My first computer caught on fire because I routed a wire too close to the GPU. I was twelve.
I've been chasing that feeling ever since, except now I also have kids and doom-scroll guilt.
jimmypiraino.com/blog/interne...
Hot off the #vibecoding presses... 4 new weird little joy machines!
- WiFi personality reader
- Motivation from someone who just woke up
- Vibe check this color!
- Apologize to an inanimate object
All weird, all ready to be clicked.
joy.jimmypiraino.com/
"Our API can do anything" = you'll be writing custom code forever
"Most customers don't need that" = the feature doesn't exist
"Let's schedule a quick call about pricing" = we're charging you based on vibes
All the vendor red flags I watch for now
jimmypiraino.com/blog/vendor-red-flags/
You know that feeling. Three hours in. There are diagrams now. Edge cases with a 0.3% chance of occurring.
I built a quiz to externalize the voice you're too busy to hear while adding "just one more thing".
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Added 4 new weird little joy machines!
- A color apologizes to you
- Emails from your sleep paralysis
demon's HR dept
- You can throw your feelings into a void
- Micro-achievement generator!
All normal website stuff.
joy.stackandsignal.com
Why is your cat mad at you today? Find out 😸 I got to use the very fun Cat API for this one!
Instead of sleeping I made a bunch more:
- Fortune Cookie But Unhelpful
- Why Your Cat Is Mad at You Today
- Hold This Button to Feel Something
- Click Here to Be Perceived
- Every Time You Refresh This Sentence
Gets Worse
- A PDF Is Loading It Will Never Finish
Found some more free time today. Added another weird little joy machine: Infinite Potato Zoom! Enjoy 🤘
joy.stackandsignal.com
#SmallJoys #IndieWeb #JustForFun #potato
Dog waiting for a ball to be thrown
Find the dog waiting for me to throw the ball
Oo that’s a good one ❤️
The world is a lot right now, so I built dumb little web toys to make you smile.
Find out what your houseplant named itself. Get a compliment from a very specific person. Generate corporate excuses so jargon-filled they're meaningless.
joy.stackandsignal.com
#SmallJoys #IndieWeb #JustForFun
I built a free email deliverability checker called SendReady. Checks SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and one-click unsubscribe headers.
Nobody asked for it. Plenty of other tools exist. I built it anyway.
sendready.stackandsignal.com
Tide pool mini world
Found a mini world at the tide pools
Launched a website with exactly one post about a coffee calculator I made. There’s a newsletter too. No schedule, chaotic topics. Should be fun! stackandsignal.com
The gap between "I just got a 3D printer" and "I now have opinions about bed adhesion" is about 72 hours.
Save 100% when you don’t buy anything sign
Happy #blackfriday Eve!
One of my favorites from the Point Defiance Rose Garden in 📍Tacoma, WA
My wife sewed this for our cat. It’s like a turtle shell sweater. This may come as a surprise but our cat hates it.
Such beautiful birds! I love seeing Western Bluebirds fly through my yard.
Had a really cool fungus grow in my raised bed. It’s called Lysurus mokusin, aka lizard’s claw. Apparently it’s edible in its early stages! I’m… going to pass though.
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