JPS Grooves

This one’s dedicated to the slipperiest little suckers in UI history —
the glowing cone labels. 🌀🍧

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✅ Small Wins, Big Impact

Tonight wasn’t about shipping a full feature. It wasn’t about connecting systems or perfecting the modal. It was about getting one damn thing right:

🧷 “Do the labels actually sit where I want them?”

And yeah — they finally do.
For the first time since I rebooted the project, the grid, the background PNG, and the interactive labels are all living together in relative harmony. Mobile vs desktop testing is still a pain (I’m running everything through terminal + GitHub push, like a real dev monk), but that’s what this week is for: locking in the visuals.

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🌌 Design Philosophies, Terminal Realities

I was talking with my friend tonight about manifestation, the law of attraction, and all that cosmic philosophical stuff. And while I respect it, my personal approach remains simple:

“Burn that midnight oil! It sucks. You’ll be tired. But you’ll have something to show for it.”

No dream survives if you don’t carve out time.
So I sat with the code, wrestled with the vh units, and slowly bent the layout to my will.

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🎯 Where We Landed

• Background PNG is set. Full-frame, fixed-aspect, aligned.
• Labels are mostly set. They still resist total precision, but I’m learning to accept that glowing things float a bit. It’s their nature.
• Layout is unified. No desktop/mobile split… for now.

Tomorrow’s experiment will test whether to go all-in on mobile mode permanently.
Honestly, it might just be the cleanest path forward — and it was Patch (that AI sidekick of mine) who tossed the idea back at me after I offhandedly mentioned it. That’s how good dev conversations happen sometimes. Ideas bounce, then stick.

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🧠 What’s Next

• 📱 More testing on actual devices
• 🪐 Fire up the Cosmic Modal
• 👾 Begin the Title PNG Button Boss Battle™ — a tale of animation, event listeners, and click precision

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This wasn’t a sprint. It wasn’t some epic milestone.
But tonight… the cones stopped sliding.

And that, my friends, feels like progress.
See you tomorrow in the grid 🌌🍧

— JPS Grooves
Midnight Coder | Festival Architect | SnowCone Vibes Only