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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 · 21h
I've heard of Minecraft but never played it. Then I discovered The Uncensored Library. Wait, what? A virtual library inside Minecraft that gives people access to censored journalism in countries where information is restricted. What a creative use of technology! Another rabbit hole to explore.
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The last light at Mount Rainier. 🌄🌲 A sea of clouds below, peaceful silence above. Then came the descent through dark, winding forest roads. Visibility: LOW. Vehicles: 4 (extra headlights). CPU: 100%. Survival mode: ACTIVE. At least the trees offered psychological guardrails. 🤣
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Edinburgh Zoo's penguin parade, a 75-year-old tradition, is back as the “Wee Waddle”! 🐧 Featuring: 🎖️ Sir Nils Olav, the military penguin. 🤣 Kevin, the notorious shoelace-nipper, previously banned for bad behavior. Apparently, Kevin's getting another chance. Will he behave this time? 🤔
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
From today's reading: Walmart's warehouse automation. 🤖⚡ • Goal: Reduce human labor costs. • Reality: Robots have limitations. • Side effect: Electricity bills reportedly jumped from $250K to $800K+ monthly at some facilities. Is automation reducing costs or simply shifting them elsewhere? 🤔
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ghost Jam 👻🎛️ A Halloween FizzBuzz remix where Boo, Scary, and BooScary light up the grid while a ghost band takes over the stage. Built for this week’s CodePen Jest challenge. #codepenchallenge #cpc-halloween-fizzbuzz codepen.io/editor/grauc...
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Ghost Jam
A Halloween FizzBuzz remix where 100 Boo, Scary, and BooScary cases become a glowing party wall behind a ghost band, complete with looping audio, reac
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As the fog rolls in over the alpine meadow and the valley below, shrouding Mount Rainier at the end of the day. 🌫️
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A small reminder from the feed to look up once in a while. Love these birches. 🍂
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is a gag. Please take it seriously. 🤭 We need your vote. Cast thy vote: codepen.io/editor/grauc...
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The Porcelain Decree: The Doomscrolling Infrastructure Act
A solemn civic petition demanding that public restrooms finally enter the smartphone age. Phone shelves. Bidets. Charging ports. Proper bag hooks. Rel
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Attended an Applied AI hackathon in San Diego today with around 80 coders, building around real workflows for personal injury law firms. Six hours of coding, legal-tech problem solving and somehow the day ended with an outdoor concert. 😅
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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
That explains the very confident toilet 😂 Only 80 COCO object categories, and no bin! I’m looking at broader categories for the next iteration. The blue bin has become a useful test case.
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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 · 27/09/2026
Maybe part of the tension is that uncertainty magnifies fear. When a new tool affects work and identity, people start asking whether using it is cheating, what should be delegated, and what still needs to be understood deeply.
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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
That’s one way to turn a demonstration into situational irony.
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fair point. Targeted roasting is technically a personalized service. 😂 Snack delivery can wait for v2.
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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 · 23/09/2026
Surely you haven’t seen what they have over at Engrish.com. 😂
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Engrish.com - Documenting the Engrish phenomenon from East Asia and around the world!
Documenting the Engrish phenomenon from East Asia and around the world!
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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
Yes, that is true. Funny how self-control increases when the rant is attached to your real name. Give people anonymity and suddenly the five-minute draft gets posted. 😂 There are usually ways to get the same message across without sounding like a jackassss.
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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
The grey rabbit continues. 🐇✨
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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
Did you happen to check The Cynic’s Dictionary? Tradition: an old habit everyone is too polite to question.
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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
Honestly, that looks less like evidence and more like entrepreneurial spirit.
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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
According to Anthropic prophecy… 👀
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Vanessa Victorino | Dev @grauconejo13.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Is this how Skynet starts? 🫢
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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
For context: there actually was a separate cyberattack involving three UK airports on Aug. 27. About 8.7M customer records were accessed, although airport operations and aviation safety weren't affected. Unrelated to today's reported technical failure — just an interesting bit of timing.
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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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