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Yesterday, I was looking at my GitHub feed and realized it was 90% AI agents reviewing other AI agents' pull requests.
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Yesterday, I was looking at my GitHub feed and realized it was 90% AI agents reviewing other AI agents' pull requests.
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My For You page is just six wrappers around the same Claude API key,
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and all the most starred repos are literally just markdown files that tell you how to talk to robots.
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I thought I had died and went to hell,
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but I realized this can't be hell,
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because this is my terminal emulator.
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It's 3D, it uses 300MB of RAM,
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it has a spinning wrap for a cursor,
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and it might be the most important software released in 2026.
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Underneath the AI sewage layer,
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and below the Prompt Bros and Notion template goblins,
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there are still real humans building insane,
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beautiful, and deeply unnecessary software.
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In today's video, we'll look at 10 projects you've never heard of,
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built by people who absolutely should not be allowed near a compiler,
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and I mean that as the highest possible compliment.
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It is May 26, 2026,
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and you're watching The Code Report.
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The first project I want to talk about is Rati.
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It's a new terminal emulator built in Rust and inspired by TempleOS.
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And as you can see here,
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the cursor is a spinning 3D rat.
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It was created by Oren Parmaxes,
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and unlike most terminal emulators,
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it doesn't just render text,
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but rather an entire GPU-accelerated 3D scene using the Bevy game engine.
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That means you can do incredibly useless things,
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like hit Ctrl-Alt-Enter, to physically tilt your terminal in a 3D space like you're flying through a PS2 game.
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And you can even bring in your own crappy 3D models from tools like Blender.
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The only catch is that it eats 300 megabytes of RAM,
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and RAM is not cheap these days.
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The creator fully acknowledges that this is insane by saying,
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quote, everything comes at a cost,
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especially the spinning rat cursor.
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But if 3D rats are not enough,
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your terminal's about to get even more awesomer thanks to a project called Terminal Phone.
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Imagine this, you're in the terminal,
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vim open, three TMUX panes deep,
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and instead of unlocking your phone to take a call,
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you just make the call from bash.
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The Terminal Phone is an open-source push-to-talk voice and text app that runs entirely over Tor as a shell script.
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There are no servers, no accounts, no phone numbers.
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Instead, a .onion address is your identity,
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which means everything is ephemeral and end-to-end encrypted.
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The developer shipped this project in February with a custom protocol built from scratch.
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This is the project cypherpunks were promising us in 1995,
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and now finally, after 30 years,
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one psychopath finally delivered it.
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But this next project might even be more rebellious.
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Back in 1988, before the internet even existed,
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John Carpenter made an awesome movie where this dude puts on sunglasses,
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and suddenly every billboard, magazine,
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and advertisement on Earth is revealed to be what it truly is,
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alien mind-control propaganda telling us to obey, consume, marry, and reproduce.
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Developer David Lawrence realized that this is also the most aesthetically correct way to implement an ad blocker.
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He actually had the idea all the way back in 2015,
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sat on it for a decade,
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and then finally shipped it recently as a fork of uBlock Origin Lite.
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Instead of just blocking ads,
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it turns the entire experience of surfing the World Wide Web into an 80s sci-fi horror movie.
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But our next project, Kuda Oxide,
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didn't come from some basement hacker.
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It was quietly dropped on GitHub by the 5 trillion market cap NVIDIA last week.
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And it addresses an important problem.
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In order to write CUDA kernels,
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code that runs on a GPU,
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you need to carefully craft C++.
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Pray the compiler doesn't segfault,
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because it only takes one wrong pointer to turn your $40,000 GPU cluster into a worthless paperweight.
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CUDA Oxide tries to fix this by letting you write GPU kernels in pure Rust.
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Just annotate a function with kernel,
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and now you have Rust code that can actually run on a GPU.
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And it actually compiles straight to PTX.
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There's no foreign functions interface or C++ involved at all.
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But all these awesome projects should have their own theme songs,
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and that's where WarioSynth comes in.
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This is a weird project where you paste in a song,
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and it spits it back out as a Game Boy chiptune.
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Under the hood, it uses the Web Audio API to take two pulse waves,
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one wave channel, and one noise channel,
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to re-synthesize an entire song as something that sounds like it's coming out of a 1989 Game Boy.
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And it can do all of this in the browser,
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with zero server-side processing required.
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Enjoy it before Nintendo's legal team nukes it and memory holes it,
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but speaking of memory holes,
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I completely forgot about the Epstein files after the Iran War and UFO disclosures.
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Luckily, though, the files are easier than ever to consume now thanks to projects like Jmail,
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which emulates Gmail as if you were Jeffrey himself using it.
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But if you truly want to go deep down this rabbit hole,
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Epstein Exposed provides a searchable database for the files,
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and also this awesome network graph that shows you how deep the connections of the deep state actually go.
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If that's a little too dark for you,
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though, you'll really like this next project, Exipedia.
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Developer Lyra Rebane looked at the dumpster fire that's modern social media and asked the only sensible question.
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What if doom scrolling was actually good for you?
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So she built Wikipedia as a TikTok feed.
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You open up the web app,
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pick a few categories, and it downloads 40 megabytes of simple Wikipedia in the background,
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and then you have an infinite feed you can scroll through endlessly.
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This project is also open source and runs its algorithm entirely in the browser.
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But what if we could run an entire computer in the browser?
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Well, that's where Pewter comes in.
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It's a project you can self-host,
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or if you go to pewter.com,
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you'll be taken to a desktop environment where you have a taskbar,
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draggable windows, a file manager,
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and a bunch of applications like a notepad,
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code editor, terminal, and so on.
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It's kind of like the dream of Chrome OS,
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except it's actually free, actually open, and actually fun.
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But now, it's time to learn about Honker.
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This one's for the SQLite gang,
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and honestly, it might be the single most underrated project on this list.
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SQLite is an incredible database that can handle even the most ambitious of failed side projects.
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But if you end up needing a feature like a job queue,
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things start to get complicated.
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You might think you need to spin up Redis,
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install Celery, or run a message broker,
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but developer Russell Romney says no. Honker is a SQLite extension written in Rust
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that adds Postgres-style notify-listen directly into your database file.
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You get durable PubSub, task queues,
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event streams, and a cron scheduler,
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and all that lives inside the same .db file as your business data.
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It's yet another humble reminder that 99% of us don't f***ing need motherf***ing Kubernetes,
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and would be perfectly fine running SQLite and Node on a $5 VPS.
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And that brings us to number 10,
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HyperAgent, the sponsor of today's video.
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Most agent platforms only give you tool calls,
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but HyperAgent lets you build and deploy agents with their own browser,
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shell, and file system, all running in an isolated cloud sandbox.
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I used it to build a research workflow for our Bytes newsletter that studies past issues,
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scouts tech Twitter and Hacker News for promising story topics,
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and saves them to our team's Airtable.
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Then I turn that workflow into an agent we can invoke from Telegram or Slack whenever we need ideas.
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Right now, HyperAgent is giving away $10 million to founders building agent-first companies,
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and the first 1,000 viewers to use the link below will get $1,000 in free inference credits.
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This has been The Code Report,
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thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.

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In this lesson, you will practice your English listening and speaking skills by engaging with a captivating conversation about innovative software projects. The excerpt features a blend of technical jargon and humor, providing a unique context for language learning. Through listening and repeating, you will enhance your English speaking practice, focusing on intonation, rhythm, and word pronunciation. Utilize the shadowing technique to mimic the speakers and work on improving your English pronunciation in a fun and engaging manner.

Key Vocabulary & Phrases

  • Terminal emulator: A program that emulates a computer terminal within another display architecture.
  • GPU-accelerated: Referring to the use of a Graphics Processing Unit to enhance computation speed.
  • Open-source: Software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify, and enhance.
  • Ephemeral: Lasting for a very short time; in this context, it refers to temporary data or identities.
  • Tor: A network that allows users to remain anonymous while online.
  • Shell script: A script written for the shell command line interpreter of an operating system.
  • Cypherpunks: advocates of the use of cryptography and technologies that enhance privacy and personal freedom.
  • 3D models: Digital representations of three-dimensional objects.

Practice Tips

To effectively utilize the shadowing technique with this video, focus on the speed and tone of the speaker. Begin by listening to a short segment and then repeat it immediately. Aim to match not only the words but also the speaker's intonation. The conversational style requires you to be aware of emotional cues, which can elevate your English speaking practice. Since the language is filled with technical terms, take your time with complex phrases; break them down to understand each word before moving on to the complete expression. As you practice, pay attention to the rhythm of the speech, especially when the speaker changes pace—this is crucial for improving English pronunciation. Lastly, engage with the content actively by discussing the projects mentioned, which will deepen your understanding and retention of vocabulary.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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