About

Hi, I’m Jim is written by Jim Mock.

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About me

Dad to twin teenage boys. East coaster. Ex-Portlander/Oregonian. Console gamer. Apple nerd. Web developer. Boston Red Sox, Chicago Bears, and Portland Trail Blazers fan.

About the site

As of September 2025, the site is built and deployed by a custom static site generator written in PHP that I have zero plans of releasing… ever.

Computing gear

My “main computer” is a 13” M5 iPad Pro (Space Black, Nano-Texture Display, Wi-Fi + Cellular, 1 TB) with a Magic Keyboard. If I’m at my desk, it’s usually connected to an Apple Studio Display. I also have an M4 Mac mini (16 GB RAM, 256 GB) that I primarily use for Photoshop-related work tasks and a 13” M4 MacBook Air (Midnight, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB) that I don’t use much these days and will likely trade in at some point.

My phone is a ~~Lavender iPhone 17~~ ~~Sky Blue iPhone Air~~ Deep Blue iPhone 17 Pro. Not a whole lot to say here, but I love having an entire tiny computer in my pocket.

Gaming Gear

These days I’m mostly playing on a PlayStation 5 Slim. I use a PlayStation DualSense Edge controller and a PlayStation Pulse Elite headset. I also have a PlayStation Portal that I play in bed or take with me when I’m traveling.

I also have an Xbox Series X, but I’m playing that less frequently lately. When I do play there, I use a Scuf Valor Pro controller and the latest version (Gen 5) of Logitech G’s Astro A50 headset.

Both the PlayStation and Xbox are connected to a not-fancy 50” Hisense TV I picked up on sale for $180 at Walmart after the 50” TCL Roku TV I’d been using for the last 5 or 6 years died.

Last but not least is a Nintendo Switch 2 that I mostly use in bed to play classic NES games or to continue working my way through Donkey Kong Bananza.

Disclaimer

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