An egg decoder!!

and a t-shirt so absurd you might just buy it

*exhales*

It’s been a minute friends!!! I suppose growing, birthing and taking care of a child will take you off of the internet rabbit holes for quite some time. Worth it.

The good news is that I’M BACK. Kinda.

Words are hard these days. I’m out of shape and it’s hard to flex my brain that way. Actually it’s hard to use my brain at all these days. Here’s how it feels:

art by me.

The silver lining is that it’s been a lot of fun to draw again. I’ve even made it a personal goal to publish more artwork this year. God speed future DPo!!! I’m rooting for you.

Right now I’m riding out the “sharp, focused, strong like bull” energy. Aka I have like 45 minutes before mush enters the mix.

Here are some projects I’ve been meaning to share with you all. Equal parts useful and absurd, my favorite ratio.

Let’s dig innnn.

An Absurd T-Shirt I Made 8 Months Pregnant

Soon after the egg edition I thought it’d be hilarious to make a t-shirt with the excel egg buying chart on it (reminder, this chart defined every label you may run into while buying eggs, ie organic, certified humane, etc).

The ~*vision~* is that you could wear this shirt while buying eggs and the person next to you could use you as a cheat sheet when choosing their own.

I had a lot of fun with the front of the shirt too. I was 8 months pregnant and it felt right.

The front:

The back:

I wish you could have seen peoples’ faces when I wore this insanely pregnant and in public. Unfortunately no one asked me about my eggs :(

Do you want one??? Why?

You egg freak you.

Generally speaking though, I think t-shirts are an underrated marketing tool. It’s fun to be extremely obvious…. and you never know who may read it?????

Here’s my janky prototype for my own marketing t-shirt:

Maybe you’re looking for a job and make a t-shirt that says, “I’m looking for a job, here’s my website/resume/etc”. Or maybe you’re a photographer who wants to photograph couples at city hall, so you camp out there all day in a t-shirt that says, “$100 for wedding photos”. Etc etc.

Egg Decoding App

I realize that not everyone will ever memorize the egg buying chart (but you should), or buy the t-shirt (though you should???)… So why not actually help by making a tool where you can upload a pic of your eggs and it’ll decode it.

I’ve had a vision to make this for a long time, but never the technical skills. Now with AI agents you can build something like this in hours, without writing a line of code! Pretty epic.

It’s a magical time for us if-only-i-knew-an-engineer-to-make-this type builders. And you best believe I’m capitalizing.

“SF is SO BACK” - She says in her thrifted patagonia down vest with a “facebook” logo stitched on it. Quietly muttering, “this is so vintage.”

Just last week I stepped in poop and made a fake website in 20 minutes using chatgpt for a poop shoe cleaning service.

I actually think this could be a solid business idea. Anyone know someone who wants to clean poop full time???

Chatgpt is pretty softcore at building apps and even websites. So I took my pseudo talents to Replit. It worked really really really well. Until it didn’t.

They have an agent AI where you can chitchat and shoot the shit about your egg idea (or any other, much better idea) and boom, a wild prototype appears. From there you just message back and forth, debugging, iterating etc.

Lol, “debugging”… look at me go.

Hours 1-3 were pure building bliss. Then it kept getting wonkier and buggier. When you modify the core design, it starts to hallucinate and generally gets worse.

The solution here was probably to start from scratch with a better prompt, but alas I was in too deep and felt like I was one tweak away from fixing it. You never are. So I quit perfection and went with “good enough”. Proud of me.

Almost me, but not me

I’m happy with the prototype and damn-it-I-need-finally-publish-this-edition.

Here’s a demo of what I built - it’s 9 seconds pls indulge:

Non food related plug, but if you’re into AI stuff or just curious about building you should come to a healthcare hackathon we’re putting together at Out-Of-Pocket. Apply by 02/20/25.

It’s clearly not ready for public consumption (she reminds herself that wasn’t the point), but I do think it’s a fun way to think about how we interact with our food labels. In some future state you could videotape your eggs while shopping or we just go nuclear and expand this concept throughout every aisle.

Basically you can build a supermarket walking tour.

There are 2 routes, either you scan items to learn about them, or for our analog folks, you make an audio tour version. Just punch “103” to hear all about eggs.

How annoying would this be to other shoppers? So ridiculous I may just do it.

For now this will live in the Replit dungeon, filed under projects-that-were-more-fun in-my-head-than-in-reality.

Since it’s not live to you, you should probably just buy the t-shirt? Or read the edition.

What I’m cooking:

I miss sharing my food pics and have been trying to get off Instagram for my ~*mental health~*.

I’m deep in a Baked by Melissa vortex these days. Highly recommend for salad lovers and veggie leaning folks.

Here’s a lentil salad from her cookbook (w/ a pic of the recipe). It was a bit cumbersome, but worth the ROI, especially if you batch make the dressing. It can definitely hold in the fridge for a few days (just don’t mix in the dressing).

Note that I swapped the brussels sprouts for arugula, but the gist was the same.

*scrolled thru 100 baby photos to find 1 food one*

Other places to follow her: paid substack, Instagram, her blog, which tends to be my go-to for recipes though it’s painful to navigate. Highly highly recommend the baked french toast.

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Alright crew, thanks for tuning in. I miss you all dearly and uberly grateful to be back in your inbox.

Much love,

Mama DPo

PS - I’m taking suggestions for my next deep dive - what food question has been on your mind these days? Please no more eggs.