026
unfortunately no more API :(((
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jordan @jdan.me · 24/08/2026
It's been a month and I'm happy to report that my 4th and final attempt to switch to Apple Music has been successful. The only annoying part is sending links to friends who still expect Spotify.
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jordan @jdan.me · 22/08/2026
omg there are so many typos LOL
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jordan @jdan.me · 22/08/2026
king
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jordan @jdan.me · 22/08/2026
LOL I didn't realize I did a typo until @jonnie.com also pointed it out. Fixed
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jordan @jdan.me · 22/08/2026
OOPS
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jordan @jdan.me · 22/08/2026
Did some hand-coding today notes.jordanscales.com/discs
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Discs
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...
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jordan @jdan.me · 22/08/2026
"Estimates" notes.jordanscales.com/estimates
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Estimates
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....
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jordan @jdan.me · 21/08/2026
i absolutely cooked today (with you in mind)
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jordan @jdan.me · 21/08/2026
[EXCLUSIVE] Leaked audio from SpaceXAI all-hands meeting
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jordan @jdan.me · 19/08/2026
i do it for you my friend
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jordan @jdan.me · 16/08/2026
performative spaced repetition
a nintendo 3DS running home brew flashcards software 

the text “Anki” reads at the top and the card is a map with the country of Iran highlighted
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jordan @jdan.me · 16/08/2026
notes.jordanscales.com/shader-stack
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ShaderStack
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...
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jordan @jdan.me · 16/08/2026
I'm shocked at how much I love Aerospace (github.com/nikitabobko/...). I haven't even configured it - the defaults are perfect.
github.com
GitHub - nikitabobko/AeroSpace: AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS - nikitabobko/AeroSpace
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jordan @jdan.me · 13/08/2026
www.maptap.gg August 13 99🎯 93🏆 100🎯 91👑 85😁 Final score: 920 sighhhhhhhhhhh
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jordan @jdan.me · 11/08/2026
www.onionlabs.net/products/yam... www.onionlabs.net/products/rai...
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Yamanote Line PBT Keycap Set - 27 Keys
"All aboard, the train is now departing the station!" A 27pc special set of keycaps from ONIONLABS designed around the iconic Yamanote Line in Tokyo, Japan. Specifications Number of keys: 27-keys Mate...
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jordan @jdan.me · 11/08/2026
I love my new keycaps
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jordan @jdan.me · 08/08/2026
Funny enough I originally posted this on LinkedIn
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jordan @jdan.me · 08/08/2026
notes.jordanscales.com/coffee
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I recently sat down for coffee with one of my oldest friends in the industry.
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...
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jordan @jdan.me · 03/08/2026
some damn good css my friend
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jordan @jdan.me · 01/08/2026
jdanwire.jordanscales.com
Screenshot of the jdanwire music library showing 15 FLAC tracks from “Crydamoure Presents Waves II,” with columns for title, artist, size, format, and bitrate, plus genre, artist, and album filters and an empty playback queue.
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jordan @jdan.me · 26/07/2026
hehe nothing at all! just wanted a theme for the app and chikamasu is almost a pun for chikatetsu
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jordan @jdan.me · 25/07/2026
Try my dumb daily math game chikamasu.jordanscales.com チカマス 2026-07-25 🟩🟩🟨🟩🟩 🚃 0:52 · 1 transfer
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Chikamasu — One Stop Behind
A daily, 30-stop mental math game inspired by Tokyo's Yamanote Line.
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jordan @jdan.me · 21/07/2026
I cannot stress enough how much mileage I've gotten out of a single Hetnzer instance ($6/mo), free Netlify plan, and pointing codex at a public/private key pair. This AM: 1. "Deploy a phpBB instance" 2. "Deploy a minecraft bedrock server"
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jordan @jdan.me · 17/07/2026
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jordan @jdan.me · 13/07/2026
I had such a good time at Saizeriya that it may have ruined my life
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jordan @jdan.me · 13/07/2026
My version of AI psychosis is that I’m always on edge reading a blog post because it might be written by a robot
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jordan @jdan.me · 11/07/2026
Doing things that shouldn't be done
Languages chart showing Lean 50.0% and Ruby 50.0%, represented by equal gray and dark red segments.
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jordan @jdan.me · 08/07/2026
the whole franchise is just a series of “wouldn’t it be sick if…”s
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jordan @jdan.me · 08/07/2026
unsurprisingly the DOOM: The Dark Ages DLC is sick as hell
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jordan @jdan.me · 03/07/2026
of course!
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jordan @jdan.me · 03/07/2026
Zachtronics games answer the simple question: what if a computer was miserably difficult to program store.steampowered.com/app/2536720/...
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Save 10% on U.V.S. Nirmana on Steam
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...
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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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jordan @jdan.me · 27/06/2026
Handheld devices were better when syncing data over the internet was an intentional decision. You couldn't send my palm pilot a "notification" - what a ridiculous premise.
A small Palm OS Emulator window showing the HotSync app. The screen has “Welcome.” near the top, tabs labeled “Local” and “Modem,” and a central sync icon with red and blue arrows above the label “Cradle/Cable.” At the bottom are “Log” and “Help” buttons.
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