Jake Ouellette
@jakeout.com
Work: Eng @ Google, formerly Twitter, works on tools for developers (Firebase)
Hobbies: kid-friendly puzzle website: (https://zeepza.com), Indie game dev: (https://jakeout.itch.io), drawing comics (http://drawblanks.com) & more: https://jakeout.com/about
Hobbies: kid-friendly puzzle website: (https://zeepza.com), Indie game dev: (https://jakeout.itch.io), drawing comics (http://drawblanks.com) & more: https://jakeout.com/about
Oh whoops, I hadn't made the saturday zeepza.com game, all good now if anyone tried and was confused why it said no games available
August 8, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Oh whoops, I hadn't made the saturday zeepza.com game, all good now if anyone tried and was confused why it said no games available
I'm hosting this year's Oktrollber, a game jam about making "Troll games"!
itch.io/jam/oktrollb...
#itch #gamejam #oktrollber2026
itch.io/jam/oktrollb...
#itch #gamejam #oktrollber2026
Oktrollberfest 2026
A game jam from 2026-09-01 to 2026-10-06 hosted by jakeout. Welcome to Oktrollberfest 2026 Game Jam, we're back again to request, nay, demand you build more troll games! Troll games are games that set...
itch.io
August 8, 2026 at 3:26 PM
I'm hosting this year's Oktrollber, a game jam about making "Troll games"!
itch.io/jam/oktrollb...
#itch #gamejam #oktrollber2026
itch.io/jam/oktrollb...
#itch #gamejam #oktrollber2026
Do you think if grok existed in 2022, Elon would have vibe coded a different letter for X
July 31, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Do you think if grok existed in 2022, Elon would have vibe coded a different letter for X
"hmm, I need to catch up on the latest infowars" is not a thought my brain was expecting in 2026
July 25, 2026 at 12:24 AM
"hmm, I need to catch up on the latest infowars" is not a thought my brain was expecting in 2026
Probably needs more tuning, I think today's puzzle felt easier, actually, but I added spoiler letters that show up occasionally on hard mode wordbox to try to make it so you can't assume every location had a word attached
@ zeepza.com/games/wordbo...
@ zeepza.com/games/wordbo...
July 16, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Probably needs more tuning, I think today's puzzle felt easier, actually, but I added spoiler letters that show up occasionally on hard mode wordbox to try to make it so you can't assume every location had a word attached
@ zeepza.com/games/wordbo...
@ zeepza.com/games/wordbo...
I want to make a joke about this maybe being where they are filming the next fallout season but it feels too on the nose
July 15, 2026 at 9:57 PM
I want to make a joke about this maybe being where they are filming the next fallout season but it feels too on the nose
New game in preview at zeepza.com/games/word-g..., a spatial game disguised as a spelling game
July 6, 2026 at 12:16 PM
New game in preview at zeepza.com/games/word-g..., a spatial game disguised as a spelling game
I had some feedback that some of the UX bits of zeepza weren't landing for the younger end, I added a new "Jr" difficulty that is simplified for folks. My daughter enjoyed it :)
July 5, 2026 at 1:00 PM
I had some feedback that some of the UX bits of zeepza weren't landing for the younger end, I added a new "Jr" difficulty that is simplified for folks. My daughter enjoyed it :)
Yesterday's letterdrop had a couple glitches, so I added some systems to (1) prevent proper names (2) validate unique answers and (3) give "partial credit" for to make it easier to tell which words are part of the (ideally) single valid solution.
July 4, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Yesterday's letterdrop had a couple glitches, so I added some systems to (1) prevent proper names (2) validate unique answers and (3) give "partial credit" for to make it easier to tell which words are part of the (ideally) single valid solution.
I'm a big fan of that logged out dinosaur thing in chrome, I made the "error 404, page not found" page on my daily puzzle website a secret stacking puzzle
zeepza.com/404
zeepza.com/404
July 4, 2026 at 1:11 PM
I'm a big fan of that logged out dinosaur thing in chrome, I made the "error 404, page not found" page on my daily puzzle website a secret stacking puzzle
zeepza.com/404
zeepza.com/404
Feedback has been super helpful on zeepza so far!
My favorite thing of giving it to other people is how quickly they find things that should have been obvious to you
My favorite thing of giving it to other people is how quickly they find things that should have been obvious to you
July 3, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Feedback has been super helpful on zeepza so far!
My favorite thing of giving it to other people is how quickly they find things that should have been obvious to you
My favorite thing of giving it to other people is how quickly they find things that should have been obvious to you
My kids and I do daily puzzles, like the NYT puzzles and such... but connections is kinda hard if you're a kid. I made a daily puzzle website that is kid-accessible, parent-fun, would love feedback
zeepza.com
zeepza.com
July 3, 2026 at 3:18 PM
My kids and I do daily puzzles, like the NYT puzzles and such... but connections is kinda hard if you're a kid. I made a daily puzzle website that is kid-accessible, parent-fun, would love feedback
zeepza.com
zeepza.com
instead of using the lorem ipsum text for test content, it is more fun to use the wikipedia page about lorem ipsum
July 2, 2026 at 3:29 PM
instead of using the lorem ipsum text for test content, it is more fun to use the wikipedia page about lorem ipsum
This is amazing
also, bluesky desperately needs better self-reply threading for this type of content
also, bluesky desperately needs better self-reply threading for this type of content
June 6, 2026 at 12:11 PM
This is amazing
also, bluesky desperately needs better self-reply threading for this type of content
also, bluesky desperately needs better self-reply threading for this type of content
My quick other app take: I wish discord let you fork the app like bluesky does
Guys I'm sick of hearing about this app all the time. Let's talk about other apps. Give me your venmo takes
May 25, 2026 at 12:00 AM
My quick other app take: I wish discord let you fork the app like bluesky does
Reposted by Jake Ouellette
can't get over the Analogue Pocket port of Quake using bespoke-developed single-game hardware accelerators on FPGA, this is incredibly cool (and exactly what FPGAs are good for) but also so fucking silly
github.com/thinkelastic...
github.com/thinkelastic...
GitHub - thinkelastic/PocketQuake
Contribute to thinkelastic/PocketQuake development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
May 15, 2026 at 3:54 PM
can't get over the Analogue Pocket port of Quake using bespoke-developed single-game hardware accelerators on FPGA, this is incredibly cool (and exactly what FPGAs are good for) but also so fucking silly
github.com/thinkelastic...
github.com/thinkelastic...
Reposted by Jake Ouellette
This is like one of the worst security vulnerabilities I've ever seen, they hard coded the root password identically in every single mower and the firmware resets it back every single time you update it. It can shows you the wi-fi credentials, address and email of every user. Great piece by Sean.
If you have, or know someone, with a Yarbo robot lawn mower... they might want to read this. www.theverge.com/tech/925696/...
A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower
I’m fine. Yarbo owners might not be.
www.theverge.com
May 7, 2026 at 7:59 PM
This is like one of the worst security vulnerabilities I've ever seen, they hard coded the root password identically in every single mower and the firmware resets it back every single time you update it. It can shows you the wi-fi credentials, address and email of every user. Great piece by Sean.
Reposted by Jake Ouellette
this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has
NGC 4826 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2iEerHS
April 25, 2026 at 2:03 AM
this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has
This is like when everyone was taking pictures of the moon and the AI was just giving them nasa photos, and they'd say how great it is at astrophotography... but worse
petapixel.com/2026/03/28/r...
petapixel.com/2026/03/28/r...
'Restoring' Old Photos With AI Is a Fundamentally Broken Concept
When I was in college, I had the opportunity to spend a semester abroad in Florence, Italy to study. There, I took a "Chemistry of Art" class that
petapixel.com
March 28, 2026 at 8:03 PM
This is like when everyone was taking pictures of the moon and the AI was just giving them nasa photos, and they'd say how great it is at astrophotography... but worse
petapixel.com/2026/03/28/r...
petapixel.com/2026/03/28/r...
It was really fun submitting a game jam game last weekend. I got a bunch of positive feedback!
March 28, 2026 at 1:31 AM
It was really fun submitting a game jam game last weekend. I got a bunch of positive feedback!
March 22, 2026 at 6:25 PM
workin' towards a game jam submission
March 20, 2026 at 11:42 PM
workin' towards a game jam submission
Reposted by Jake Ouellette
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
March 9, 2026 at 1:27 AM
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
Wow, Claude has finally caught up to Godot
February 5, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Wow, Claude has finally caught up to Godot
Has anyone ever written an Ayn Rand "fan fic" of Atlas Shrugged from the perspective of the atlas
We're getting dangerously close to just pinning everything wrong with the world on Epstein...
February 3, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Has anyone ever written an Ayn Rand "fan fic" of Atlas Shrugged from the perspective of the atlas