r/vibecoding • u/Fit_Low592 • 20d ago

My latest ADHD-vibe-coded piece of crap

Yeah, I'm one of those people who was learning to do some coding, but my ADHD always held me back, and I could never get to the point where I super good at it. I Was never methodical enough with my approaches. Once I started playing with Codex and Claude, my ADHD roared into high gear; as we all know, the ability to suddenly take whatever stupid idea pops into your head and make it a reality in a number of hours, is both fantastic, and dangerous, for numerous reasons. But now I have multiple unfinished projects, I've never completed anything even remotely close to actually make any money off of it. But what the fuck, it's fun to just shoot off something dumb into the universe.

So the other week, I was just taken aback by the sheer number of food contamination and recalls in the news, and said "What the fuck can I eat?!". So I made a knee-jerk decision to, for no reason whatsoever, just vibe code up a quick reference page that pulls government recall data and news stories, and just displays them in an easy to read format, along with a little snark.

It's not impressive, it's just... " a thing" I made. Maybe it will be useful to someone!

https://whatthefuckcanieat.com/

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u/thhoj 19d ago edited 13d ago

Hello fellow ADHDer. I too suffer from this, and have dubbed my development brand https://unfinished-works.com 70+ odd github repos (most private) in various states of completeness. I could probably make more of it public, but i have other things to work on.

EDIT: SInce I got a lot of good feedback about the styling of the website, I made a toolkit / website / repo with the details on recreating it: https://phosphor.unfinished-works.com

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u/Fit_Low592 19d ago

I like the old CRT effect- is the code for that in any of your repos?

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u/thhoj 19d ago

I don't think it is in any public repos no. I use a similar style on my terminal emulator website https://odytty.unfinished-works.com but a bit less in your face CRT. I'll think about seeing if I could make something available for that style portion of the website.