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Jonathan Lahue
@jclahoot.bsky.social
Designer and Creative Coder •🔥✨👨🏼‍💻✨🔥 • Cat Dad 🐈 • Plant Dad 🌿 • Emoji Dad 👨‍🦰 • He/Him

🔮 jclahoot.com
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Finally realized another big piece of the vision for jclahoot.com 🙌

Welcome to my little oasis on the web! A tiny village nestled within a cat shaped mountain. My personal website.😌

🌳🌳🏔️🐈🌳
Khoa is displaying his zine at the Zine Coop Virtual Party right now 🎈📚🥳 party.zinecoop.org

It's really fun! you have your own avatar, and you can walk around and, read zines, and chat with different people at the expo!
December 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
A good Christmas playlist has all the classics, as well as a bunch of unhinged really weird ones thrown into the mix. 🎄
December 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🔥🌻 So, I may have sunflowered too close to the sun!🌻🔥

After building an editing tool to add content to my website, the number of objects and tiles increased quite rapidly. The CPU does *not* like that, and now things are slow. 🐢

Let's try to fix it! 🧵...
December 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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I've now opened a raffle for this embroidery landscape - direct link below! The listing has full details for the reason and how to enter, the process, etc. This is a vital moment for me so any post engagement/shares will be extremely helpful! victoriaroserichards.co.uk/collection/a... #art
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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There are so many courses with substantial Black Friday sales, so now is your chance to get your hands on them, support the creators, and upskill.

Stock up now while they're all so heavily discounted, and you'll have great content to sink your teeth into year-long.

🧵 Some of the best:
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 AM
📺 Added a video section to my site! (jclahoot.com)

I just published something new for the first time in a while (a vlog about a failed DIY project), and figured I'd give it a little screening area.🍿
November 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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I think `animation-composition: accumulate` is gonna see more action with `random()`, as it's like "take what you already got as a value and augment it rather than replace it".

Here's a parallax thing where randomly-fixed-positioned stars are moved different amounts (with a scroll-driven animation)
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The nested and interconnected nature of Wikipedia would feel so cool with these transitions!
vale.rocks Vale @vale.rocks · Nov 6
View transitions are pretty neat, and I was fortunate enough to write a piece for @piccalil.li about putting them to work.

They're such an exciting new part of the web platform, and I'm elated to see new and boundary-pushing effects making their way into production.

#WebDev #ViewTransitions #CSS
Declan Chidlow here with some really practical uses of view transitions, along with some of the stuff that will trip you up, with guidance to help you navigate that.

piccalil.li/blog/some-pr...
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This is hands down my favourite landscape on my website 💛
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Finally realized another big piece of the vision for jclahoot.com 🙌

Welcome to my little oasis on the web! A tiny village nestled within a cat shaped mountain. My personal website.😌

🌳🌳🏔️🐈🌳
November 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Just finished my fully playable Mario Party costume in time for Halloween! Roll the dice block, move your character, play minigames, and earn coin (candy). Only the very best will win the star for the night 🌟
October 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Lowkey wanna learn electric guitar and take singing lessons and start a Taylor Swift pop punk cover band 🎸
October 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Pre-orders are open for the second issue of the Good Internet Magazine!

'Tis a magazine all about the web as a means for expression, art, and recreation. There might even be some words from yours truly bound within.

goodinternetmagazine.com/pre-orders-n...

#Zine #IndieWeb #PersonalWebsite #WebDev
Pre-orders now available for Autumn 2025 issue
It's officially time for our pre-orders, open to the public! Pre-ordering your copy helps us pay for our upfront printing costs, which can reach up to $700 a run or more. Your help, even pre-ordering...
goodinternetmagazine.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:58 AM
More drawings for my site 😌 IT IS SO CUTE AHHH! 🥹

(but also so laggy because too many sunflower 🥲)
October 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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here is a heavily sped up video of me modeling a tamagotchi :)
October 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My deciduous tree drawing skills have improved! 🌳
October 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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I don't think I ever explained why I picked JCLaHoot as an internet name.

Basically, it's my name, and my favourite round Pokemon. 🦉

(Also here's a CSS version of HootHoot that I made)
codepen.io/JCLaHoot/pen...
Hoothoot
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codepen.io
June 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Bluer greens and pinker reds…

My traffic light aesthetic request 🚦
October 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Today's site design inspo:
October 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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It's not perfect at all yet but I can now generate a path between two waypoints with different environments! I'm almost done with technical prototypes, time to implement the gameplay! 🏞️🚲🐄
October 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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bees snoozing in some zinnias
October 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
One problem with making a giant cat-shaped 3D mountain is that you need vantage points from which it can be admired.

This is also true of interior design. You want your rooms to be cute, but the view from other rooms should be cute as well! 💖
The falling bug came back, final boss second phase style! 🥲

I guess I'll "do the wrong thing" and set up a falling timer 🙈 (until I get enough dev XP points to level up and beat this final boss of a bug 🐉💥🗡)

In the interim, I've started modelling the cat mountain! 🏔️
October 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
PET DRAMA: I'm watching my sister's cat, Millie, and my cat, Capitaine, has taken it upon himself to protect her from "danger". This has manifested as chasing the neighbour's cat and swatting their 15 year old tiny dog for barking.

Now the neighbour's cat is mad at ME and hisses when I get close.😩
October 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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I'm going to make an effort to post a new CodePen every day through October.

I haven't been doing nearly enough creative coding as of late, so it'll be nice to have an outlet.

Here is day one: codepen.io/OuterVale/pe...

#CodePen #CreativeCoding
Bouncing Blobby Balls
*Note that this is a very aggressive and fast moving effect* A lava lamp style visual with lots of moving balls that appear to connect with one anothe...
codepen.io
October 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM