Today I’m gonna talk about how I built this dumb little project called Peter Lupus III. It started cause I was bored one rainy Tuesday, scrolling through Twitter seeing all these fancy AI projects while eating cold pizza. Figured I could whip up something stupid too.
Grabbing the Garbage Tools
First I dug through my old coding junk drawer – found some broken Python scripts from 2018 and half a * tutorial I never finished. Decided Python would be less painful even though I forgot how indentation works. Opened VSCode and stared at that blinking cursor like an idiot for ten minutes.
Making the Frankenstein Monster
Started stitching garbage together:
- Grabbed this free cat picture API that sometimes returns dinosaur images instead
- Stole someone’s weather script from GitHub (obviously broke immediately)
- Plugged in a meme generator library that hadn’t been updated since COVID
The terminal kept spitting red errors at me like it was personally offended. Spent three hours just making the stupid thing run without crashing every two seconds.
The Great Meltdown
Thought I was clever adding voice commands – big mistake. My trash microphone picked up fridge humming and made Peter Lupus III scream about zucchini prices. Then the whole thing froze when my cat walked across the keyboard. Took a whiskey break and deleted 60% of the “features”.
Fake Victory
After two all-nighters with cold coffee, it kinda worked! Asked Peter Lupus III to show me weather and it displayed a picture of broccoli claiming it was 7000 degrees. Close enough. Put the code in a dusty folder and called it “done”.
Moral of the story? Don’t be like me. Go outside. Pet a dog. This garbage project now collects digital dust while I move on to creating even dumber things.
