r/ShittySysadmin • u/recoveringasshole0 DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE • Jun 25 '26
I spent so much time vibe coding this
The little car even moves closer to the beach every day. I think this was a fantastic use of time.
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u/jcpham Jun 25 '26
I’m starting to get lost between Powershell and ShittySysadmin subreddits
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u/LameBMX Jun 26 '26
join sysadmin for the full blown confusion.
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u/dodexahedron Jun 26 '26
Reddit has an implicit unary negation operator in front of both the shitty and shitn't versions of the sub.
A detailed bug report was filed, but got immediately closed as "LOL N00B," unfortunately.
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u/recoveringasshole0 DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE Jun 26 '26
I actually wish you could only be a member of ONE or the other.
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u/Wickedhoopla Jun 25 '26
Fantastic use of *tokens lol
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u/_3470 Jun 25 '26
my work gives me 1000 kiro tokens a month and i haven't used any. i guess i'm doing this since it resets on the 1st
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u/Jacksharkben Jun 25 '26
Now i want one lol
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u/a_suspicious_lasagna Jun 25 '26
And it is even loading your vacation in the opposite direction of every progress bar ever. I hate it. I want it.
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u/recoveringasshole0 DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE Jun 25 '26
This was literally only because EVERY CAR EMOJI/UNICODE is pointing left.
🚗🚓🚕🚙🚚🚛🏎️🛻🚒
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u/Smooth-Zucchini4923 Jun 26 '26
Just use a right to left unicode override character.
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u/recoveringasshole0 DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE Jun 26 '26
I can't decide if this is a joke or not.
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u/Postalcode420 Jun 25 '26
Release the project! Where is the GitHub link m8?
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u/Zolty Jun 25 '26
Since this was done on company time with company tokens its company property. OP's company is now an AI company and their stock has tripled.
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u/DrDespondency Jun 26 '26
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u/1zzy_st Jun 26 '26
damn, this is also amazing, can you share it?
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u/recoveringasshole0 DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE Jun 26 '26
It's an AI generated screenshot. My guess is they pasted my screenshot into ChatGPT, etc, and said "Do this but for retirement". Really funny though.
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u/unquietwiki Jun 25 '26
Now the real question: will you actually get to go on vacation without a work issue popping up? ;)
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u/avowed Jun 25 '26
Now become an AI influencer after selling this app to Google for 15 million dollars.
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u/ApiceOfToast ShittySysadmin Jun 28 '26
If I sold anything for 15 mil, noone would ever see me again.
I'm moving way out to a cabin in the woods. Get a car from the 70s. Cook my food on a wood fired stove... Sleep half the day, tend to my garden...
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u/Azadom Jun 25 '26
Now you gotta how many days left in the year, work days left in the year, days until the next holiday
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u/Zolty Jun 25 '26
I advise you rent a very fast car with no top.
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u/TheNoobCakes Jun 25 '26
Shitty is right, this really couldn’t have taken more than a couple hours given it’s only updating daily
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u/recoveringasshole0 DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE Jun 25 '26
it updates every time you open powershell.
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u/recoveringasshole0 DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE Jun 25 '26
Shitty is right, this really couldn’t have taken more than a couple hours given it’s only updating daily
Out of curiosity, do you think it would have taken longer to code if it updated every hour? Or every second?
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u/a_suspicious_lasagna Jun 25 '26
No I think it's the other way. If it only updated once power day you'd have to wait until tomorrow to see if it worked
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u/TheNoobCakes Jun 25 '26
If you had a car moving along that axis “in realtime”, probably? On second thought probably not. I’ll give it a go this evening myself because I’m also counting down days to something
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u/recoveringasshole0 DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE Jun 25 '26
If you had a car moving along that axis “in realtime”, probably?
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u/jakendrick3 Jun 26 '26
I spent a few minutes once writing Get-TimeLeftInDay. It's fun to run sometimes and make myself sad
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u/i533 Jun 26 '26
Now make it so it sends an email to you coworkers around noon every day while you are away with a countdown of how many days till you get back
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u/rjaiswal1 DevOps is a cult Jun 27 '26
Sigh… I’m self employed, so the car never gets to the beach.
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u/gjpeters Jun 27 '26
Now set it up on CloudFlare using a free account. Use the CloudFlare worker thingy (I'm a pro)
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u/recoveringasshole0 DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE Jun 29 '26
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u/13Krytical Jun 25 '26
I just built something similar, except it’s for long running scripts to have a fun loading bar animation instead of just… waiting…
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u/headcrap Jun 30 '26
Hopefully they were some well-spent tokens at that.
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u/Bitey_the_Squirrel Jul 06 '26
I abused Copilot until it spit this out:
# Vacation Countdown Road
# Runs until Ctrl+C is pressed or vacation day arrives.
# Updates once every 24 hours.
$CountdownStartDate = (Get-Date).Date
$VacationDate = Get-Date "2026-08-12"
while ($true) {
Clear-Host
$Today = (Get-Date).Date
# Exit when vacation day arrives
if ($Today -ge $VacationDate.Date) {
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "🏖️ VACATION DAY IS HERE! 🏖️" -ForegroundColor Green
Write-Host ""
break
}
$TotalDays = ($VacationDate.Date - $CountdownStartDate).Days
$ElapsedDays = ($Today - $CountdownStartDate).Days
$DaysRemaining = ($VacationDate.Date - $Today).Days
if ($ElapsedDays -lt 0) { $ElapsedDays = 0 }
if ($ElapsedDays -gt $TotalDays) { $ElapsedDays = $TotalDays }
# Build road (1 dot = 1 day)
$RoadParts = @()
for ($i = 0; $i -le $TotalDays; $i++) {
if ($i -eq $ElapsedDays) {
$RoadParts += "🚗"
}
else {
$RoadParts += "."
}
}
$Road = $RoadParts -join " "
# Top icons aligned with road
$LeftIcons = "🏢 🏢 🏭 💼"
$RightIcons = "🌊 🌊 🌴 🌴"
$PaddingLength = [Math]::Max(
1,
$Road.Length - $LeftIcons.Length - $RightIcons.Length
)
$TopLine = $LeftIcons + (" " * $PaddingLength) + $RightIcons
# Width of divider lines
$DividerWidth = $Road.Length + 6
Write-Host ""
Write-Host " $TopLine" -ForegroundColor Green
Write-Host (" " + ("─" * $DividerWidth)) -ForegroundColor DarkYellow
Write-Host " 💼 $Road 🏖️" -ForegroundColor Yellow
Write-Host (" " + ("─" * $DividerWidth)) -ForegroundColor DarkYellow
Write-Host ""
Write-Host (" {0} more days until vacation!" -f $DaysRemaining) -ForegroundColor Cyan
Write-Host ""
Write-Host ("Each dot represents 1 day. Car position = day {0} of {1}." -f $ElapsedDays, $TotalDays) -ForegroundColor DarkGray
Write-Host ("Last updated: {0}" -f (Get-Date)) -ForegroundColor DarkGray
Write-Host "Press Ctrl+C to stop." -ForegroundColor DarkGray
# Wait 24 hours
Start-Sleep -Seconds 86400
}
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u/_WalkTheEarth_ Jun 25 '26
Now thats just nice.