(Jason) Gedge
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(Jason) Gedge
@gedge.ca
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👨‍💻 Unemployed, exploring everything.
🎼 Currently building https://github.com/thegedge/m8t
📽️ Live coding here: https://www.twitch.tv/thegedge
🕸️ Subscribe to my feed @ https://gedge.ca
📈 Be a little better each day
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
And now we're responsive! Not amazing — for example, things flicker because we don't track which parts of the screen to change and instead erase most of it — but we're headed there :)
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It's been a lot of fun to do this though. Currently tying up my implementation of something akin to a flex box on the web, and it feels good when you switch to `alignItems: "center"` and it works without any tweaking!
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Debugging layout algorithms and rendering for a TUI = plus signs, vertical bars, and hyphens everywhere
November 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
TFW you write out something correct and Cursor's autocomplete wants to rewrite it to something wrong.
October 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
TFW you're working on something to parse ANSI escape sequences and a failing test emits those escape sequences without the "reset" bit, so all of your terminal output is now a hyperlink
October 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I can't say this enough: we've wasted so many $$$ on garbage tech "innovation" and prob could have made life better for so many humans if we actually spent a small percentage of that money on things that more directly benefit people, paying back long-term.

Myopia is a primary bigwig trait though.
October 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Me asking Cursor's LLM chat to help me find undocumented functions 🤦‍♂️

I only post a small sample, but my experience with Cursor's chat is ~10% success, ~20% of "ugh, okay, I'll clean up the mess", and the rest is bad.

I continue to be shocked at Cursor's valuation. We've set the quality bar SO LOW.
October 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I don't know how I pulled it off, but really wanting to hit my sub-4 hour goal allowed me to go from ~5:50/km to ~5:20/km in the last few kilometres. I'd like to thank Dragonforce's "Through the fire and the flames" for the high-energy push on the home stretch.
October 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
literally no one:
cursor's autocomplete, if I were to "vibe":
October 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Saw this today when I (doom)scrolled through LinkedIn. This shouldn't be what we celebrate. If an employee at your company has to miss their once in a lifetime celebration, in my opinion, you've failed to build a company worth working for.

But, hey, at least the shareholders are happy, right?
October 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Seems like a huge oversight that `Array.isArray` doesn't narrow a readonly array type 🤔
October 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Another fun one today! Once I tidied up some CSS — font sizes and switching away from zoom to transform, in particular — I was able to quickly (just a couple of minutes!) create an overview mode for my presentation framework 🎉

I've been wanting this to quickly assess any (visually) broken slides.
September 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Spotify nailed the kind of Thursday morning vibe I'm looking for. I _know_ I can channel grandmother energy this morning.
September 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I just added a search feature to my website, entirely frontend, with a lazy-loaded index (<200kb gzipped). I had a lot of fun building it, even though it will probably never be used 🙃
September 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
September 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I have to eat basically an extra days worth of food today. HOW?!

BRB while I go bathe myself in tub full of bacon cheeseburgers.

(Jokes aside, I'm very proud of this run. It's my longest so far. I'm also very hungry.)
September 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Now that I've exceeded 60km / week of running, I am so frickin' hungry. Ravenous, even. Always. My body is sad, and I am trying to unsad it, but I don't know how.
September 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Sometimes I wonder if Cursor has intentionally built narcissism into everything 🤔
August 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
TFW when you learn one of your regular baristas thought you were nearly 20 years younger than what you really are.
August 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
How I wish I could correct that "they're" to "their" 😭
August 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Modern Web
August 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I at least appreciate the use of emoji 💪
July 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
July 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Well we all know where this goes
July 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM