Jason Scheirer

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.

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Saddle Creek: Add Out-of-Band Metadata to PE Executables

Jason Scheirer · 1w

Top Matter: Codeberg for the library, doc for the library. I took the one part of the suttered Omaha open source project by Google and i’m making it a library I can consume...

Golang Webview Installer for Wails 3

Jason Scheirer · 3w

Top Matter: Codeberg for the library, doc for the library. I’ve forked Lea Anthony’s library that eventually made its way into core Wails for two reasons: I want it in Wails 3...

Golang Webview Installer for Wails 3

Jason Scheirer · 3w

Top Matter: Codeberg for the library, doc for the library. I’ve forked Lea Anthony’s library that eventually made its way into core Wails for two reasons: I want it in Wails 3...

Eleven Years in the Bay Area

Jason Scheirer · 2mo

February 8th of 2026 marks the tenth anniversary of me moving to the Bay Area to work for tech startups. I didn’t quite have much to say about the tenth year so I held off. I’ve...

Steam on non-Conventional Desktops (Niri)

Jason Scheirer · 3mo

I’m trying out Niri! You know how I encourage getting used to the defaults? Well I’m not following my own advice! I’m using it with Dank Shell too, also ignoring my own advice!...

Ollama on Fedora Linux on a Battlemage GPU

Jason Scheirer · 3mo

My motherboard was dying and the Nobara project hates old GPUs, so I recently upgraded my middle-tier mid-2020 Prebuilt Costco Gaming PC for a middle-tier late-2025 Hand-Built...

Learn To Live With The Defaults

Jason Scheirer · 3mo

Every deviation from default is slowing you down from getting started and making it harder to help others. I use about 5 distinct laptops/desktops on an average day, not to...

If Your Electron App is "Just A Browser Wrapper" You're Doing It Wrong

Jason Scheirer · 4mo

Having spent the last 6 months working on an Electron app full-time, my Stockholm Syndrome has kicked in and I’ve come around to it. It’s easy to disparagingly refer to an...

A Series of Vignettes From My Childhood and Early Career

Jason Scheirer · 4mo

A short set of anecdotes, apropos of nothing. The Death of Software Engineering as a Profession When I was younger, I really liked programming! I loved the sense of...

The Innioasis Y1 Music Player

Jason Scheirer · 5mo

Introduction I’ve been enjoying standalong MP3 players! The Innioasis Y1 kept coming across my radar, I like the the form factor, it was $50. What the heck, why not. And Then...

The Shanling M0s Music Player

Jason Scheirer · 5mo

Introduction My Shanling Q1 died after a couple of years of heavy use and I think it was probably fixable with some soldering but I don’t have time for that. In a rush, I bought...

What You Do and Who You Are

Jason Scheirer · 5mo

Similar to The Wrong Conclusion is another cognitive anti-pattern: in the pursuit of identity we see ourselves as being something as an inherent quality of ourselves versus...

I Don't Like that I Like Starship

Jason Scheirer · 5mo

I have my seed Starship config up as a Gist. Starship is a tool that frustrates me because it seems so bikesheddy and unneeded: a custom prompt manager. We already had shell...

There and Back Again: My Journey Into (and out of) Tailwind

Jason Scheirer · 9mo

I’ve been using the Tailwind CSS Framework for about two and a half years (as of July 2025) for my personal projects, and I used it professionally in my time at unstructured as...

Here's The Interesting Part

Jason Scheirer · 9mo

For the 500 lines of boilerplate, what are the five truly interesting lines that solve the problem? In the course of my problem solving, especially when I am solving a problem I...

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