Jordan

Jordan

@jwald3.bsky.social

Building Off The Bench, a sports stats and analytics application powered by AI https://github.com/jwald3

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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

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

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.

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!

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

Jordan reposted

Jordan reposted

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.

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!

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.

“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

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

Might actually implement a message queue for this app. It’s a simple app (hop on, generate a projection, profit), but it’s quickly becoming the most sophisticated system I’ve built

The little green squares aren't everything, but I'm glad that I'm back to getting some activity on my Github. It'll be my least "green" year since I started programming, but that's okay!

Created some sweet middleware to retrieve cached data in my app. I think I’m starting to get to the point where diagramming the system makes sense #buildinpublic

It's been an incredibly long time since I've had a project that I've missed sleep over due to excitement. I'm loving this complete zen I've found in this app

I’m going to make an interface where you can “ask a question” and it’ll pull the data to answer it. Need to workshop it, but it’ll be so much easier on mobile

This is my first time building an app with cron jobs and it's insane how much of my process has been streamlined by things I don't even have to touch. I officially feel like I'm in the "automate the boring stuff" territory