Jonathan Lahue

I drove a bunch this weekend (please clap) and ended up dreaming about driving last night... I'm really looking forward to some more stationary dreams tonight. 😴

A GameBoy advance cartridge for Mother 3 on top of an iPad showing a drawing of the same cartridge. There’s also a pink GameBoy advance on top of the iPad screen

Sketching sketching sketching… blogging blogging blogging…

every time i think "okay i have seen the wildest personal website i will ever see", i browse bluesky for a few days and am shook once again.

i mean LOOK AT THIS

Ohhhh that lens compression is gonna SLAP!

This is amazing! I love the focus effect when you zoom in on the terrain. 😊

Whoah 😮 This is a great demo and the live generation with Wave Function Collapse is just so satisfying to watch 😌

A series of blog posts arranged in 3D on my website, around a desk with a pink iMac G3 on it. There's a cute yellow lamp on the desk and a yellow stool in front of it. There's also 2 yellow poofs for people to sit and read.

Annnd the blog posts have been published! 🐝 Find them on my website in the little writing nook 💖

jclahoot.com?position=%7B...

Don't do this. 🙅‍♂️

14 hours of in-flight coding followed by over a month of not touching said code will spawn a hydra-like barrage of bugs that you will not understand. 🥲

I have multi-selection working, but at what cost???

👹 Think of the sunk costs! ANGUISH over the sunk costsssssss! REMORTGAGE YOUR HOMEEEEE for the next ✨shiny✨ modellll! 👹

Nonono you have to pay for the more expensive model… then an even more expensive model… then an…

Various sketches to visually represent a few different blog posts. Titles are “on visual journaling”, “on cities”, “on cities, extra notes”, “on train mechanics”, and “on environmental friction”.

Working on some cover art for the upcoming blog posts 🥰

A photo of the northern lights and a stand of trees casting their silhouettes against it.

Digital Aurora 🌌

Dust and cobwebs on old posts, but also an ornate ostrich feather duster hanging off a brass hook on the side of the page.

A GameBoy camera hooked up to a GameBoy advance. I took a selfie that came out weird with a bunch of horizontal bands.

The GameBoy scientists on Reddit helped me to revive this poor cart 🙌

Now it runs without applying constant pressure, but the photos come out with horizontal bands… and new photos don’t save! Debugging hardware is tough 😅

🐝 bzz bzz 🐝

Ok but like what if haptics when digging on JCLaHoot.com? ⛏️

Finally our websites can have BEES!🐝

Using a webcam microscope thing to zoom in on a GameBoy camera cartridge.

A GameBoy Camera cartridge circuit board, full of chips and pins and with a big battery on the board.

Attempted surgery on the GameBoy Camera today and did not succeed. 🥲

It does work when I apply pressure to the top-right corner of the board though, which feels like an important hint for GameBoy scientists.

What if we just made a big non-profit / coop that made all the same stuff that the for-profit companies make, but made to last and sold at cost?

Idk this is the kind of shit I'd be doing if I was a billionaire.

the AI labour stuff is never going to be liberationist / humanist. it’s very stupid to believe that. the entire premise is a built off of stolen materials. like, a 3 day work week ‘due to AI’ would require the owners of any business to do something they have literally never done: say ‘I have enough’

I just want them to wake up and fix whatever protocol they’re using to work with photos and maps. There’s no way the current model is effective.

Just donated to Trans Continental Pipeline🏳️‍⚧️. It feels good to redirect some of the anger into action!

tcpipeline.org

Just learned that you can get the CAPTCHA wrong on purpose and it'll still work.

Do with this info as you please...

I'm sitting on 4 blog posts about environmental design (talking about cities, trains, treacherous terrain, and cities again). They're good posts, and deserve their own links!

I think I need to do a little side questing before starting the next dev arc...

Was feeling wistful thinking about how I've never had a roadtrip without a smartphone telling me exactly where I am...

then realized...

PAPER MAPS STILL EXIST. There is literally nothing stopping me from having this experience. 😆

What did we lose when we gave up getting lost? 🛰🗺🧭

Cause of divorce: AirPod noise isolating mode.

The wazeing witch 🚗🗺️🧙‍♀️

A photo of a woman at the very foggy Tottori sand Dunes in May of 2025. She's looking out towards the choppy sea, that disappears into the mist.

Some say she's still out there, gazing at the sea... 🌊

I wonder if the Als of the world have been going by Alvin more lately?