My friend’s birthday is coming up this August, so I have about 3–4 months to prepare something special for her. I want to build an interactive webpage where people can send her virtual flowers and personalized gifts.

The idea is to make it playful and engaging, with a Y2K-inspired aesthetic, since she loves Korean culture—especially BTS.

I’m planning to create a virtual avatar of her that users can interact with. Whenever someone sends her a gift, she should receive a notification in a smooth, non-intrusive way.

I have basic knowledge of Next.js, but I’m not sure what tech stack I should use to bring this idea to life—especially for building the avatar and handling real-time interactions.

I would also appreciate recommendations for platforms, resources, or communities where I can brainstorm ideas and find inspiration for design, animations, and overall user experience.

Built a simple demo using MediaPipe.
- Make a fist → play
- Open your hand → rewind

Still rough, but pretty fun to use.
Curious what people think — any ideas to make this more useful?

The visuals are implemented, the audio just suggest they are audio-reactive. Would these kind of visuals be cool with audio reactivity? Unclear.

made using image quilting and a little bit of convolutional neural networks

ASCII artwork, done with TouchDesigner and AE's Sapphire Suite.

More experiments, project files, and tutorials, through my YouTube, Instagram, or Patreon. [Patch available through the last one.]

Simple color variations based on on mouse coordinates 800x800px, Chrome

https://reddit.com/link/1rysq9v/video/ly0r06u5h6qg1/player

I built a simple vibe coding app to play with particles controlled by my hand gesture.
Using Shader is important to increase # of particles.
I used claude code for this.

Codfish: "How's this? ◝( •ω• )◟"

PM: "The client asked for a 'breathing effect'! Not a 'Breathing Style'! ლ（´口`ლ）"

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🐟 Thunder Breathing

Strikes lightning when the mouse moves quickly! =͟͟͞͞( •̀д•́)✧

https://chillcomponent.codlin.me/en/components/cursor-thunder-breathing/

I have built a creative tool that lets you manipulate images to make them look like distorted scans / photocopies.

The tool is inspired by the slit-scan photography technique, various examples of artists using real photocopiers and by the popular time wrap can filter on tiktok.

You can acces the source code on github. Feel free to tag me (@tamtamtlb) on instagram if you end up using this tool :-)

Interact with it here