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January 23, 2026

Sometimes You Just Need to Build Something That Doesn't Matter

Weird Little Joy Machines: small distractions for hard days.

So the world is a lot right now. You’ve noticed. I’ve noticed. We’re all just… yeah.

So the world is a lot right now. You’ve noticed. I’ve noticed. We’re all just… yeah.

Anyway, I made a website where you zoom infinitely into a potato. There’s another potato inside. And another. It’s potatoes all the way down. I don’t know what to tell you.

I also built 12 other pointless things, including: a Victorian ghost who gives you compliments, a button you hold for no reason, a PDF that's loading forever, and a generator that tells you why your cat is mad at you.

The whole project is called Weird Little Joy Machines. I wrote about why I built it and what's coming next.

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Or just go play: joy.stackandsignal.com

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