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:

A cursed approach to multiple components per file in Astro:

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 built this website for a club I was involved in last semester

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

When I was applying to college, I made this crazy portfolio website

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)

adrenocorticotropin

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.

Ripped paper effect made using CSS clipping paths

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

I created this driver’s license component entirely in Tailwind/HTML for my forthcoming “skeuomorphish” website.

Another assignment for this class was to make our own writing system to encode English. I built this editor for mine, which let me draw each character on a 9×9 grid.

I built this avatar effect using two CSS clipping paths

I built this minimap for exploring an undeciphered Mesoamerican carving. It was part of a project for “Lost Languages,” an anthropology class I took at @brown.edu last semester.

Did you know `text-wrap: balance` works on any inline element? I used this fact to make a responsive logo grid that nicely balances the logos at all screen sizes. I replicated flexbox's `gap` with padding and negative margins on the inline elements.

Finished!

As a side-quest, I printed a little CBR building like they used to have outside their offices and factories; the real ones were, fittingly, made out of concrete.

It's been a while since I shared an update! I've finished printing all the modules, and learned how to use a laser cutter in the mean time.

I'm building a model of the CBR Building in Brussels for an architecture class I'm taking this semester. It was designed by Constantin Brodzki (pictured) and Marcel Lambrichs and completed in 1970.

“incident upon landing”

Are you worried about changes on federal websites? My son @bighead.bsky.social did a hackathon at Brown University last weekend and cranked out this tool for comparing .gov websites, before and after inauguration day. It show code changes side-by-side, using @archive.org versions. govdiff.com

I wrote a lil’ @val.town script to periodically check for spots in a class I'd like to take and email me if any sections open up!

I wanna be killed by a drone running Haskell

This is surely HIPAA-compliant

Critical security issue: The mob has not been paid