I assumed this would be a retro gimmick that I tried once. Then I loaded up my subs and I found I genuinely like it. I just dropped in to a video from Wood by Wright and sat through the whole thing. Is this about the paradox of choice or just a fun format? channelsurfer.tv

Yesterday @thetsarkhan.bsky.social introduced me to Random Daily URLs and I spent the entirety of yesterday shifting through it. It is a gem of a website and something I really needed to get my creative gears going again randomdailyurls.com

This is actually incredible channelsurfer.tv

For those of you who have been following the progress of channelsurfer.tv, the latest update improves the import function so you can import specific YouTube playlists as custom DIY channels. I tested with an old favorite.

New Website 'Channel Surfer' Reinvents the Cable TV Couch Vegetation Experience for 2026

📺 Channel Surfer trasforma YouTube in una TV via cavo retrò: 40 canali tematici da sfogliare come una guida TV anni '80. Niente algoritmi, solo zapping nostalgico. Gratis su channelsurfer.tv

This is great: Channel Surfer is “a retro TV guide that turns YouTube into live cable TV. Each channel plays videos on a deterministic schedule — like real TV, you tune in mid-show.” [channelsurfer.tv]

If you're an old fuck like me (I'm not Boomer old but you know what I mean), channelsurfer.tv makes YouTube more like how we used to watch TV and "channel surf" back in the day 📺 channelsurfer.tv

This is the greatest thing ever.. https://channelsurfer.tv

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Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video https://pulsefeedback.io/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247762

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onegoal.email Goal reminder, do it!

I'll no longer be posting here. I really gave Bluesky a try, but it didn't work for me. Catch me here on Threads instead: www.threads.com/@stevenirby

I scraped 148k AI phrases from my ChatGPT chats. Used a cheap model to filter out the mild ones. Premium model scored the rest for max sycophancy. Then I built a tinder like swipe app to hand-pick the finalists.

Snookers emotions still aren't dialed in, so I put images of his thoughts in the feed. Soooo much better!

OMG I did it. I created an AI that is alive. It will die forever. It has to make at least $1 a day to stay alive. If it runs out of money, poor Snookers will die forever.

I am obsessed with killing as many phone notifications as possible. In every app, I kill notifications or update the settings to stop receiving promotions or annoying pushes. For email, I use my smart filters to block everything except important emails I actually need to read or care about.

I decided I will no longer post here to bluesky... To be honest, I get zero views, zero likes, and to be blunt, I don't go on here myself or use it.

Are you going to be alone this Valentine's Day? I built a thing so strangers can send you love. And gasp! It's a real human, not an AI.

My girlfriend said I'm cold and I need to be more loving... So I built a silly thing where strangers can send and receive love to each other. Do you think she'll like it?

NASA's mission to the Moon next week will be the first time a real toilet has gone into deep space past the Moon. 🚽🧻 Could you imagine taking a shit and looking out the window at the Moon?

Trump says he hates the media, but he was elected because of it.

This blew my mind. Mainstream media doubled down on making news more bite-sized. While the elites tripled down on complexity and made a paid garden. #wtfHappened2012 #wtfHappenedIn2012

These break my heart the most. Kids and young adults snapped mentally and physically.

This is haunting. The world snapped in 2012.

It's interesting to see command line tools go more mainstream. I have used the command line since I was 5 years old. No joke, I started out using DOS when I was a little kid. Then went to Windows, then Linux, and have heavily used the command line most of my life.

What I'm doing is weird, unsexy, and very experimental. It's a slow-burning kind of thing, and I really try to think almost daily, how can I move this forward by 1%?

Gemini is HORRIBLE to chat with. It's fantastic for small tasks using the API, good at one-shotting some stuff, and for anything search. Overall, I think it's the weakest of the three. (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) The best usage I get out of it is the API. That's my go-to.

This has turned out to be one of the most popular things I've built. I get a lot of regular traffic. What surprises me is that it's so simple, but it's a project I put my heart and soul into. Are people pick up on that? Is it because it's a short, simple thing? Why is this popular?

My newsletter is not clear what it's about. I've been seeing a lot more churn. So I redid the landing page. This has been on my TODO list for a while. I think it's much clearer what it's about, what you're getting, and what the goal is. What do you think, it's clear now?

Weird and erratic behavior from your government, such as taking over other territories that make no sense to try to take, is what you get when you've slipped out of Democracy.

I just added this to my newsletter FAQ based on a conversation I just had with a subscriber. P.S I love getting replies!

I don't hear this talked about enough. This is one of the biggest years for Space exploration in decades. Huge civilization-changing things are on the horizon this year: - We're sending humans back to the Moon for the first time since 1972!

It blows my mind. I'm a 40 year old trying to change careers from software engineer to crazy online creator. I've shipped almost 14 things so far in my pivot. People have come by and used, clicked play, uploaded pictures of their hands, and actually played with every single thing I've created. 🤯

Did you know ancient Greek philosophers predicted our politics almost 2,000 years ago? The theory is called anacyclosis. It's a theory that all societies follow the same predictable pattern and cycle. The US is predictably in the same cycle they predicted long ago. Is history repeating itself?

I made a dashboard for myself to see how well all my projects have gone for my 25 projects in 25 weeks. One of the hardest things I've ever done. This has been soul-crushingly hard. - Ship 1 thing a week with as much craft and soul as possible - Marketing and distribution without an audience

When I was a kid and we needed to know the exact time. We called it "popcorn". Yes, there was a weird number that would call and the robot popcorn lady would tell you the exact time. For this week's project, #12 of 25, I made an executive decision and recreated this service:

I started a Patreon page! I'm excited to take things to the next level.

Every single week of my life, I think of this chart. Taken from here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aoh...

This started as a dumb page with falling pizza. It accidentally became a game. It turned out way better than it deserves. 🍕 pizzzza.lol

This is so crazy. They backed up all of Spotify. annas-archive.li/blog/backing...

The hardest thing I've ever tried to do in my life is marketing. I could have a literal cure for cancer, but not a soul would be cured cuz no one would know about it.

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OpenAI should rename ChatGPT to TheraphyGPT™. That's how most people use it. OpenAI should triple down on being the normie LLM. Try to become a life OS like the movie Her. Give up on coding. Anthopic should continue being the coding AI / Agent LLM.

Growing up, my family had every pet imaginable. One time, we had a family pig. A literal pig. My family probably had over 30 dogs in my life. Cats, rats, birds, lizards, guinea pigs, tarantulas that traumatized my sisters, fish, and everything in between. It was a god damn suburban zoo!

It's been a long time since I've done this, but I wrote a blog post: "My Favorite Software in 2025" stevenirby.me/posts/my-fav...

When I see software engineers complaining about AI. I always think of this quote. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”— Upton Sinclair

I've been off the "beaten path" many times in my life. (This challenge is feeling a lot like that) I've slept in some weird places. Boats, huts, gym floors, on the ground in a sleeping bag, etc. One of the strangest places was on an active volcano in Ethiopia.