Howdy 🦞, what brings you to these parts? The <a href=“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3QEFQ9ZFis&t=34s” rel=“ugc”>music</a>? The tents? The announcement? Fellow talking lobsters? This post? Oh, why yes, that. Welcome to our wonderful blog carnival! We’ve been working on this for days, weeks, months, years, decades, our entire lives really! Of course, that makes things a tad competitive, but in the end we’re making this all for ourselves. You see, you don’t need users, usefulness etc. to create. But the first rule of f… Well, from the goodness of our hearts, we’d like to inspire you with our <a href=“https://jasonbrownlee.me/blog/posts/hand-crafted-code/” rel=“ugc”>artisanal, hand-crafted</a> and <a href=“https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/” rel=“ugc”>home-cooked</a> software! As everyone knows, the more chefs in the kitchen, the merrier! Oh, where was I? Who was I? Veqq. Digressing, oh, yes! There’s true joy when the: <blockquote> programmer reserves the right to change requirements on a whim </blockquote> Keep that in mind while you look around. We have many stalls and welcome you pitch up a table too, right now! Don’t be shy! Win a prize, every time! Do you like:
- Improving your life? Just <a href=“https://samuel.karp.dev/blog/2025/09/writing-software-for-myself/” rel=“ugc”>write software</a>! Really, just write a lot, <a href=“https://zerotrickpony.com/articles/software-for-one/” rel=“ugc”>just for you</a>!
- Real life? <a href=“https://robey.lag.net/2025/09/14/my-watchy.html” rel=“ugc”>Carry your software</a> with you!
- Books and logging things? Make your own Goodreads and track <a href=“https://fpsvogel.com/posts/2025/goodreads-to-plain-text-csv-reading-log” rel=“ugc”>all the things</a>!
- Unbloated vBulletin forums? Keep your community <a href=“https://lannysport.net/writing/ten-years-of-iss.html” rel=“ugc”>oldschool</a> today! Lobsters <a href=“https://imgur.com/a/lobsters-migrated-to-phpbb-april-fools-day-2018-83uDx” rel=“ugc”>dabbled</a> but is going a bit <a href=“https://imgur.com/a/lobsters-april-fool-s-prank-2015-7SiOw” rel=“ugc”>further</a> <a href=“https://lobste.rs/s/rxxkly/lobsters_platform_migration_complete” rel=“ugc”>back</a>.
- Idling in IRC? Weaponize it into an in-person <a href=“https://octet-stream.net/b/scb/2025-09-01-idlerpg-at-a-lan-party.html” rel=“ugc”>RPG</a>!
- Music? Just build a nifty home <a href=“https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2025/musium” rel=“ugc”>streaming</a> system!
- Videos? <a href=“https://blog.edwardloveall.com/playing-youtube-anywhere-but-youtube” rel=“ugc”>Stream</a> youtube videos on your own player! Might as well <a href=“https://tia.mat.br/posts/2025/08/30/forth-haiku.html” rel=“ugc”>bootstrap a Forth</a> for while you’re at it!
- Automating the boring work? Turns out Python can just <a href=“https://sny.sh/hypha/blog/tasks” rel=“ugc”>do Jira for you</a>!
- Secrecy? Why not <a href=“https://blog.gabornyeki.com/2024-11-hiding-a-message-in-my-pytorch-weights/” rel=“ugc”>hide messages</a> in PyTorch weights? Then <a href=“https://log.schemescape.com/posts/diy/expense-classifier.html” rel=“ugc”>track your finances</a> without trusting anyone else!
- Old stories? Check out this <a href=“https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/fond-memories-of-a-high-school-personal-project-cross-country-race-analysis/” rel=“ugc”>hand-written</a> code and see how a teenager plans better than corporate today, even on a 1st Python project!
- Scope creep? Learn how Elm <a href=“https://thetechenabler.substack.com/p/something-i-made-for-myself-hiraeth” rel=“ugc”>inspires then forces</a> you to birth new languages!
- Drawing? <a href=“https://riki.house/netcanv” rel=“ugc”>Paint with friends</a>!
What have you made for yourself? You wouldn’t recommend it, because it’s not useful to others? I’m sure you’re wrong and it’ll make our days, which is a mighty fine use indeed! I’d buy that for a dollar! (In case, I missed any, I have supplied additional excitement and exclamation marks for all your <a href=“https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Pickle_for_the_Knowing_Ones/Punctuation” rel=“ugc”>punctuaciousy needs</a>. !!!¡¡¡¡ !¡¡!!! !¡!¡¡!!¡ !¡¡!!!¡)