UPCOMING TALKS (4)
- Load Fast, Don’t Suck: Some Honest Advice For Core Web Vitals
Nobody's Sweetheart
Just a personal one-pager for an artist friend with some fun animations.
Megachurch Tycoon
Starting with no money and a crippling drug addiction, Megachurch Tycoon will have you preaching to larger and larger audiences, motivated by the only thing you believe in: Geting paid.
This Meeting Has Points
A game for 2-8 players to make work meetings slightly less terrible by giving everybody a reason to pay attention.
Try to slip one of the phrases on your card past the other players without them noticing. But if they catch you, they'll steal your card.
Comparatively Famous
This is a game about guessing the relative value of different celebrities on Cameo.
I built this one in about a week and a half.
PREVIOUS TALKS (65)
Invalid
A game for 2-8 players to suffer thru corporate onboarding hell by answering trivia questions.
Employees want to create a new password so they can get on with their lives. But the SysAdmin wants to make every employee's life difficult
SANE SCIENCE
Are you in need of documentation of your own sanity? Yes, of course you are. Well, this online exam is meant to provide just that: Answer our questions and you'll get a diagnosis on the other end.
Only one caveat: The exam is gaslighting you.
Is This Nicki Minaj?
There are so many things in this world, but can you tell which of them is Nicki Minaj? The answer may shake you to your very core!
No More Billionaires
Using the Forbes' Billionaires List (and public education statistics) as primary sources, this game allows you to improve the world every day by making five decisions.
PRETEND 🌐 WORLD
You are at a party of celebrity impersonators. You must try to guess who is pretending to be whom, in an effort to eat an entire cheese log before you are kicked out of the party.
damn.dog
The game that shows you an actual WikiHow illustration, and asks you which actual Wikihow article it came from.
Called “The Best Game On The Internet” by Gizmodo, this project has been the subject of literally hundreds of YouTube videos.
Sisyphus Clicker
In this clicker game, you tap on Sisyphus to roll the rock uphill. Once the rock gets near the top, it will roll back downhill.
Also, there are acheivements.
READY 🎤 ROCKS
My good friend Boots and I built our own karaoke softare. He built the Windows backend, I built the web PWA to handle signups.
Idiots win.
The game that challenges you to figure out what people are searching for on Google.
Idiots Win takes a search query, sends it to Google for autocomplete suggestions, then randomizes them and asks you to guess the top.
The Wrongest Words
The Wrongest Words has actually been rebuild several times along with the kinda.fun platform.
The goal of this one is to defend whatever stupid thing it says on your card.
That's Not Poutine.
Poutine is a dish made with french fries, fresh cheese curds and brown gravy.
This website showcases dishes which purport to be poutine, and yet fail that criteria.
BG2😎COOL
We've spent enough of our lives looking at flat, minimalist websites that all look art directed by the same person. Let's turn this ship around.
BG2COOL provides you with patterns and options. Make your choices, and the site will hand you some CSS.
Rick Ross Daily
Originally built as a Twitter Bot, this bot would share Rick Ross' thoughts every day, and every day? He was hustlin.
It was converted to a Mastodon bot in 2022, but it had to be retired when botsin.space shut down.
Great Sex Tips!
Birthed from a conversation about the editing process of Cosmo's sex tips, this is a site that generates hetero sex advice for women to please their men. How exhilerating!
Are you ready for this?
This is a very important website that asks if if you're ready for this. And if you are ready for this, appropriate measures will be taken.
Heelies Info
My friend likes the website Wookieepedia a lot and then he had a birthday. So I made a Wookieepedia page just for him.
Bad Accent Club
The mobile app that puts your friends' accents to the test (and they will usually fail the test).
Eventually removed from the app stores because, honestly, it was annoying to maintain. I might revisit this as a PWA some day.
Verifiable Win
Launched as part of a talk at NDC Minnesota 2018, this is a site to demonstrate you're right about whatever you think.
pl_swiftwater
In 2016, Valve bought the map and made it official.
Frank West Pronounces Emoticons
Frank West sometimes pronounces emoticons. And now, via this soundboard, he does it on your command.
Even in comparison to the other sites on this page, this one is really stupid.
Hamilton -> DOOM
Recent Firings In San Francisco
I wanted to make a site that would give the user up-the-second updates of who was just fired in the San Francisco Tech Industry.
In reality, it just works an alogorithm to generate random strings.
The F Plus
I do a podcast, and also work a fair amount on the website for that podcast, which is a complicated piece of web development.
That said, I'm pretty happy with how this whole thing works.
Me Making Websites IRL
Using an open source software called “Gource”, I made this 3.5 minute YouTube video documenting the process of building most of the websites on this list, set to a Paper Chase song.
Not incredibly informative, but fun to look at.