Hi, I'm Jason Wride.

IS Student. Photographer. Creator. University of Utah.

Welcome to my studio. This is where code meets creativity, or whatever it is I waste my time on. Take a look around or hmu.

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Technical Projects

Interactive

The Tree of Life

An interactive radial cladogram mapping convergent evolution — pick a trait like flight or venom and watch the unrelated lineages that evolved it light up.

Custom recursive layout rendered straight to the HTML5 Canvas API, with no charting library.

  • Svelte
  • Canvas API
  • Python
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Private Repo

Local RAG AI Assistant

A native macOS/iOS app that leverages local LLMs (via Ollama) to perform Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) on iMessage history.

Engineered to allow semantic search and "chat with your texts" functionality while maintaining 100% data privacy and offline capability.

  • SwiftUI
  • Ollama
  • Vector DB
  • Local LLM
Public Repo

JasonWride.Studio

This site: a static Astro build with Svelte islands, a WebGL depth-mapped portrait, and a themeable design system.

Deployed on Cloudflare's edge network, with images optimized at build time.

  • Astro
  • Svelte
  • WebGL
  • TypeScript
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