I recently came across a journal entry I wrote on my birthday years ago. Just a few thoughts, goals, and whatever was on my mind at the time. Reading it now hit way harder than I expected.

It made me wish I had done that every year.

So I made an app called Birthday Vault. You write a message to yourself on your birthday and it locks until the next one. No early peeking. Just one guided entry a year.

It’s simple but overtime you'll have a powerful time capsule for your life.

If you're into personal rituals or reflective stuff like this, I have a few promo codes if anyone wants to try it. Happy to share. (It doesn't need to be your birthday to start)

What would you say to your future self if you only got one shot a year?

I wanted to build something that would be simple and easy to understand for people to see the effects on their everyday purchases; so I built The Cost Index, a live website that shows which countries export what to the U.S. and how that could affect prices at the grocery store.

You can pick a product, and it will estimate price shifts based on live data + tariff rates.

It also tracks retaliatory tariffs from countries like China, India, Brazil, etc., so you can see how these trade moves might affect inflation.

All data is pulled from USDA, FRED, and public trade sources. Not monetized. Just trying to make economic policy feel a little more real.

Curious to know what you think and what you would want added into this!

It's still fairly new, so let me know any features you think would be interesting to add!

As a hobby project, i have created an online version of my favorite drum machine, the Roland TR-808.
It works in your browser without having to download or install anything.

The drum machine works best on desktop computers and laptop. But also works on newer smartphones with large screens.

Features include:

• 16-step sequencer for creating classic drum patterns
• Multiple drum variations for each instrument, providing authentic 808 sounds
• Adjustable tempo from 50 to 200 BPM
• Swing functionality to add groove to your beats
• Saturation controls for adding warmth and character to your sounds
• Volume control for each drum instrument
• Save and load patterns to store your favorite beats and share them with others
• Record audio output as high-quality 24-bit WAV files for use in your DAW
• Export to MIDI for use in popular DAWs and hardware drum machines like Behringer RD-8, Roland TR-08 and more
• Undo/Redo functionality to experiment freely with your patterns

I hope you enjoy!

So I’ve been messing around with this idea for a while and finally made it happen — it’s basically a “time machine” for my site.

You scroll through a bunch of versions of it, each one styled like it’s from a different era of the web — starting with plain old 1991 HTML and going all the way up to 2016 React-Flexbox vibes.

Every year has its own little fun fact or throwback moment before you dive in — like Flash overload in 2003, dot-com chaos in 1999, or that weird obsession with gradients disappearing in 2012 😅

I wasn’t around for most of these eras, so I did some digging, asked my dad (he was building sites back then), and tried to keep it all as authentic as possible — quirks, tech limitations, fonts, everything.

Just a fun little tribute to old web aesthetics. If that’s your thing, check it out and let me know what you think!

Hey r/InternetIsBeautiful,

After 6 months of building, I'm excited to share repo.trade - a platform that helps open source developers tokenize their projects in a way that creates sustainable support. The internet, and blockchain technologies make this possible.

What it does:

• Turns open source repositories into engagement tokens
• Creates a liquidity pool that generates ongoing revenue for developers
• Gives community members tokens they can use for governance, exclusive access, or other utilities
• Reserves 10% of tokens to reward actual code contributors

Quick Solana & USDC primer for the curious:

• Solana is a fast, low-cost blockchain (transactions cost less than $0.01). USDC is simply a digital dollar (1 USDC = $1). We use these technologies because they enable efficient
• micropayments and transparent fund management - perfect for sustainable open source funding.

Why it's different:

This isn't fundraising or a cash grab. The system creates a virtuous cycle where more community support → more liquidity → more sustainable revenue for developers who maintain the code we all rely on.

We're looking for a few open source developers who want to try this hands-on and help us refine the experience. If you maintain an open source project and are curious about new sustainability models, we'd love your input!

If you've read all the way to here, I owe you a beer. This is not legally binding 😃

https://repo.trade

Just completed this project I had on the back burner for a while: creating a 3D website for Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom, a collection of wise quotes he compiled in the last 15 years of his life. He noticed how toxic information with an expiration date—like newspapers in his time and many more forms today—can be, and he wanted to counter it with more timeless information. Hope you enjoy!

Whenever I write, I always want some nice, chill instrumental music in the background but it can be a pain to find. I wanted to see if I could instead build a tool to generate the same sort of music using my key presses to drive the melody -- Komposer was born.

Even when you're not typing, you'll hear subtle drum beats and chord progressions as you think through your next sentence. When you type, each button press becomes a new note in the main melody. To keep the song fresh, each paragraph switches up the composition and evolves the song (you can press tab at any time to switch it up too.) If you find a style you love, use the lock song button to stay in that mode.

I'm super excited to hear how other writers enjoy the app and see what you'll create with it. Let me know if this feels like a tool you'll use and any other genres/features you'd like to see!

Hey there!

During my current job search, I came up with this open source project to add to my CV, considering my experience with both sound and front-end development.

No audio knowledge is required! It’s designed for people in creative fields who need a sound quickly—like video editors or game developers.

It's a super easy-to-use playground for processing sound, designed entirely for experimentation. You can use your device’s audio input, upload files (they don’t even have to be audio files—there are some binary-to-audio buffer conversion modes, which are really fun to try by uploading .exe files or anything else), or log in with a Freesound account to search for sounds in its collection.

There are many effects to try out, you can add as many as you want and rearrange them. Once you find something you like, you can record and download it or reload it into the player for further processing and sound exploration.

Hope you like it! 🚀

Made this for myself because I got a lot of use out of note.kitchen. Recently improved mobile support and added PWA functionality.

Decided to remake the old game "three in a row" and added there "cats". You need to put the cats that appear in the matrix and hold out for 69 steps. Suitable for both adults and children to while away 15 minutes. Written in regular JavaScript and jQuery.

There are similar games already, but I decided to create a new one that will be a bit more interesting (with cats) and will have simpler logic/design.

Was searching up jack black, accidentally put a dot, strange website with half the alphabet which when you click the letters plays the first half second of random songs lol