Jason Scheirer

Jason Scheirer

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Hi, I’m Jason Scheirer. I’m a professional programmer and in my free time I’m a hobbyist programmer. I write games, I make little web toys, I talk about the passage of time. If you’re quiet on a summer’s day you can hear me whispering about JavaScript on the cool breeze.

https://www.jasonscheirer.com/

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• Eleven Years in the Bay Area 2026-02-07 12:00am
• Steam on non-Conventional Desktops (Niri) 2026-01-17 12:00am
• Ollama on Fedora Linux on a Battlemage GPU 2026-01-14 12:00am
• Learn To Live With The Defaults 2026-01-03 12:00am
• If Your Electron App is "Just A Browser Wrapper" You're Doing It Wrong 2025-12-05 04:00pm
• A Series of Vignettes From My Childhood and Early Career 2025-11-26 04:00pm
• The Innioasis Y1 Music Player 2025-11-15 12:00am
• The Shanling M0s Music Player 2025-11-14 04:00pm
• What You Do and Who You Are 2025-10-29 01:08am
• I Don't Like that I Like Starship 2025-10-29 01:00am
• There and Back Again: My Journey Into (and out of) Tailwind 2025-07-22 05:00pm
• Here's The Interesting Part 2025-07-22 01:00am
• This Shouldn't Be Hard 2025-07-21 01:00am
• Chains: My Attempt at an Itertools for Go 2025-05-24 01:00am
• Hate What You Know 2025-05-17 01:00am
• Kicking the Tires on Harper 2025-05-15 01:00am
• The Wrong Conclusion 2025-05-14 11:00pm
• Throw your Team a Bone 2025-03-14 01:00am
• Give Yourself Little Treats Sometimes 2025-03-05 12:00am
• A Children's Treasury of Critiques and Concerns about the Current LLM Hype Cycle 2025-03-02 04:00pm
• You Need to Break the Rules 2025-03-01 12:00am
• Passively Transparent 2025-02-28 12:00am
• Be An Iceberg 2025-02-01 12:00am
• Tools I Use to Live My Glamorous Life 2024-12-13 04:00pm
• Classicube at Work 2024-11-20 08:00am
• Trying out PaperWM 2024-11-18 08:00am
• A Practical Guide to Self-Hosting a RAG 2024-07-07 01:00am
• Job #1 of Codebases is Onboardability 2024-05-02 01:55am
• Framework Syndrome: Solving Software Problems by Not Solving Them 2024-05-01 08:55pm
• I'm Not Participating in This Year's Advent of Code For Very Good Reasons 2023-12-03 12:00am
• Keeping Alive With Long-Running Sync Work in Python 2023-08-29 01:00am
• Registering Signs of Life in Long-Running Async Jobs in Python 2023-08-13 01:00am
• 2023: Linux on the Desktop This Year 2023-08-07 02:11am
• Hardware review: Anbernic RG35XX 2023-06-02 09:00am
• VS Code: Dark Terminal on a Light Theme 2023-05-28 09:00am
• Hardware review: Devterm 2023-03-16 09:00am
• Hardware review: 1st Gen SteamDeck (512GB) 2023-02-08 08:00am
• Hardware review: AOKZOE A1 2023-01-01 08:00am
• Hardware review: iPhone 13 Mini 2022-12-29 08:00am
• Mixed Async code in Sync Python: Disappointingly Simple 2022-09-23 01:00am
• Modern Python: New Features, Better Code 2022-09-15 01:00am
• The Anime Watcher: Another Game 2022-09-07 01:00am
• A Case for Match 2022-08-25 05:00pm
• Python as a Language is Inescabably Coupled with its Implementation Part 2: The Tracer 2022-08-09 05:00pm
• Trump Run: A Game 2022-07-25 01:00am
• Little Guys! A Puzzle Game Without Enough Levels 2022-07-24 01:00am
• Async programming: understanding it from fundamentals 2022-07-11 05:00pm
• Modern Python: Features I Haven't Used But Plan To 2022-07-11 01:00am
• Modern Python has Changed How I Code 2022-07-07 01:00am
• Python as a Language is Inescabably Coupled with its Implementation Part 1: LET'S DO DUMB SHIT WITH THE GC 2021-04-04 01:00am
• __all__ is a Sacred Space and you Murderous Goblins are all Profaning it 2021-03-31 01:00am
• ZPL-O-Rama Part 5: Postscript 2021-03-07 09:00pm
• ZPL-O-Rama Part 4: The Hardware 2021-03-07 08:00pm
• ZPL-O-Rama Part 3: Software 2021-03-07 07:00pm
• ZPL-O-Rama Part 2: Concepts and Architecture 2021-03-07 06:00pm
• ZPL-O-Rama Part 1: A personal/work project (Introduction) 2021-03-07 04:00pm
• The Shanling Q1 Music Player 2021-02-20 04:00pm
• SFTP is still around and that's OK 2021-02-18 08:00am
• You Don't Need to Make That Temporary File, Dude 2021-02-12 08:00am
• Trying out Rectangle 2021-02-08 08:00am
• The 2020s and the Post-Office World 2021-02-08 07:00am
• Pinebook Pro: The Tinkering Laptop 2021-01-19 12:11pm
• My Dingus Chromebook still works 2020-02-10 01:11am
• Five Years in the Bay Area 2020-02-08 06:25am
• Own Your Infrastructure 2020-02-04 04:45pm
• Hello, World 2020-01-04 10:18am
• Python Meetup Talk - 2019-10-09 2019-10-10 11:18am
• Jumpbear: the Global Warming Bear 2018-05-21 02:15am
• Turn a Chromebook into the ULTIMATE GOLANG/PYTHON DEVELOPER MACHINE 2016-12-26 01:11am
• What I Like About My New Job 2015-05-11 08:55pm
• Stupid simple API reference for bottle.py web services 2012-03-25 11:11pm
• C++ is not so bad 2010-09-20 05:45pm
• I don’t really use OSX anymore 2010-02-09 01:15am
• Multialphabet 0000-12-31 04:07pm
• Search 0000-12-31 04:07pm
• Match-O-Matic 0000-12-31 04:07pm
• About 0000-12-31 04:07pm