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Somehow on dating apps my most successful profile line has been “Message me if you want to learn an interesting fact about toast.” This led to me “researching” a lot of facts about toast and getting deeper and deeper into the bit. Long story short I now run toastfacts.com. I only have about 7 facts on there right now, but I “discovered” some more good facts last night which I plan to add to the site when I get home.
I wrote up a simple web app that accepted two different secrets to "login" (one for each person). Once logged in, you were presented with a photo and asked for a comment (first thing that comes to mind or a reaction).
If only one comment was submitted, it would tell you to remind your partner to leave a comment. Once both parties submitted a comment, the photo displayed with both comments and a countdown to the next photo. The countdown varied from 12-48 hours randomly - to give me time to figure out when to actually propose. This ran for several weeks total.
It was fun to see our comments - sometimes they would nearly match. Or reveal something we didn't remember about a historical date/event we shared.
I eventually used the site to pop the question, and then made the whole thing into a photo book, including a word cloud built from each of our comments. Was really fun to see each of our most common words.
It was an incredibly simple, fun project using flask/sqlite on an ec2 instance.
I had some spare time and decided to code something small that would be a fun timewaster with some inside jokes.
Not sappy honeymoon-period love (eros), but the long-term-commitment version of love that requires sacrificing my personal preferences in exchange for providing for my wife's and children's material needs (storge / agape).
Obviously I'm not unique in my willingness to do this. But looking back on my own life, the honeymoon-period love is bush-league.
I created an extremely simple wedding website for our day https://github.com/intenscia/Wedding
She likes jigsaw so I printed a photo of us from back when we met on a generated multiple-of-24 piece jigsaw pattern to cut.
But that was a bit too simple. She enjoyed playing Human Resource Machine which was the closest she ever got to programming.
So on the back, I printed IOCCC-style Ruby code shaped in the form of a Christmas tree. With the pieces cut out and jumbled, you’d have no idea what the code would look like without solving the front side.
Once solved, when typed and run, it would reveal an URL to a XKCD-style drawing I made for the occasion.
It was tough to make code not too short nor too long, not too complex nor obvious, and able to survive the jigsaw cutting! Anyway, she enjoyed it through and through.
A quick extra en passant, a bash one liner I quickly banged out some years ago: https://github.com/lloeki/toolbelt/blob/master/hearts
It hasn’t gotten as much traction as I’d hoped, but I still had fun making it and spending way too much time on that pixel art that perhaps no one will ever see...
We dated for a while, was a lot of fun.
We could either pick the set project or any other project that would demonstrate what they didn't specify was the language (assuming people would use the one taught in class) so I did a VT100 emulator in Object Pascal and she did the set assignment in the taught language (sadly VB6).