Jordan Eldredge

I could imagine “mitigate brand risk” being a higher priority than “generate incremental brand value”

Perhaps it’s more that they feel posting does not provide value, but establishing an official account as a way of preventing others from claiming to be the official account does provide value.

Ah, yeah. I could see looking for something with a more modern style by default. I haven't even explored more modern Docusaurus themes yet.

Familiarity + no known limitations pushing me to look for alternatives. What am I missing out on?

Webamp, the NPM library, now has a proper docs site. If you've ever wanted to add a Webamp player to your site, now might be the time:

docs.webamp.org

React <ViewTransition /> is pretty good

Potentially relevant web.dev/articles/off...

Maybe inside the requestAnimationFrame callback we can check how much time has elapsed and skip doing anything unless enough time has elapsed?

How would moving it to a separate thread help with the timing?

Perfect. I can bind the “action” button on my phone to “buy a new phone”.

Nice little addition to the footer of my site

My old websites Sharing a hilarious collection of screenshots of websites I built as a kid

My old websites

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Teenagers making Winamp skins in 2025 Hack Club is running a program where teens who make a Winamp skin, and upload it to the Winamp Skin Museum, will be rewarded with a prize

Teenagers are making Winamp skins in 2025

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Testing Strategy | Grats This doc describes how Grats' own codebase is tested. It does not describe testing code written using Grats.

I've been very happy with Grats' testing strategy:

* Hundreds of fixture unit tests
* Dozens of fixture runtime integration tests
* All doc snippets compiled/validated at build time
* Example projects act as test suites

I wrote a docs page explaining how it works: grats.capt.dev/docs/faq/tes...

An SQL murder mystery A fun murder mystery in the format of an SQLite database

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{transitions} = f(state) Thinking about the React component tree as modeling a state machine can help clarify the implications of asynchronous updates and React’s concurrent features.

New blog post: Thinking about React as a state machine can help us reason about async state updates and React’s concurrent ceatures:

{transitions} = f(state)

jordaneldredge.com/blog/transit...

An ode to TypeScript enums Pouring one out for a fallen friend

I wrote about the main feature of @typescriptlang.org enums that I'm going to miss: TSDoc support on enum members. I hope the TypeScript team can port this over to union members as more folks migrate towards string unions instead of enums.

blog.disintegrator.dev/posts/ode-to...

I have it working with Grats. Example here:

github.com/captbaritone...

github.com/captbaritone...

More info: grats.capt.dev/docs/getting...

Did you know you can change the Archive.Org music player into "webamp?"

Opera singers refer to the bright or cutting quality of a voice as “squillo” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squillo

Developing this quality can be important to being able to project over an orchestra in a large opera house.

Oh cool! Such a lovely instrument. I have a few other ukulele things on my blog if she wants other ideas: jordaneldredge.com/tag/ukulele/

Kids on Youtube playing my ukulele arrangement Sharing and reflecting on four videos from Youtube of kids from Malaysia playing a simple ukulele arrangement I made in 2011

Over the last 10 years, four kids have recorded versions of a ukulele arrangement I wrote back in 2011

jordaneldredge.com/notes/kids-p...

Should be fixed now

Oh, thanks for flagging! Those links are supposed to work in addition to the slug URL. I’ll try to fix.

winamp screenshot

skins.webamp.org

The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes

Random reading of the day 🎁

"The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins", by @capt.dev

jordaneldredge.com/notes/corrup...

Sounds interesting! I know what tree sitter is, but what are tree sitter queries?

So good