Jake Ouellette

@Jakeout
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Engineering @ Google & Firebase

Previously full-stack Software Engineer at Twitter,
Mobile build tools engineer for Crashlytics & Fabric.io, Data engineer for Answers.io—Background in data science.

Bloghttps://jakeout.com
Githubhttp://github.com/jakeouellette
Comicshttp://drawblanks.com

RE: https://social.coop/@scottjenson/115707071905814326

Great talk -- was in my YouTube recommendations, and I went to the effort to find Scott's post to quote post it

Happy #dosember! I made a textmode (ZZT) game, https://jakeout.itch.io/botdown, for a dos-themed game jam, inspired by that old flash game "motherload".

Kudos to @emmfoolery for organizing the jam. Lots more folks are also streaming old-school games if you're feeling nostalgic, at dosember.com

Botdown by jakeout

Imagine Steamworld Dig, but you're a mouse!

itch.io
The custodian of the Museum of ZZT, Dr. Dos, just spent over 170 dollars to secure a set of ZZT floppies, potentially containing not-yet-preserved initial releases of its registered worlds! If that's something you care about, please consider pledging support for his writing, streams and programming on the Museum of ZZT Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/c/worldsofzzt

The ZZT community means a lot to me, so I will be grateful if you support his efforts at keeping it going.

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Made a simulator of xkcd's Chess Zoo comic, check it out here: https://cadencecode.com/play/zooofchess

(Inspo: https://xkcd.com/3036/ )

Zoo of Chess web toy

Cadence & Code, LLC homepage

Setting up home-assistsnt on my old framework laptop turned into a home automation PC, what else should I install on this?

It's frustrating how many organisations are still using Twitter to announce important info to the public. There is no way for most people to see this info! Most people aren't on Twitter, and Twitter now requires a sign-on just to view profiles.

If you want to announce stuff to the public, the only way to make sure it's visible to everyone is to use your own website, your own blog, your own social media server. Anyone with an internet connection can see them.

#GrowYourOwn #SelfHosting #Twitter

When you Really Needed that coffee

Fascinating article on the culture in the Xbox division of msft

https://www.eurogamer.net/what-is-the-point-of-xbox

What is the point of Xbox?

Xbox has repeated the same terrible mistakes for over a decade. The reason is simple: its priorities are back-to-front.

Eurogamer.net

New blog post—Building Strong Teams: Trust From Day One

https://jakeout.com/posts/2024-04-30-trust-from-day-one

Building Strong Teams: Trust from day one

Blog and Homepage for Jake Ouellette

A semi-playable Doom demo I built for #FrontEndConf using CSS scroll timeline, a handful of checkboxes and has() selectors + a nice assist from image-rendering: pixelated.

Oh and no JS, as god intended.

https://codepen.io/cobra_winfrey/full/oNOMRav

Doom Scroll - Front End Conf 2024 Demo

Pure CSS scrollable Doom....