Jason Eckert
@jasoneckert
Aside from being 98% chimp, I do stuff @ triOS College, write textbooks for various publishers, collect vintage computers, and restore classic arcade machines.
- triOS College
- Ontario, Canada
- jasoneckert.github.io
- github.com/jasoneckert
- Joined October 2026
Commit activity
37 commits in the last 30 days
longest streak 22 dayscurrent 22
1,571 / 2,500 XP929 XP to root
Today
Yesterday
When you tell it to double check things, then it iterates it into Czech, twice over.
Thu, Nov 5
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a workstation.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
git reset --hard
When Ctrl+z won't do
I'd like to see development accurately depicted in movies.
A team is trying to build a system that will save the world, but the builds keep failing. Someone keeps adding to the scope. And the project manager is asking for an update every 15 min.
Wed, Nov 4
Is this a new donation model? Server payments instead of financial contributions?
Tue, Nov 3
As a developer, I will spend $300+ on a mechanical keyboard that makes a specific sound that I like and then use it with $400+ noise cancelling headphones, just because.
As a developer, I will try all the ways to run a AAA game in my i5 Lenovo iPad, even though I have a mac ...
As a developer, I will gladly buy a $4000 MacBook Pro Max Ultra, and spend $20 on quality coffee, because I need it for work, but absolutely refuse to pay $4 for good quality bread that I need not to starve to death, simply because I think it's overpriced.
Mon, Nov 2
Sun, Nov 1
Sat, Oct 31
Tonight, we turn back the regular clocks 1 hour.
But I have three binary clocks and a binary watch. For those, I just have to turn them back a bit.
Fri, Oct 30
Fun fact: If you heat your solid state drive into a gaseous state, you get cloud storage.
Thu, Oct 29
It’s adorable how some devs act like they didn’t write slop code before AI
Wed, Oct 28
Tech startup-themed escape room:
- You're placed in a room.
- There is a wheel in the middle of the room.
- Your challenge is to leave the room without reinventing it. It works fine. It's a perfectly good wheel.
- The door is unlocked. You have 1 hour. Good luck.
Plot twist: the door is unlocked, but the team spends the hour debating whether to build a custom door framework. 😄
I'd fail, 40 minutes in and I am building a wheel framework with plugin support 😅
Tue, Oct 27
Genie: I'll give you one billion dollars if you can spend 100 million dollars in one week.
Me: OK.
Genie: But there are 3 rules: No gifting, no gambling, no throwing it away.
Me: Can I use AWS?
Genie: There are 4 rules...