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I love writing useless software! Here's some useless software I wrote this year:

- https://lines.potato.horse → the uncolouring book

- https://meat-gpt.sonnet.io → MeatGPT

- https://tidings.potato.horse → Medieval Content Farm

- https://butter.sonnet.io → You deserve butter.

- https://mrr.sonnet.io → Mrr

- https://mrrr.sonnet.io → Mrr (physically accurate)

Some of those just very elaborate blog posts, over-engineered as I found it easier to express myself through playing with code, rather than solving a real problem.

Longer list (including some accidentally useful stuff): https://sonnet.io./projects

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My favorite useless thing: https://sc.rollc.at

Actually finally found a justifiable use case for infinite scroll

oh my god I was working on sth similar but with a never-ending cigarette. This is just perfect. (I struggled with quitting smoking, a lot.)

I absolutely love this idea, you should do it! Commentary on one kind of addiction using the terms of another.

An alternative for the bandwidth-impaired and hippophiles: http://endless.horse

This was underwhelming with Javascript disabled in my browser.

https://meat-gpt.sonnet.io most hilarious thing I have seen on the internet for a long time. Gold!

Marvellous. I asked it:

Which opinions do you tender?

and

Do you need a beefy GPU?

The result really was food for thought.

I got inspired by your stuff (and other links on this post) that I ended up getting a Scratch account and made an analog clock https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/910890145

My 8 year old does scratch every day and I often help him when he has questions. I was pretty fun to just make a silly project (with unnecessary animation) for fun! Thanks for the inspiration!

And by the way, a catch phrase in our house is now "Hurry to love! Hurry to love!"

Argh, I can't edit my comment – inspired by the article, I prepared my own list:

https://untested.sonnet.io/Here's+a+List+of+Toys

I actually forgot about a bunch of those

Your triple-r mrrr link doesn't seem to work, btw.

Arrrgh, thanks, here you go: https://mrrr.vercel.app

Woah, what are you using to render the brush strokes in The Uncoloring Book?

Rendering is done via SVG (and a bit buggy), the stroke thickness is calculated via perfect-freehand (by Steve Ruiz, the guy behind tldraw)

> the stroke thickness is calculated via perfect-freehand

thank you! yeah I noticed the bugginess, the thing seems to be lagging behind my actual cursor because it tries to smooth things out to within a few % of the brush's radius. kind of distracting, but tolerable.

Just came here to say that I love this

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