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jen downs
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i’m a new mom & a front-end web developer~ 🌸
i like riding my bike, long hikes, video games, and the indie web 🌱

my links jendowns.com
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NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani looking cool as hell in some shades 😎
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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yesterday's theme was "blink"... so i made an ode to blinkies

weird.jen.dev/blink

(obligatory shoutout to Blinkies Cafe, where you can make your own blinkies: blinkies.cafe)
screenshot of a fake Windows XP operating system window, titled "da blinkies" and featuring 10 different blinkies. 1. a gray blinkie with an old Windows logo 2. a pink blinkie that says "Y2K-compliant" 3. a red blinkie with Tangy from Animal Crossing that says "FRUIT 4 the FRUIT GOD" 4. a pink blinkie featuring Eevee that says, you guessed it, "EEVEE!" 5. a gray blinkie that says "Nintendo 64" with the n64 logo 6. a blue blinkie that says "Playstation girl" with the playstation logo 7. a glittery forest with a rainbow 8. a blinkie with light blue sky and clouds that says "i dream in pixels" 9. green blinkie that says "Forest Walker" 10. purple blinkie with a picture of Kate Bush and her name 11. "I NEED Coffee!" blinkie 12. bookworm blinkie PHEW
October 11, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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for day 10 of Weird Web October (weirdweboctober.website), the theme was "warning"

so i made it about my hatred of crows (trash birds, sorry!)

weird.jen.dev/warning
dithered photo of a crow eating ritz crackers out of the gutter. a big red arrow is pointing at him. he has TWO crackers stuffed in that beak. does his greed know no bounds?
October 11, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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me when i’m tired:

slap a plink cat on an offline page & call it a night
screenshot from a website with a heading that says “offline!!” followed by text that says “i’ve taken this site down while i move it off of Next.js (🤢)” and a close-up picture of a cat staring directly into the camera.
September 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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September 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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fair warning 😤
a cute fawn stares directly at the camera. text reads: “i am both dumber and smarter than you think. do not estimate me”
September 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Congrats!!

btw on mobile, it looks like article cards with long titles get clipped (screenshot is from iOS Safari)

imo, an easy fix could be to add a line clamp style to the article titles, similar to the line clamp style already on the article excerpts
screenshot from iOS Safari showing the rogue.site website homepage. one article card has some contents cut off, and i circled this in the screenshot.
September 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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it’s super easy to get to the new Marymoor light rail station on the East Lake Sammamish Trail expansion!! and the bike & walk trail goes under the 520, so i didn’t have to interact with all that traffic.

📍Redmond, WA
i took a selfie on the East Lake Sammamish bike & walk trail. there’s two paved lanes extending behind me, with a passenger train track on one side and trees on the other. photo shows how the East Lake Sammamish Trail goes under highway 520 and follows the passenger light rail line. sign shows that Bear Creek park and ride is 1 mile away, Marymoor village station is 0.5 miles away, and Marymoor park is 1 mile away Marymoor village station in the background. the East Sammamish River Trail winds off into the distance. the foreground has a sign from Redmond city, advertising the trail for “bike, roll, or stroll”
August 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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the oracle has finally revealed my fate: “time spliced”
screenshot of Bluesky interface showing my username and 3 labels below it: bard, swashbuckler, and time spliced
July 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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i’m building a silly site that is a stylized desktop with draggable windows (i know, *sooo* original)

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some windows i've added so far include a little bsky timeline that pulls my latest posts & also a travel photo log.

no sure where i'm going with this, but it's been fun so far.
Screenshot of a website that looks like a simplistic, stylized desktop with light pink windows. The "my bsky feed" window displays the latest bluesky posts from me. The "travel photos & notes" window shows some photos taken in Vienna, including a shiny white & red tram, a street with some bicycles in the foreground and colorful buildings in the background, and an angled photo of the fresco on the roof of the marble hall in the Upper Belvedere Palace. The last window is a small one called "current status" that shows some things I'm doing in Spring 2025: reading Careless People, playing Kingdom Come Deliverance II, building silly things like this website, and watching cherry blossoms.
April 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Post a warning
Sign taped to a window that reads "WARNING!" in red text, followed by "Aggressive Crows Above City Hall Entrance. Be Advised! Crows May Dive Down and Harass"
March 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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left a eyeondesign.aiga.org page open in another tab.

hours later, it's filled with eyeballs
👁️👄👁️
Screenshot of webpage on AIGA's Eye on Design website that is completely covered and obscured with their logo: a minimalist eyeball. Like literally hundreds and hundreds of eyeball logos.
March 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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i really like how review comment threads are structured in GitLab

also specifically having a quick action to "create issue to resolve thread" is great UX
screenshot from a GitLab code review showing a button to "Resolve thread" and then another button to "Create issue to resolve thread"
March 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM