🔥🎸 BLOG POST: “Becoming the Code” – SnowCone MathFest Dev Diary, June 4, 2025 🧠🍧🛠️

I woke up with the idea. Sketched it out.
📓 The notebook was honest — the direction was clear.

But the machine world? Nah man…
It wasn’t ready to obey yet.

🖥️ GitHub, Vite, VS Code — Remote Mode Chaos

I had a vision of syncing everything cleanly across devices.
Visual Studio Code, GitHub, Vite — my dream tools — weren’t playing nice in “remote mode.”

Once upon a time, pushing files directly to GitHub manually felt beautiful.
But that era’s over now. ❄️ I need mirrors. I need synchrony.
I need to open any laptop and drop into my project like it’s a pocket dimension.

I fought through:

🤯 Desynced folders
🧟 Ghost files that refused to leave
⚪ The dreaded white screen of Vite deploy death
🤬 node_modules permission issues

But I didn’t back down.

🔁 Mirror Mode Activated

For the first time… I feel like my system’s tight.

📁 My iCloud folder is the truth
🧪 Local testing through npm run dev is the loop
☁️ GitHub is the cloud reflection
🚀 And when I’m ready: npm run deploy sets the site live.

I built the workflow of my dreams.
I don’t trust it yet. But I’m learning to.

🔍 The Day I Met My JSON File

I didn’t code new gameplay today.

But damn…
I spent three hours with my package.json and came out feeling like I earned a badge.

I didn’t just skim it —
I read it.
I questioned every line.
I added scripts. I locked versions. I pinned down who I want to be as a developer.

jsonCopyEdit"live": "npm run build && npm run deploy",
"reset": "sudo chown -R $USER node_modules && rm -rf dist node_modules package-lock.json && npm install",
"lint": "eslint . --fix"

These are my spells now.

And with Husky?
With lint-staged?
With git pushcone as my terminal alias??
Bro… I’m not just pushing commits.
I’m pushing legacy.

🤖 Patch the AI vs. JPS the Human

ChatGPT — aka Patch — tried to keep me simple.
But I didn’t want simple.
I wanted complex.
I wanted the engine room, not the paintbrush.

I told Patch: stop protecting me.
Let me crash. Let me learn.
And Patch delivered.

It gave me all the risky power tools… and I still have all my fingers.

🎶 TL;DR – Why I’m Doing This?

Because I’m building the math world I never knew I wanted.
A place where people can play, learn, unlock, and maybe hear some dope-ass music while they’re at it.

“Put a guitar in my hands, and I’ll solo Van Halen.
Put a pen in my hand, and I’ll write a biography.
Put a terminal in front of me…
…and tonight, I didn’t flinch.”

Coding finally started to feel like my element.

📣 Call to Action

If you made it this far…

🔍 Search JPS Grooves on Spotify, Apple Music, or SoundCloud
🎧 Listen to the tracks that fuel this whole cosmic cone dream

📲 And keep checking back here — because someday real soon,
SnowCone MathFest will be live.
And I promise you…
It won’t feel like any other math game you’ve ever played.

This one’s got soul.
This one’s got glow.
This one’s got… you in mind.

🍧🌀
– JPS Grooves, June 4, 2025
“One cone closer to the portal.”