"in 1833, a teenage girl met a machine which she came to regard "as a friend." it was a futuristic device which semed to have dropped into her world at least a century before her time."
-- sadie plant, zeroes + ones: digital women and the new technoculture (1997)

"it's marketing... which may be my most hated thing on earth. like, fascism is up there, but marketing is right behind you know?"
-- steve albini (1962 - 2024)

welcome to jadelukken (she/her/they)

i am currently a cs undergrad at the university of minnesota duluth, and i have done things in the past. many things. all the things. i like computer graphics, various forms of music, and other sterotypical things transfems like. i also am (going to/a) LA for CS 2531 (or discrete stuctures for computer science) which is a deeply surreal thing to be looking forward to be doing/currently doing. details relating to that will be added here when the time comes. also i guess im going to be tutoring. everything is happening faster and faster.

contact

i don't really use social media except to lurk. i have actively thought about creating a bluesky acc and actually posting on it but i'm really bad at that
school email: lukke014@d.umn.edu
personal email: smallhistorygeek@gmail.com / fl4m3p3rs0n@gmail.com (i have way to many spurious gmail accounts its insane)
school github: here
personal github: here
if i give you my number please text and not call unless its an emergency. i have a tendency to screen calls i don't know the caller id to.

faq (or questions i wish people asked me)

• why are you named jade?

  homestuck.

• why are you a cs student?

  i watched serial expriements lain sophomore year of high school, and didn't look back. before that i was looking to lingusitics, which i still find interesting, but cs has taken over as my main interest.

• why are you a LA?

  the idea of becoming an academic deeply appeals to me for some unknown reason, and it leads me to do stupid stuff like this out of pure ego. the link to apply was sent in the game dev club discord, and i thought why not. out of the two positions i applied for (cs 1 and discrete stuctures) i got the one that i thought was out of my league. i have no idea how. my eternal thanks to dr. sophia knight for taking a chance on some weird transgender freshman.

• why are you a weeaboo for australia?

  because of this. and because afl is cool.

• what do you want to do with your one life?

  go to grad school. try and probably fail to get a teaching position somewhere. do the most boring research imaginable. move to melbourne and try and become an australian citizen. learn the electric guitar and make weird music with it. buy a million pedals for said guitar. fuck around on the computer. buy a million fancy dresses and weird techware. do substances whither too unknown by man. write werid offputting stuff on the internet. disolve into goop. get my own place and get really good at cooking. this is a unordered list.

things that i have done

• frc robotics

  i programmed my high school robotics team's robot for the 2023/2024 season. i was on the team the year prior but i just programmed the arm on the 22/23 robot, the rest being done by our programming senior for that year issac patton (who i believe is currently at tc). in 22/23 we won our duluth regional (there's two at the same time) and came second at grand forks. we went to houston for worlds, which is a terrible feeling city but it was a good experience overall which i now have a bunch of war stories about. the next year (in which i was in charge of programming and teaching the incomming freshman how to code in java) we came 3rd at the duluth regional and 1st at our home regional in st cloud. i would like to state for my one humbleness that the st cloud win was a total fluke, we sucked the whole time, got picked by the number one ranked team as their last pick, got carried through playoffs, and then won the finals because the other alliance got a red card. i didn't end up going to houston with the rest of the team because we had no time to fundraise to actually go to it, and it was around a 1000 per person, which i decided would be better spent on college stuff. the code was done and dusted anyway, and my work with the team was pretty much done. frc robotics is not a program i would recommend to an aspring transsexual programmer due to the extreme stress, full time hours after school days, and the eventual feeling you're hanging around for no reason, but it did help me harden my understanding of java and how it works, which helped make java my favorite language to program in. i am aware of how controversial that statement is. java isn't even my first language (python) but it was my first love.

• selene

  i made a game for my cs 1 course which i was extremely happy with at the time. the assignment was groups of people trying to make their own zork clone. for this, i contributed 100% of the code, made a tkinter image editor(not good) and some custom tkinter minigames for it. you check it out here.

• scratched!

  i made a getting over it style rage game and put it on steam. it did not sell well. i am still very proud of it. give me 4 dollars and you can see how bad it is.

• jaderender

  for the final project in my cs 2 course i made a basic and very buggy rasterizer, because 1. some part of me wants to do everything at every given time and 2. we did a raytracer (a refactorization of a raytracer the prof wrote, at least) earlier on in that course. i planned to work on it over the summer, but it turns out long periods of time in my childhood home make me depressed and extremely unproductive, so it basically has just sat there, and now you can gauk at it for the mess it truely is. enjoy.
  

favorites section ala web 1.0

• look, im a late teens early 20s reddit transgender woman who spent way to much time during middle school and high school lurking on twitter and being an idiot who happened to be good at school if she applied herself. i have to like most of this stuff. its required.

• boards of canada

• aphex twin

• femtanyl

• bye2

• interpol

• joy division/new order

• black country new road

• sydney swans

• sushi

• java

• vscode

• linux (fav distro i've used is debian [but i have tried arch and that is also pretty nice]. if i'm using kubuntu i've been forced into it via circumstances)

• kde plasma

• getting over it

• art of rally

• getting over it

• persona

• homestuck (including beyond canon) and psychocolonals

• serial expriements lain

• akira

• ghost in the shell

• nirvanna the band the show (hyped for the movie! hope it comes to duluth cinemas. otherwise i will take a bus down to the cities no matter what.)