jordan

@jdan.me

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

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

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.

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

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

The trans flag with a greek lowecase lambda letter in black on it.

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.”

A screenshot of https://web.archive.org/web/20120501201929/http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

Bootstrap, from Twitter

The landing page from 1 May 2012

I have had so much success with pointing codex at a private key and saying “deploy this repo” So many old projects coming online

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