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who is xJ4cks? why? what?

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Jacks Media
Jacks Media
web3 Alchemist

I'm a technical creative who's fascinated with and by LLMs.

  • Developing with AI since 2025
  • Leveraging AI tools to create content and improve productivty since 2023
  • Worked in web3 (blockchain + Discord + twitter) in 2021-2023
  • Freelanced in web development (JS, AWS), from 2018 onwards
  • Enlisted in the U.S. military after 9/11, performed a Top Secret IT job

I currently live in Portland Oregon, one of the most progressive cities in the USA. You may have heard about the racial justice protests that occurred here during the early COVID years, and you may know us for our homeless crisis more than for our incredible city parks and restaurants, but the same policies and public attitudes that created the latter have also precipitated the former. I grew up in the Pennsylvania mountains a few hours outside of New York, so despite the drawbacks of life in this Pacific Northwest city, I vastly prefer it to the cold, mercantile Northeast of my youth.

My 5.5 years in the US Air Force were a whirlwind of travel and learning (mostly on the job, but sometimes on the weekend), plus my first forays into tourism and blogging. Those archives are strewn across flickr and facebook, but maybe I'll collect them together again someday.

I'm an open source dork and a bit of a hacker, and I tinker with jailbreaking devices and modifying Super Nintendo game code.