Jimmy

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". stackandsignal.com/projects/ove...

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!

Yay #vibecoding buttondown.com/stackandsign...

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

I know I know…. It’s another newsletter.

Find the dog waiting for me to throw the ball

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

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.

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.

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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