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Vanessa Victorino | Dev

@grauconejo13.bsky.social
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Software dev building apps, experiments & odd little internet things. Code · design · places worth capturing.

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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Inspired by Steven Wright quote, I charted an optimistic walk from Alaska to Argentina as if it were a casual stroll. 🥾🌎 Then I Googled it and found three people documenting walks along the route. Awesome. #CodePenChallenge codepen.io/editor/grauc...
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The Long Way South: A Walking-Time Experiment
An extremely optimistic walk from Alaska to Argentina. Adjust the snack and meal breaks to see how far 22,000 km stretches across the calendar. The Da
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Playing with a little 3D-ish card interaction 🃏⚡ Hover the card and it falls flat while the creature stays upright. codepen.io/editor/grauc...
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Card Shift: 3D-ish
A tiny Kanto collection where illustrated Pokémon cards fold into platforms and their dimensional counterparts rise upright above them. Hover a card—o
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Field-testing Object-Sight Hecate outdoors today. My phone’s camera feeds a Vercel page, and Tailscale Serve connects it to the vision model on my laptop. The detection boxes update as I move. Dog ✅ potted plant ✅ car ✅ blue trash bin confidently identified as a toilet 🚽😂 Prototype has opinions.
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Apparently it’s computer vision week over here. 😅 Currently collaborating on another CV project while also working on my own. Somehow I keep ending up surrounded by cameras, tracking, and questionable amounts of OpenCV.
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ESP32-CAM with a swapped wider lens — powered by USB-C and questionable amounts of sour candy.
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
She barely spends money on herself. Unfortunately, “herself” apparently excludes all 37 of her hobbies. 😂 Separate issue: I’m building an ESP32-CAM computer vision prototype for a hackathon.
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Weekend frequency. 🎧
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Finally, rain after what feels like months. Petrichor rising from the dry earth, the whole place smelling alive again. 🌧️ Meanwhile, the plants have spent the last few weeks looking like Victorian children: “Please sir, may I have some more?” 🥀😂
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Still laughing because my friend is out here building a robot on wheels whose entire purpose appears to be driving around the house and roasting his wife and kids. 😂🤖 Not cleaning. Not delivering snacks. Not improving quality of life. Just autonomous household harassment with computer vision.
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The unfinished task 👻 You only needed to change one button. Then came font hunting, redesigning, framework research, doomscrolling, and snacks. The chart has receipts. The task follows you. codepen.io/grauconejo13... #CodePenChallenge #CreativeCoding
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The Ghost of Those Darn Superimportant Tasks
You only needed to change one button. Then came the fonts, the redesign, the framework research, and the doomscrolling. The bar chart keeps the receip
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Do you remember the 21st night of September? 🪩✨ What? Dancing. Happy September 21st. 😂🔥🌎💨 #EarthWindAndFire #September #Pudgy
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Created an audio clipper to shorten songs. You know I love this kind of thing: build your own tools. There are already apps out there, but many come with ads, subscriptions, or extra friction. Nothing wrong with that. I just wanted something that worked the way I wanted it to. So I built my own. 🎧
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Testing a learning assistant I’m building for myself. My Learning Assistant: “What is AWS IAM?” Me: “My ego, it’s who I am.” AI understanding score: 10% Harsh, but fair. 😂
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Pengu Pudgy's Self-Love Mirror Moment
ALT: Pengu Pudgy's Self-Love Mirror Moment
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Joined the statewide Texas Coast Cleanup yesterday. Did my part, filled a bag, got roasted by Texas. Somehow the heat was more exhausting than the actual cleanup. 😂 Everyone did their part. That guy? Fishing.
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That was exactly the goal 😅 I wanted CALL-E to sit inside a real workflow instead of being the whole demo. Appreciate this.
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Currently at work. 🔥✈️ The phoenix has apparently reclaimed the space.
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
First live test of my OpenCV 5 hackathon project. Detection, tracking + basic spatial positioning are working. 9 o’clock → left 12 o’clock → ahead 3 o’clock → right Still early. Next: temporal movement + spatial reasoning. 🕷️
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Baked Majority 🥧 A completely unserious exercise in baked governance, voting power, and pie supremacy. CodePen Challenge: pie & donut charts. #CodePenChallenge #CreativeCoding codepen.io/editor/grauc...
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Baked Majority
Six pies convene to settle the most important matter of baked governance: who deserves supremacy? Explore the council, inspect each member’s voting po
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
setInterval(() => questionReality(), 3000); // learning computer vision
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Currently working on Tomorrow Is Calling — yes, another hackathon project. 😅 Appropriate that it’s due tomorrow. It’s a vehicle transport coordination app using React + TypeScript + Vite + Node.js + CALL-E for AI-assisted customer calls, confirmations, and call summaries. Finishing up tonight.
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I haven't drawn in a long time, but found some old drawings and ended up sketching this for about 15 minutes tonight. Then I gave it to AI to see how it would interpret it. The top was inspired by a fashion magazine image I remembered. Fun seeing what survived the translation. 😅
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Testing CALL-E tonight. Set up the API and called my own number to test my app. Failed a few times, then… ~15 sec later, my phone rang. A British-sounding female voice read the script: “Vanessa, this is a test. Tomorrow is calling.” I stayed quiet. “Can you hear me?” “Yes.” “Thank you. Bye.” 😂
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
On occasion, my mind wanders to the question, “Is there an app for that?” Which immediately reminded me of that NCIS scene where McGee wonders if there’s an app to get into the locked house — and Gibbs uses his flip phone instead. 😅 My takeaway: if it solves the problem, it’s effective.
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Listening to How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley. I like the idea that innovation is usually less “lightning bolt” and more iteration, tinkering, and things slowly getting better.
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
CodePen Challenge: flowchart. I only needed one quick answer. Then came another tab, a related link, a video, the comments, and something vaguely related. You know how this goes. 😂 #codepenchallenge #cpc-flowchart codepen.io/editor/grauc...
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Just One Quick Search
A hand-drawn interactive flowchart about how one quick search turns into too many tabs, unrelated videos, comment sections, and a complete loss of the
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
How are you today? Meanwhile… seriously? At work. A Great-tailed Grackle supervised operations, and there was a scorpion in the toilet paper roll. 😂
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
MVP for an Agentic Cinema hackathon. 🎬 Built with Gemini, Google ADK, Cloud Run, Firestore, ClickHouse + MCP, Next.js, TypeScript, Vercel. Debugging took a while thanks to one tiny t vs. l typo and a 7 PERMISSION_DENIED error. Demo video updated with captions and actual working outputs. Connected.
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Cursive tangent: will young kids read old handwritten letters someday? That somehow turned into why Americans write color, not colour. I’d heard it saved press money; actually, it was language reform. Still, imagine: BRB, YOLO, and “u” in an 1828 dictionary. Webster would be horrified, probably.
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still listening to Ransomware Team, so today’s U.K. air-traffic-control disruption has my brain doing threat-modeling laps. It’s being reported as a technical issue—not a confirmed cyberattack—but the timing makes the audiobook feel less like nonfiction and more like ambient context. ✈️🔐
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Love this book. Apparently it’s 21 years old now. Still occasionally flipping through my notes on ATP and photosynthesis. What do I love most about it? It makes a perfect paperweight and, judging by the weight, possibly a defensive weapon. Haven’t tested that feature yet. 😂
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
These days, I try not to open news links from social-media posts. I asked AI to check out a URL for me instead. I’m not allergic to cream cheese. I’m allergic to UX with cream-cheese-thick layers of ads.
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
One thing I like about experimenting with different software structures: unfamiliar tech starts feeling less intimidating. Once I build something small with it, I start recognizing familiar concepts — just arranged differently. Web3 has been a good example. Still confused, just less intimidated. 🤔
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Saturday mood. 🎵 Los Angeles — The Midnight
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Self-education side quest: Web3. ⛓️ Built & compiled my first Solidity smart contract tonight—a guestbook. Learning by mapping Web3 to what I know: wallet → identity/signing contract → backend logic ABI → interface Sepolia → testnet Still learning. That's the point. 🐇 See you later, ComfyUI. 😂
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
When political pride starts dictating trade policy, lower-income households often end up paying the highest price. 🤔
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Throwback Thursday. I was looking through old CodePens for a demo concept I could reuse on my landing page and stumbled across this lyric-sync experiment I made for Loreena McKennitt’s The Highwayman. Completely forgot I made this. Circa February 2025. 😅 codepen.io/grauconejo13...
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Lyric Sync: The Ghostly Galleon - Though Hell Should Bar the Way
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Built a peaceful scenic experience. Then I remembered those news pages where you’re reading something interesting and a pop-up decides it is suddenly the most important thing on the screen. So I made that too. codepen.io/editor/grauc...
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Time crunch mode. 😅 Frontend: Next.js on Vercel. Backend: Python on Google Cloud Run — my first Python-heavy backend deployment. Built Relay Agent for a hackathon: AI that turns messy shift notes into reviewed handoff tasks. Shipped. 🚀
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We are still in the cornfield. 🌽 Pudgy investigated corn and discovered it has entirely too many jobs. Food. Ethanol. Bioplastics. Biomass. Suspiciously overqualified. codepen.io/editor/grauc...
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Pudgy Reviews Corn: Suspiciously Overqualified
Pudgy investigates a crop that somehow ended up with jobs in food, ethanol, bioplastics, and biomass. What begins with popcorn quickly becomes an agri
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Mostly building in public: apps, CodePen experiments, hackathons, UI/UX thoughts, and whatever weird thing I’m testing. Also expect art, travel, hardware, arts & crafts, and short video edits because apparently I cannot stay in one lane. Main idea: share my progress and what I create. 😅
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Me: “Got another idea. I created another GitHub repo. Let’s build it.” ChatGPT: “You do not need another repo.” disappears into the cornfield 🌽
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Shared a Pudgy CodePen about ad tracking after he clicked one plague doctor mask out of curiosity. codepen.io/editor/grauc...
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Pudgy Reviews Ad Tracking: I Was Curious for Eight Seconds
One innocent click on a medieval plague doctor mask and suddenly the internet has decided Pudgy needs leather satchels, quills, castle tapestries, and
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Built Trust No Server for a CodePen challenge this week. A fictional secure-message terminal with a very questionable sense of paranoia and a little X-Files nostalgia. 😅 Mostly an excuse to play with dark UI, terminal styling, and tiny interaction details. codepen.io/editor/grauc...
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📨 Trust No Server
Mulder sends one suspicious email. The FBI network insists the recipient doesn’t exist. Naturally, Mulder considers this evidence. Scully disagrees. A
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Working on setting up Gemini AI for a hackathon project tonight. Also, I am known to code while I cure my UV resin. 😂
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Friend is training a small AI model. Friend, you better not be training the next Skynet. 😂
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Audiobook: "The Ransomware Hunting Team" About: Volunteer security experts helping ransomware victims recover their data without paying. Thoughts: Pretty cool. Now I’m thinking about backups, recovery, access, and how to better protect app data. 😅
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This ridiculous little 1999 email signature got picked by CodePen 😂 I had way too much fun making it. Dial-up, AIM handles, visitor counters, blinking status lights, and absolutely zero restraint. codepen.io/editor/grauc...
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You’ve Got Mail, Unfortunately
A gloriously chaotic throwback email signature inspired by the late-’90s web — glitter text, AIM handles, visitor counters, tiny badges, inspirational
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Pudgy Reviews Sibiu, Romania 👀 Beautiful old town. Suspicious rooftops. Fortunately, Pudgy brought binoculars. #CodePen #Frontend #WebDesign #Sibiu codepen.io/editor/grauc...
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Pudgy Reviews™ — Sibiu: The Buildings Are Watching
A code demo by Vanessa Victorino created on CodePen
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Working on multiple personal projects + 2 hackathon projects. 😅 Currently sharing: Bug & Friction Scanner — a tool that checks websites for things that may confuse or frustrate users. Not just “does it work?” but “is it annoying to use?”
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Continuing my highly accredited certification program. Today: Certified Professional Loafer. 🦶 One step closer to that AWS cert. codepen.io/editor/grauc...
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Certified Professional Loafer 🐧
Officially certified in leaning, lounging, and avoiding unnecessary productivity. Pudgy has completed absolutely no training for this position.
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