jordan (@jdan.me)

jordan

@jdan.me

Author of the critically-acclaimed "Harry Potter" series of children's fantasy novels

13.5K followers 1K following989 posts

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19 Oct 2024

i’m collecting an army of some of the greatest posters go.bsky.app/KcbPrGj

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Missing her en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oku-Tam...

en.wikipedia.orgOku-Tama Station - Wikipedia

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“Peanut butter” notes.jordanscales.com/peanut-butter

notes.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...

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It's amazing how quickly I am becoming this guy

jordan

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12 Sept

I made a lil FIRE Simulator fire.jordanscales.com

fire.jordanscales.comFIRE SimulatorA Monte Carlo FIRE simulator for exploring portfolio survival over time.

Flashcards 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...

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 🤣

jordan

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4 Sept

“Rogue agents” notes.jordanscales.com/rogue

notes.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...

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1 Sept

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.

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30 Aug

“Game of Life Tower” notes.jordanscales.com/gol-tower

notes.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...

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30 Aug

It brings me great joy to see a windows 98 UI on the web and it has my trademark box-shadows in its CSS

jordan

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30 Aug

notes.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...

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24 Aug

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.

jordan

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22 Aug

Did some hand-coding today notes.jordanscales.com/discs

notes.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...

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22 Aug

"Estimates" notes.jordanscales.com/estimates

notes.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....

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21 Aug

[EXCLUSIVE] Leaked audio from SpaceXAI all-hands meeting

jordan

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16 Aug

performative spaced repetition

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16 Aug

notes.jordanscales.com/shader-stack

notes.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...

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16 Aug

I'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

jordan

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11 Aug

I love my new keycaps

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8 Aug

notes.jordanscales.com/coffee

notes.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...

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8 Aug

Funny enough I originally posted this on LinkedIn

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1 Aug

jdanwire.jordanscales.com

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25 July

Try my dumb daily math game chikamasu.jordanscales.com チカマス 2026-07-25 🟩🟩🟨🟩🟩 🚃 0:52 · 1 transfer

chikamasu.jordanscales.comChikamasu — One Stop BehindA daily, 30-stop mental math game inspired by Tokyo's Yamanote Line.

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21 July

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"

I had such a good time at Saizeriya that it may have ruined my life

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13 July

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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11 July

Doing things that shouldn't be done

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8 July

unsurprisingly the DOOM: The Dark Ages DLC is sick as hell

jordan

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8 July

the whole franchise is just a series of “wouldn’t it be sick if…”s

jordan

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3 July

Zachtronics 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...

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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.

jordan

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23 June

I've been 3D printing various Tokyo subway station icons, and have published my STL files for printing/remixing/inspiration. Check 'em out! trains.jordanscales.com

trains.jordanscales.comjdan's Tokyo subway station icon 3D modelsCAD files for making Tokyo train iconography and signage

jordan

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23 June

I'll probably make some keychains for myself (and publish a frame for doing so if I do!) but in the meantime feel free to make whatever your heart desires. The cool thing about good transit design is that these icons are bold, recognizable, and can fit whatever surroundings you wish.

jordan

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19 June

first multicolor print

jordan

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19 June

no half measures here

jordan

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21 June

will host STLs somewhere for these! maybe I’ll make a second “frame” which has a hole for a keychain

Have a seat

bought my son #fortnite as a reward for a month of gratitude journaling. does anyone know if this game has a #christianity mode?

jordan

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9 June

Me: Wow this AI agent made a pretty decent PR Guy who needs to 30X the number of tokens he sells by Q4: Dude you gotta run 30 of these

jordan

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7 June

I made a bunch of changes to notes.jordanscales.com including: converting an old JS codebase to TS, adding tests and test coverage for my 1200-line mess, optimizing images, a publishing webhook, and deploying to cloudflare pages. It should be quite fast! Let me know otherwise.