Jordan
jwald3.bsky.social
Jordan
@jwald3.bsky.social
Building Off The Bench, a sports stats and analytics application powered by AI

https://github.com/jwald3
Big number 300 in the books! I'm loving this year so far.
February 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Never, and I mean ever, add a company page to your LinkedIn profile unless you need to. I get solicitors daily for an app I'm still working on lol
February 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
😔
January 27, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The extreme intellectual dishonesty around AGI/ASI on social media is insane. I'd like to be hopeful that technology continues to improve lives, but so much of the pushback on skepticism is willingly obtuse
January 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Anyone else getting a ton of random Github followers lately? I'm definitely not complaining, but it's very random!
January 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I really need to find some Go mentorship; I want to get great at this language
January 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
One of the smartest people I work with was plugging Svelte.

Sigh, here we go learning Svelte
January 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Obligatory "green squares aren't everything," but it's a sign (mostly to myself) that I'm keeping productive and staying on top of things. I'm well over 20% of the way to what I did in 2024 (in not even a month) and almost 10% of the way to my best (2022). It's going to be a good year.
January 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Clerk really boned me with these breaking changes. It's like everything in this app came loose after giving it a rest for a week or two
January 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
That “what’s your most millennial complaint” viral tweet really highlighted how insane that run between 2010-2019 was
January 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I just reserved my seat to go to VS Live for work! I'm pretty excited to be going to my very first conference.
January 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Over 100 files changed in my big refactor at work. I’m sure there’s much bigger, but whew, there’s a lot of tech debt lol
January 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Stack Overflow: How to go fork yourself

(I needed to fork my Go REST template)
January 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Completely forgot, but last Friday was the two year anniversary of getting my first job in tech. It took tons of grinding, applying everywhere, and probably some wasted effort, but I’m glad I got this far!
January 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Really wishing I finished refactoring my work project before everyone got back from the holidays. I have a bad feeling there’s no free lunch when it comes to everyone ignoring their inboxes for two weeks
January 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Reposted by Jordan
For the next 6 months:

• Pick a product idea.
• Build a simple MVP to test it.
• Use social media to gain attention.
• Share the journey of your process.
• Grow your personal brand.

Your life will be changed forever.
January 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I want to finally level up and begin using Go as my preferred API language.

I’ve created a template on my GitHub that I’m going to constantly update as I learn more about the language. Check it out!
January 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Finally unveiled my “soft rewrite” of a major project at work and the senior dev was totally game. Feels good
December 30, 2024 at 11:51 PM
It's just a little toy project, but I'm pretty stoked that I got `linknom.ad for my link shortener domain. Feels like a good one!
December 29, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Do NOT forget to turn off your cron jobs when your site is inactive
December 28, 2024 at 9:40 PM
So it turns out the script I wrote for Off The Bench was 20k tokens. I was burning $15+ a day on scheduled calls!

Finally rewriting it and now I have it down to ~5000.
December 27, 2024 at 1:19 PM
“Just rewrite it” fever coming on too strong with this project at work. Complexity for complexity’s sake (from previous developers) made this thing into a rats nest
December 4, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Turns out that the guy I was hired to replace at my company was a total Jekyll and Hyde 10x developer. That would’ve been fun to witness
December 3, 2024 at 8:34 PM
In this project, I’ve implemented:

- Caching
- Message queues
- Cronjobs
- Tailwindcss

Either more completely or for the first time altogether. This is a level-up project if I’ve ever seen one

#buildinpublic
December 2, 2024 at 12:21 PM