Continuing my highly accredited certification program. Today: Certified Professional Loafer. 🦶 One step closer to that AWS cert. codepen.io/editor/grauc...

Certified Professional Loafer 🐧

Officially certified in leaning, lounging, and avoiding unnecessary productivity. Pudgy has completed absolutely no training for this position.

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Reviving an old C# WPF audio player I built back around .NET 5. Now I’m opening it in the .NET 8 era and finding tiny ancient bugs like "*jpg" where "*.mp3" should be. Exactly the kind of typo that makes an old project feel haunted. 😂

Featured curiosity: This AI wearable can assist physical tasks through motion guidance. Could systems like this help us learn physical skills—not just perform them while assisted? Could similar tech help people with paralysis regain movement? youtube.com/shorts/6MCyH...

MIT built an AI that can take over your hand and work for you

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Laptop is back to life. Apparently it just needed to be tossed around a little while I pried it open. I do have seven loose screws left over, though—which is probably an accurate reflection of my mental state. Next task: find homes for the seven loose screws.

My laptop died. I’m waiting on a replacement part that may or may not solve the issue, and suddenly The Lady of Shalott feels less metaphorical. Troublesome. Minor correction: “And little other care hath she” …except laundry while she waits for the part.

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#Poetry #Painting #Shalott She knows not what the curse may be, And so she weaveth steadily, And little other care heat she, The Lady of Shalott. - Alfred Lord Tennison 🎨 John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)

I use ChatGPT for most questions these days, but whenever I end up on Wikipedia, one search somehow turns into a dozen connected articles. codepen.io/editor/grauc... #CodePenChallenge #CodePen #CreativeCoding

Wikipedia Rabbit Hole Receipt

A fictional email receipt itemizing the time, attention, and questionable trivia spent during one innocent Wikipedia search. Expand the categories and

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Current operating environment: CodePen, an online hackathon project, penguin feeding time, and zero reported velociraptor incidents.

A retelling of Kaguya-hime through impermanence — mono no aware. Each chapter clears more of the grayscale from the image, revealing the color beneath before the princess returns to the Moon. #CodePen #CreativeCoding #CSSAnimation #JapaneseFolklore codepen.io/editor/grauc...

Impermanence: Mono no Aware

An interactive retelling of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter where each chapter reveals more color from Kaguya-hime’s hands across the grayscale scene. T

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Tonight's rabbit hole: ComfyUI. Open-source AI workflows running locally on your GPU. No per-image API fees. Testing it now. Apparently AI image generation has its own version of node-based workflows. 👀 #BuildInPublic #ComfyUI

Tonight’s rabbit hole: VS Code + AI → OpenSCAD → Blender (Python) → AI-generated 3D model. I had one question: Can it be done? I was going to write it on my dry-erase board as a reminder. Naturally, I immediately ran mkdir and opened the folder in VS Code instead. 🐶🖨️ #BuildInPublic #3DPrinting

A suspicious button, several avoidable decisions, and a particular penguin insisting everything went according to plan. Built as a four-panel animated comic in CodePen. #CodePen #CreativeCoding #CSSAnimation #WebDesign codepen.io/editor/grauc...

One Button, Several Poor Decisions

A four-panel comic starring Pudgy, whose innocent curiosity escalates into WHAM, POW, BOOM, and a very delayed realization that perhaps the warning la

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Submitted my hackathon project with 40 minutes left. Then spent the next 28 minutes double-checking everything. Finalized with 12 minutes to spare. Absolutely unhinged motivational content. 🦞🚢 Somewhere, a developer just called this an unexpected feature.

Public GitHub: looks like I’m barely coding—always out in the wild. Private GitHub: quietly building apps with monetization potential in hermit mode. 33 visible. 76 total. Every now and then, one escapes into public. 😏 Probably true for more developers than we realize.

Manual cloud deployment. ☁️🐧

Before refrigeration, geography was part of the recipe. Preservation Atlas explores how frost, altitude, wind, fermentation, salt, and sunlight helped communities preserve food for generations. Built with CodePen 2.0 Blocks (SCSS + TypeScript). #codepenchallenge codepen.io/editor/grauc...

Preservation Atlas — Climate as Technology

An interactive field atlas exploring how communities preserve food through frost, altitude, wind, fermentation, salt and sunlight. Built with TypeScri

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“What are you doing up there?” Running ideas in production.

G.O.A.T. mode: activated. 🐐

Released a new CodePen: RelationshipUI.exe — Trophy Mode Incident. A fake engineering incident report about a relationship app infected with TrophyMode.exe, SwimsuitEdition.dll, ValidationLoop.exe, and a suspicious pending malware update. Dev humor + satire. codepen.io/grauconejo13...

RelationshipUI.exe: Trophy Mode Incident

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I learn something every day. A year ago, I used Google reCAPTCHA for a contact form because I thought that was the standard move. Today I learned a simple honeypot field + server-side validation can be enough for a portfolio site. Simpler can be better engineering.

Got down the rabbit hole of Li-Fi, dark fiber, and fiber optics. Reading about how 0s and 1s travel as pulses of light. Curiosity does not sleep. 🐧 codepen.io/grauconejo13...

Pudgy’s Light Protocol

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Bloomspace 🌸 A small revival of my first hackathon project: 1. Draw a flower 2. Add a kind message 3. Plant it in a shared garden Flowers bloom for 3 days — watering refreshes them. Still building, but the garden is growing.

Built Pudgy a tiny sea breeze delivery system for this week’s CodePen Challenge. There’s a fan, moving waves, flying birds, drifting clouds, and a hidden summer audio button because apparently Pudgy needed the full resort package. #CodePenChallenge #cpcSeaBreezes codepen.io/grauconejo13...

Grooving to Summer Breeze

Pudgy catches a beachy little breeze with moving clouds, flying birds, ocean waves, sandy texture, and a hidden audio button....

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Built a tiny Three.js museum exhibit inspired by Iceland's famous preserved McDonald's meal. Cheeseburger, fries, glass case, dust, and dramatic lighting. Somewhere between fast food and archaeology. #threejs #webgl #codepen codepen.io/grauconejo13...

The Last McDonald’s in Iceland

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Built this CodePen challenge last week. The theme was sand, so naturally I thought: why not use Three.js and make a sandcastle? It gave me side-eye. Some experiments take all day for no good reason. I almost added a crab, then decided to leave it alone. codepen.io/grauconejo13...

Well, That Bastion Took All Day

A stylized Three.js sand fortress built on a beach horizon after entirely too much debugging, textured with sandy grains, scattered shells, rocks, and ...

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Submitted my plant app for Android internal testing. My family: “We’d love to help!” Also my family: all iPhone users Looking for an Android friend. 🫠🌱

Debugging physical systems is still debugging. Sometimes it’s not the software, the robot, or the logic — it’s a tiny object blocking the marker the system depends on. Royal interference. 👑🤖

A small thought on posting with intention.

New CodePen: Marks for Strangers A small interactive field guide about traveler symbols as hidden UX — quiet marks that could warn, guide, protect, or inform strangers who knew where to look. History, folklore, communication design, and a little mystery. codepen.io/grauconejo13...

Marks for Strangers

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If you build a social platform, are you responsible for solving what people actually need, or giving them what they already want? And when people use it to perform who they want to be seen as, is that a platform problem — or just human nature? #SocialMedia #PlatformDesign #UX

Testing two of my portfolio apps like an actual user and immediately finding UI issues I missed while building. Humbling, but useful. Not urgent, but it’s on the checklist — before coffee, of course.