jordan @jdan.me · 04/10/2026Missing her en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oku-Tam...en.wikipedia.orgOku-Tama Station - Wikipedia 060
jordan @jdan.me · 28/09/2026“Peanut butter” notes.jordanscales.com/peanut-butternotes.jordanscales.comPeanut butterYears 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... 020
jordan @jdan.me · 12/09/2026I made a lil FIRE Simulator fire.jordanscales.comfire.jordanscales.comFIRE SimulatorA Monte Carlo FIRE simulator for exploring portfolio survival over time. 120
jordan @jdan.me · 06/09/2026Flashcards the hard way notes.jordanscales.com/20260906-fla...notes.jordanscales.comFlashcards the hard way6 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... 061
jordan @jdan.me · 04/09/2026I'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 🤣 1441
jordan @jdan.me · 04/09/2026“Rogue agents” notes.jordanscales.com/roguenotes.jordanscales.comRogue agentsAn 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... 040
jordan @jdan.me · 01/09/2026I've gotten super into 3D printing landscapes of places that are important to me. Here's Okutama and Fukuoka. They're interchangeable magnetic tiles. 1211
jordan @jdan.me · 30/08/2026Thanks :) they’re so fun to make in this silly little stack language I’m building 010
jordan @jdan.me · 30/08/2026“Game of Life Tower” notes.jordanscales.com/gol-towernotes.jordanscales.comGame of Life TowerThis 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... 1222
jordan @jdan.me · 30/08/2026notes.jordanscales.com/98-css-refle...notes.jordanscales.comReflections on 98.cssOn 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... 050
jordan @jdan.me · 30/08/2026It brings me great joy to see a windows 98 UI on the web and it has my trademark box-shadows in its CSS 3200
jordan @jdan.me · 24/08/2026It'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. 3110
jordan @jdan.me · 22/08/2026LOL I didn't realize I did a typo until @jonnie.com also pointed it out. Fixed 110
jordan @jdan.me · 22/08/2026Did some hand-coding today notes.jordanscales.com/discsnotes.jordanscales.comDiscsThis 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... 160
jordan @jdan.me · 22/08/2026"Estimates" notes.jordanscales.com/estimatesnotes.jordanscales.comEstimatesI 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.... 3181
jordan @jdan.me · 16/08/2026notes.jordanscales.com/shader-stacknotes.jordanscales.comShaderStackI’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... 0162
jordan @jdan.me · 16/08/2026I'm shocked at how much I love Aerospace (github.com/nikitabobko/...). I haven't even configured it - the defaults are perfect.github.comGitHub - nikitabobko/AeroSpace: AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOSAeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS - nikitabobko/AeroSpace 130
jordan @jdan.me · 13/08/2026www.maptap.gg August 13 99🎯 93🏆 100🎯 91👑 85😁 Final score: 920 sighhhhhhhhhhh 000
jordan @jdan.me · 11/08/2026www.onionlabs.net/products/yam... www.onionlabs.net/products/rai...onionlabs.netYamanote 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... 111
jordan @jdan.me · 08/08/2026notes.jordanscales.com/coffeenotes.jordanscales.comI 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... 29431
jordan @jdan.me · 26/07/2026hehe nothing at all! just wanted a theme for the app and chikamasu is almost a pun for chikatetsu 000
jordan @jdan.me · 25/07/2026Try my dumb daily math game chikamasu.jordanscales.com チカマス 2026-07-25 🟩🟩🟨🟩🟩 🚃 0:52 · 1 transferchikamasu.jordanscales.comChikamasu — One Stop BehindA daily, 30-stop mental math game inspired by Tokyo's Yamanote Line. 141
jordan @jdan.me · 21/07/2026I 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" 160
jordan @jdan.me · 13/07/2026My version of AI psychosis is that I’m always on edge reading a blog post because it might be written by a robot 0311
jordan @jdan.me · 03/07/2026Zachtronics games answer the simple question: what if a computer was miserably difficult to program store.steampowered.com/app/2536720/...store.steampowered.comSave 10% on U.V.S. Nirmana on SteamU.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... 370