Jerome Paulos

buying tickets to the elizabeth holmes movie

My son @jeromepaulos.com and I make a web tool that helps you find clean energy incentives and determines your eligibility, based on location and income. It's in use by 8 California CCAs and one REN. Here's how Ava Energy uses it to help customers participate in #DriveElectricMonth.

Wordle but it’s Zillow: realdle.jero.zone

Bitly is dedicated to making the internet a safer place...by intercepting links to show scammy phishing ads

My transit card collection finally has a permanent home

got a poster

Byte Magazine issues from 1980s are incredible

Tag search interface

The skeuomorphic one was a little too confusing, so I eventually replaced it with this more boring one:

I built this columnar interface for reading Hacker News comments: hzn.jero.zone

An unfinished Brown course catalog

The website is automatically deployed to the CS department's servers with SSH/rsync

This classic software engineering book has been checked out continuously since 1978. I penciled in my own due date since they haven't stamped books in a decade.

Another approach to unifying eclectic headshots

I set up a Discord webhook to ping me anytime an admissions officer looked at it. Carleton College tried guessing the URLs for Berkely (sic), UCLA, Macalester, Grinnell, Harvard, Yale, MIT, St. Olaf, Princeton, Pomona, and Haverford...

print your Linear tickets for the vibes

Look what showed up at the mailroom—thanks @nateparrott.bsky.social!

I pulled two all-nighters to 3D print a model of this building in Belgium, that I got to visit this summer: jero.zone/posts/cbr-bu...

*My* daily photo website is powered by the Notion API. And with my newly redesigned website, build times for all 600 photos are down to under a minute!

Out with the old, in with the new

*blink*

I made this Flintstones-inspired sign for the dinosaur-themed website of a course I'm TAing.

More from the course website

Query assignments with SQL on the website I made for the databases class I'm TAing next semester. Everything happens in the browser with Wasm SQLite.

(sound on)

WeWork passport stamps

Wallet has some of the most whimsical Apple design in iOS today, like this animated circle that shows how your tickets have changed

How many engineers does it take to ship a “plain HTML page?” Meta is clearly trying to copy the original ssi.inc website...but theirs weighs 847kB and comes with a cookie popup and some nasty layout shift.

“is tufts busy?” used hidden raspberry pi’s to intercept wifi probe requests and estimate how busy university buildings were built with @bighead.bsky.social, dan, and alex @ jumbohack in february

Google cleverly shows an “accessibility feedback” link when navigating with a keyboard. This technique is normally used to add a “skip link” to the main content that’s only visible to screen readers.

I recreated my BrownDesignWorkshop.org membership card the same way, showing my tool certifications.

I built this avatar effect using two CSS clipping paths