Jake Carpenter 💙🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️

@jakecarpenter.dev

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Software Engineer in Boise, classless-Idaho. I also ❤️ 3D printing and poorly brewing ☕️ espresso. Slightly obsessed with keyboards and LEGO. Former lifelong MLB fan. [sad] blog: https://jakecarpenter.dev/ He/him | #BlackLivesMatter | #Ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

A new agent prompt from Cursor IDE with the "Cursor Grok 4.5 High" model selected. Below the prompt is an alert that reads, "Upgraded from Composer to Cursor Grok 4.5 - our most powerful model, now 50% off"
Photo of Stephen Miller giving a TV interview
A screenshot from Outlook with 5 identical email lines reading: "From: Azure DevOps, Subject: Azure DevOps personal access token has expired, Date: Yesterday."
Balatro stats screenshot with the “Deck stake wins” stat at 100%.
Cursor's Agent chat responding to me with: "Ah, you've hit the classic React Navigation 7 chicken-and-egg problem! The solution is to render the navigators immediately but handle the loading state differently."
Full TypeScript snippet: // This 'unnecessary' act gets rid of a bunch of warnings about state updates // eslint-disable-next-line testing-library/no-unnecessary-act await act(async () => { fireEvent.changeText(screen.getByLabelText(selectors.search), 'included') jest.runAllTimers() expect(await screen.findByText(selectors.included)).toBeDefined() })
Balatro card-game screenshot with a flush-five 10-of-spades hand selected, all with a blue seal. There are 12 Jokers applied and 4 “Negative tags” that will give 4 more negative Jokers at the end of the round.
Headline: Former Arizona US Senator was right about the filibuster, and Democrats know it | Opinion From: PHIL BOAS, ARIZONA REPUBLIC First two sentences: Looks like more and more Democrats are returning to their roots. They’re siding with Jim Crow. 
Screenshot of a vertical iPad layout with two apps open in Stage Manager mode. The top window has a few millimeters less margin between the sides of the screen than the bottom app does.
Screenshot from Hissab with calculations. Here is the full text with calculations annotated: // Variables x = 2 x + 2 [this shows a calculated result of 4 on the right side of the app] // Date arithmetic - I'm always off by 1 january 1 + 50 day [this shows a calculated result of Feb 20] // Color operations ~#1c1c1c // compliment [this shows a calculated result of #e3e3e3] #1c1c1c + 1.3 // brighten [this shows a calculated result of #4f4f4f] #1c1c1c to rgba color // conversion [this shows a calculated result of rgba(28, 28, 28, 1)]
Close-up of the left half of an aluminum keyboard with keycaps that are shaped like they have tiny cat ears. The keys are mostly off-white with some beige, grey, a brownish-red and some brown keys. Most keys have the face and whiskers of a cat on them in addition to the key legend. Others have symbols for coffee cups and beans. The spacebar has a logo that reads “Coffee Kitty.”
Luna: a miniature dachshund shorthair with piebald dapple light/dark brown colored coat. She is posing on a small stuffed dog bed. Her short from legs are tucked inward and she’s staring curiously into the camera with her ears slightly raised.
Screenshot from Obsidian's community plugin section with my search for "renumber" and a listing for a community-provided plugin named "Automatic List Renumbering" by Omri Levi.
Screenshot from MS Teams showing the 'meeting ended' message with text: "8:46 AM Meeting ended: 2 minutes 54 seconds"
Screenshot from the Oura Ring app with the prompt “Your Sleep Score is lower than usual. Did anything impact your sleep yesterday?” along with the following pre-made tag options plus an option to add my own: Insomnia, Stress, Caffeine, Headache, Pain, Common cold
Black split-layout keyboard with grey / black / aqua-green keycaps and a walnut wrist rest. The keyboard tents up towards the center slightly for better ergonomics. The keycaps use a “terminal” theme with terminal prompt characters around the modifier keys.
Screenshot of the Energy Mode section in macOS Sequioa Battery settings showing the "On battery" mode is still set to Automatic and that I have changed the "On power adapter" mode from Automatic to the High Power option.
A screenshot of a phone app’s pink screen highlighting podcast stats for the year. Text: “11 days 17 hours 46 minutes total listening to podcasts”
Top-back angle photo of a split-layout Alice-style red keyboard showing the slight tenting towards the center between the two halves.
A screenshot of the Oura app showing my Rediness score of an 86. The text below the score reads: Call an architect!Your readiness just blasted through the roof! You've put yourself in a great spot with your balance of rest and activity - so what do you have in store for today?
A photo of my torso while laying down on a couch with a dachshund puppy sleeping under my left arm up to my chin and a grey tabby cat curled up on my upper left leg.
Simpsons gif where grandpa walks into a restaurant and in a fluid motion he turns to hang his hat on the coat rack, turns as if he’s walking further into the restaurant but turns again to grab his hat off the rack, places it on his head and leaves.
Example of the code using ts-pattern in TypeScript. Full text including the import statement and an interface for the variable in question import {match} from 'ts-pattern' interface P { noId: boolean likesSports: boolean likesGames: boolean } const bestBar = (p: P) => match(p) .with({noId: true}, () => 'juicebar') .with({likesSports: true}, () => 'sportsbar') .with({likesGames: true}, () => 'barcade') .otherwise(() => 'bar')
A silver Sneakbox AVA keyboard with a split single-case “Alice” layout with black keycaps.
Photo of Butt-Head from the cartoon “Beavis and Butt-Head,” who looks suspiciously like Matt Gaetz.
Screenshot of power outage info from my power provider. Full text: IMPACTED CITIES Boise, Eagle, Meridian IMPACTED ZIP CODES 83616, 83642, 83646, 83713 CUSTOMERS IMPACTED 4714 PROBABLE CAUSE Under investigation STATUS Unassigned / acknowledged event ESTIMATED RESTORATION Nov 11, 12:00 PM
Screenshot of the "new" Microsoft Outlook interface on macOS in an inbox-zero state using a vertical split pane between the section that would show the list of emails and the section that would display the selected email contents. However, the empty state graphic in the top pane doesn't center within the pain and overlaps the column headers, creating a strange visual.
Photo of the keyboard described
Screenshot from my Oura ring app showing it gave me a sleep score of 90 (of 100) for last night.
Mario & Yoshi LEGO set in motion where Yoshi’s feet and arms move as it goes up and down and Mario’s cape flaps behind.
Screenshot from the FordPass app showing that my Mustang Mach-E has been charging for over 14.5 hours and has only added 16.3 kilowatt-hours which is roughly 41 miles of travel at a current charge rate of 1.1 kilowatt.
Headline “Why Amazon is right to get employees in the office 5 days a week” by John Rodman, with a picture of Rossman.