jordan
@jdan.me
Author of the critically-acclaimed "Harry Potter" series of children's fantasy novels
Try my dumb daily math game chikamasu.jordanscales.com チカマス 2026-07-25 🟩🟩🟨🟩🟩 🚃 0:52 · 1 transfer
Chikamasu — One Stop Behind
A daily, 30-stop mental math game inspired by Tokyo's Yamanote Line.
chikamasu.jordanscales.com
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"
My version of AI psychosis is that I’m always on edge reading a blog post because it might be written by a robot
Zachtronics games answer the simple question: what if a computer was miserably difficult to program store.steampowered.com/app/2536720/...
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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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.
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
jdan's Tokyo subway station icon 3D models
CAD files for making Tokyo train iconography and signage
trains.jordanscales.com
bought my son #fortnite as a reward for a month of gratitude journaling. does anyone know if this game has a #christianity mode?
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
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.
Hello
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...
notes.jordanscales.com
The past years have seen horrendous attacks towards trans people. We have a duty to protect the most vulnerable members of our communities. There is no Haskell without the trans people who have shaped it through the years. This June is a month of celebrations, but the struggle continues. ✊🏳️⚧️λ
My father-in-law is an old school web developer. We were visiting the old Bootstrap landing page a few years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… “We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.”
This demo is so good. Try it today.
The full Dittori will have hundreds of meticulously designed puzzles, each designed to be unique, surprising and memorable. You can try mastering a few of them today in the demo, now available on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4311980/...
Today's randomly generated element is Caluriumium with an atomic weight of 428.27 hash.jordanscales.com/element/Thur...
element | hash.jordanscales.com
seed: Thursday, 28 May 2026
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I have had so much success with pointing codex at a private key and saying “deploy this repo” So many old projects coming online
I bought this stamp which can be rearranged to any calendar I want. It is very silly.
jdan-ai-2.3B has achieved a new record score of 99.8 on jdan-ai-bench, beating out cursor by a whopping 40 points