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A little world. A big rabbit hole.
Building the beach, one small detail at a time. Inside the 3D world behind this website.
Explore the journal ↗REACT, TYPESCRIPT & RUST/WEBASSEMBLY | AI AUTOMATION | ENTERPRISE CMS & WCAG ACCESSIBILITY
Senior web
engineer.
I consult, design, and develop web interfaces for businesses and government agencies.Explore my work ↘
JACKSONVILLE, FL • FIRST COAST FLORIDANow on the First Coast.GOOD COMPANY / SELECTED CLIENTS
Past & present.
Allianz Travel (opens in a new tab)Blue Triangle (opens in a new tab)VITA (opens in a new tab)Adecco (opens in a new tab)RS&H (opens in a new tab)American Airlines (opens in a new tab)Asponte (opens in a new tab)Florida Dept of Transportation (opens in a new tab)AIS Network (opens in a new tab)Amtrak (opens in a new tab)USDOT (opens in a new tab)StubHub (opens in a new tab)Gov of Virginia - Abigail Spanberger (opens in a new tab)Elvacomm (opens in a new tab)Engage Marketing (opens in a new tab)Fisher Design (opens in a new tab)WorldStrides (opens in a new tab)Azzly (opens in a new tab)Alembic (opens in a new tab)Provision Partners (opens in a new tab)Marko & Partners (opens in a new tab)
SELECTED WORK / BUILT WITH CURIOSITY
Made on
the shore.
IMAGE EDITOR · RUST / WASM / REACT
Image Horse
A browser-based image editor. Rust does the pixel work; React brings it all together.
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CLIENT WEBSITE
Image Horse - Marketing Website
Marketing site for Image Horse, a photo editor that runs in your browser.
Explore projectHOMEPAGE / BEYOND THE BROWSER
Salt air.
Side A.
A few things that don’t fit on a résumé.
Lowtide · Liquid DnB · 172 bpm · Paused
Drag the treble, bass and volume knobs, or use the arrow keys. Double-click a tone knob to center it. The source switch picks TAPE, FM or AM. LOAD plays your own audio.
All four tapes in this deck came out of bckgrnd-msc. The background-music skill gives your agent all eighteen tracks to render, or to tuck under a voiceover.
Put it in your agent.
My ramblings.
I still mourn the death of the marquee tag.Themountainsbeaches never judged my code. The ocean doesn’t either.Expected Website Completion Date: May 20, 1999In high school, If there was a song missing from Limewire, I was the guy to call.
2010: I was learning After Effects
2025: I am learning Effect.tsThe first time I used SQL I hitDROP TABLEthinking it would download the file.My.envfile knows more secrets than my therapist.I didn’t code as a child because this<!--[if !(IE 6)]>scared me.I tried to explaingit blameto my wife.
I’m now sleeping on the couch.alias adulting='echo "not today"'I spent way too many hours building this site, let’s bring back GeocitiesLocked my fridge with a CAPTCHA to stop my midnight snacking.Dear Guy/Gal with 47 tabs open, Group tabs will change your life trust meI lock my computer at night to prevent my cats from online shoppingPowered by coffee and deprecated APIs since 2015In 2017, three people called on the same day asking me “How can I learn to code tonight?”I should have went into the business of building COVID WFH sheds.
CHRIS LANE JONESWish you were here.
THE TOOLS BEHIND THE WORK
A good set
of tools.
Tech I love
17 toolsReact
Rust
TypeScript
Tailwind
Framer Motion
Next.js
TanStack
Three.js
Drizzle ORM
Bun
Shell
ShadUI
Convex
PostHog
Sentry
Stripe
Docker
Learning & tinkering
5 toolsRoku App Dev
Go
NixOS
Svelte
Kubernetes
Current AI tools
10 toolsClaude Code
Codex
MCP
N8n
Xiaomi MiniMo
Replicate
Firecrawl
Browserbase
OpenCode
Gemini
Tech I love · 17 toolsAlways building.
NO DEADLINES. JUST SAND.
Leave a little
castle.
A small patch of coast to make your own. Pick a mold, press the sand, lift the bucket. Five flags. One very good afternoon.
Build it for me makes one of five castles, a different one each time; Undo brings back your beach. Tap the sand to build. Choose Flag, then tap the sand or a castle to plant up to five. Removing a flag returns it to the box. Right-click the sand, or press and hold on a phone, to build any piece on that spot, turn a wall, or remove the top piece. Dig neighboring spots to join the water channels. Use arrow keys to move the marker, Enter to build, Delete to remove the top piece, or Shift+F10 for the menu.
A little head start. Choose a tool and make it yours.
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