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.

I've seen a lot of weird stuff this year. Especially with AI getting so good. But this is by far the number #1, "what in the actual fuck" thing I saw all year. I actually don't think it's AI either.

The world needs a real YouTube alternative.

HOLY SHIT, today I learned you could do this in Chrome. 1. Open the dev tool 2. Right-click on the refresh button Now you can click one of these options. I know a lot of dev tool tricks other devs don't. But I did not know this one.

Emoji's: from pagers in 1999 to your pocket in 2025. Witness the evolution of how we communicate emotion through tiny pixelated art. emojistime.com/museum

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My Emoji Museum got featured in a few newsletters. I'm very humbled and grateful that people liked it. 😌

I added stickers to emojistime. You can download them and use them in chat apps.

Forget vibe coding. It's all about vibe architecting.

Back in the day, Quroa had a program where they would pay you if you asked questions that got a lot of views. It was crazy. I would randomly think of insane questions. Pop into Quroa, type it in, and slowly make beer money. Over the course of a few years, I made like $500. Anyone else do this?

Vibe coding be like.

10 years ago, I booked a one-way ticket to Mexico and moved abroad. I spoke ZERO Spanish. It was lonely and hell trying to express myself while learning the language. One time, I messaged someone "🌮🔥🍻❓" They understood me!! I realized emojis are the closest thing we have to a universal language.

Nothing is stopping this train. ｡°🚂🤖🤖🤖🤖༄｡°

No joke. I keep this pinned in a tab and look at it weekly. Thanks @JamesClear

Upnext:🎄 No joke, my next big project is the hardest thing I've ever built in my 20 years of professional coding.

I've been posting the most unhinged, crazy shit on LinkedIn lately. I just don't give a damn anymore. Quietly, a few people have told me they love it.

I started working in tech at a very young age (21 years old). My Hacker News account is from 2011, so I've been around a long time. Am I the only one that just doesn't like hackernews anymore? It just seems like a bunch of old grumpy tech workers.

When I watched the Terminator movies before. I used to think "Skynet"!? What a horrible name. Who would name an AI tool so badly? Well, turned out that was more realistic than I first thought.

I guess they're going make another Stargate Show. www.gateworld.net/news/2025/11...

Fiverr is soooo bad. I guess you do get what you pay for.

Today I learned that this picture was almost used for Windows XP instead of the iconic picture of the green hill. I'm really glad they didn't, but this is a cool picture too!

I feel bad for people who don't get excited by AI. 😔

I hate lorem ipsum. Nothing says this project is going nowhere like using a dead language for your placeholder text. I'm building The Next Big Thing™ here. I need to be inspired and have wisdom even when I'm building and shipping! So I created this 👇 paulgrahamipsum.com

This dude *skiied* down Mount Everest! ::faints:: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjZv...

Wow, I didn't know about this. www.designarena.ai Cool way to try out and compare LLM models, both bleeding-edge and upcoming models! I super appreciate that you can snag the code.

Hot take: I think the US government *should* help fund the AI buildout. It would be very bad to lose to China.

I know it sounds dumb, but I truly want to put joyous things out into the world. Maybe my latest ship wasn't a huge success like I hoped. But at least a lot of people tried it out and really enjoyed using it. It was super cool to see kids using it and really liking it.

My hobbies include: - Building things no one wants or needs - Complaining no one wants or needs said things - Stay up all night thinking about how no one wants or needs my thing - Dreaming of the next thing to build that no one will want or need

I have a confession to make. I get really good engagement on threads. But I only post on there and don't browse. I find the algo insuferable.

Am I slow dev? The current state of the industry and all the freelance / agency work has me so confused on what is slow or fast. I built this in two weeks: turkeyhands.fun

I swear everything looks like AI slop now because of god damn grammarly.

I might be crazy. My Mom says I'm having a midlife crisis. I am pivoting to try to be an "online creator" who makes crazy experimental websites and online content. I had a fairly lucrative career in tech for the last ~20 years. I don't want to spend the second half of my life doing the same thing.

I'm halfway through week 3 of my 25 projects in 25 weeks challange. How's it going? Not as well as I hoped. The good: I have had 1,000+ page views to my projects

How did I build Turkey Hands? I use the Google model MediaPipe for detecting hands. It's magic and I couldn't have made this without Google's models! It's a super small model that runs in the browser and in real-time! Nothing needs to leave the device.

Meet "Reverend Drumstick the Wonderful" Thanksgiving gets a bad beat. Sandwiched between two epic holidays, Halloween and Christmas. It's like the dried turkey sandwich of the end-of-year holidays. So I made a thing. 👇 turkeyhands.fun

I made a silly thing: kilroywashere.lol Meet Mr. Kilroy

Happy Halloween, all! I made a silly thing to celebrate: pumpkin.cool

I have a crazy idea... To build and ship 25 projects in 25 weeks. Each one is a random, fun thing to make you laugh, think, and hopefully go What the Fuck? This is project #1 of 25. 👇 pumpkin.cool

One of the best "music videos" ever made? So good. sosbmusic.com/afloat

My first project for my crazy 25 projects in 25 weeks is going out on Monday. I'm excited and freaked out at the same time. #25ProjectsIn25Weeks

I made a new personal website. All my upcoming projects will be here. 😏 stevenirby.me

I have a crazy idea... Grow my new newsletter from ~100 subscribers to 10,000 in six months. How? 25 projects in 25 weeks. Over the next 25 weeks, starting next week, I'll build, ship, and market one new project each week. Some will be funny, some will be wacky, some will be thought-provoking.