Jeph Liperik

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[Jeph Liperik @null_syntaxx]

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[Jeph Liperik @null_syntaxx]

I ASKED CLAUDE FOR A VOXEL FISH. IT BUILT A FLYING KOI WITH A JAPANESE GARDEN ON ITS BACK

first attempt cost $0.06 and gave me a fish made of boxes

so i just kept saying "more detail" and watched what happened to the bill

$0.06 → a blocky orange fish with cargo crates on top
$0.80 → a koi with an entire floating island on its back: cherry blossoms, a torii gate, a temple, a lantern, moss and waterfalls pouring off its sides as it swims through clouds

the wild part: at some point the model stopped upgrading the FISH and started upgrading the WORLD around it

nobody asked for a garden. it decided the koi needed one

this is the real skill curve now - not "can the model do it" but "how many iterations before it out-decorates your imagination"

the first prompt is never the product. it's just the deposit

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HE OPENS A DOOR IN REAL LIFE. THE HOUSE INSIDE HIS COMPUTER OPENS IT TOO.

a developer used Claude Code to help turn his home into a live 3D interface.

not a floor plan you stare at. a model connected to the actual lights, cameras, plugs and door sensors.

“is any door open?”

“dim the office lights.”

plain english. real devices.

the clever part is how he connects everything:

→ his tool, tolpo, discovers Tapo devices on his local network
→ an MCP server makes those devices available to Claude as tools
→ Claude uses names like “office plug” to suggest which room they belong to
→ it drafts a layout. he corrects it.
→ a local web page turns that layout into a 3D house

then the sensors bring it to life.

open a real door → its virtual version moves.
select a camera → pull up that room’s live feed.
check a room → see the devices where they actually belong.

and this setup runs over his LAN, without routing device control through TP-Link’s cloud.

there’s a privacy detail worth noticing too: before starting a camera stream, tolpo checks the camera’s privacy switch.

that’s the interesting shift here.

we spent years learning which app, menu and button controls each thing in our homes.

he’s building an interface that understands the room instead.

the 3D house gets your attention.

“which lights did i leave on?” is what makes you keep using it.

would you use the model — or skip the screen and just talk to your house?

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@alessiatechai if such a volume slider were available on website, i would gladly use it all the time

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THIS "VOLUME SLIDER" DOESN'T CONTROL SOUND. IT CONTROLS DAYLIGHT. BUILT BY AI IN 7 MIN FOR $6.89

someone asked Fable 5.2 for a volume slider and got the most addictive UI element i've seen this year

the mechanic:

→ a night-time pixel room inside a pill-shaped track: bookshelf, door, brick wall barely visible
→ the slider handle isn't a dot - it's a refracting glass bubble with glints and a real draggable body
→ slide it right and the room physically relights under the lens: window fills with sun, plants appear, a corgi walks the floor
→ slide it back - night crawls back in. the state IS the position. light is now a thing you can touch

the wild part isn't that it's cute. it's that nobody designed a "toggle" here. the AI built an object whose position IS the setting - the ui element and the physics are the same thing

7 minutes. $6.89. that's what a tiny studio's interaction designer used to charge a hour rate to figure out

we're entering the era where buttons become objects, settings become physics, and "boring ui" is a choice, not a default

a light switch was always a metaphor. this model made it literal

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@chenzhangreal same, half a milion swing from one spring is wild

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I TOOK A MECHANICAL WATCH APART WITHOUT TOUCHING A SINGLE SCREW 🤯

Love this. This is how I wish someone had explained watches to me.

I always wondered how a spring smaller than a coin keeps a watch ticking for almost two days. So I asked Claude to build me one I could take apart.

No watchmaker. No 3D software. No tools. Just code.

How it works:

> It built the whole watch in code. Every wheel, ruby jewel, spring and blued screw is WebGL, rendered frame by frame.

> Flip it over and the movement sits behind sapphire: Geneva-striped bridges, perlage on the plate, red jewels at every pivot.

> Turn the crown and the 40-tooth ratchet winds the mainspring while a tiny click stops it slipping back. 31 hours of reserve becomes 40.

> The balance wheel swings 4 times a second. Slow it down 8x and you watch the pallet fork lock and release the escape wheel one tooth at a time.

> The gear train is pure math: 64/8 × 60/8 = 60. The centre wheel turns once an hour, the small seconds once a minute.

> Then 9 layers lift straight up the axis: crystal, bezel, hands, dial, plate, wheels, balance, bridges, ratchet. The leather strap never moves.

> It snaps back together in the same order and fast-forwards a full 24 hours on the dial.

Every part you see is something a real watch actually has. Nothing is there just to look cool.

Pick any object you've always wanted to see inside and you can build the same thing.

Every step and prompt in the article below 👇

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🚨 ONE IMAGE IN. A WHOLE MOTION STUDIO OUT. THIS FREE CLAUDE SKILL JUST DELETED A JOB TITLE

it's called "cutaway" and it's sitting on github right now.

you hand it ONE image. it hands back a fully engineered exploded-view animation in three.js. no studio, no after effects, no render farm.

what actually happens inside:

> claude doesn't draw the dragonfly - it SPECIFIES it. wing membrane 0.1mm on quick-release hinges, hind pair lagging the front pair by 40° at 7.5Hz

> the lens isn't decoration - it's 40mm of glass over a 10-blade iris that physically opens 3x during the shot

> before a single frame animates, it pixel-matches the build against your source image. similarity under 0.8 → back to rebuild. it literally rejects its own work

> every leg gets 2 servos driving grip-wheel feet, gearbox opens on a spur stack above the flight board

> then the whole thing disassembles itself on a 330° turntable, rebuilds, and banks away like nothing happened

the wild part isn't that it renders. it's that a language model just wrote mechanical engineering specs precise enough to animate - and QA'd them against a photo.

one image in. a small studio's worth of motion design out. price tag: zero.

skill + method in the article below 👇

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@alessiatechai I like it too; when it comes to my future home, I’ll definitely design it in 3D first.

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HE OPENS A DOOR IN REAL LIFE. THE HOUSE INSIDE HIS COMPUTER OPENS IT TOO.

a developer used Claude Code to help turn his home into a live 3D interface.

not a floor plan you stare at. a model connected to the actual lights, cameras, plugs and door sensors.

“is any door open?”

“dim the office lights.”

plain english. real devices.

the clever part is how he connects everything:

→ his tool, tolpo, discovers Tapo devices on his local network
→ an MCP server makes those devices available to Claude as tools
→ Claude uses names like “office plug” to suggest which room they belong to
→ it drafts a layout. he corrects it.
→ a local web page turns that layout into a 3D house

then the sensors bring it to life.

open a real door → its virtual version moves.
select a camera → pull up that room’s live feed.
check a room → see the devices where they actually belong.

and this setup runs over his LAN, without routing device control through TP-Link’s cloud.

there’s a privacy detail worth noticing too: before starting a camera stream, tolpo checks the camera’s privacy switch.

that’s the interesting shift here.

we spent years learning which app, menu and button controls each thing in our homes.

he’s building an interface that understands the room instead.

the 3D house gets your attention.

“which lights did i leave on?” is what makes you keep using it.

would you use the model — or skip the screen and just talk to your house?

[Jeph Liperik @null_syntaxx]

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AN ONLYFANS STAR SAYS SHE CAN'T DATE A MAN WHO WATCHES P*RN. HER REASON BROKE THE INTERNET'S BRAIN

she sells content for a living. and if she catches her future husband watching p*rn, she already has the punishment planned

"this is my move. i'm going to have sex with someone, film myself, and send it to him. this is what you like, right?"

that's not a joke. that's the rule.

her logic is brutally simple:

→ p*rn means no self-control
→ no self-control means you'll cheat the second you get the chance
→ "you're imagining yourself there and you're all into it"

and here's the part that breaks people. she's not some anti-p*rn crusader. she's literally on onl*fans. her whole income is the thing she's banning from her relationship.

adam pushed back: "my wife's hot. i watch p*rn for like five minutes to tire myself out. sometimes it's the thing keeping a man from cheating."

her answer: "then eventually when the chance comes..."

she doesn't buy the safety-valve theory at all. to her it's not a valve - it's a countdown.

then came the line that turned a take into a manifesto:

"i do onlyfans. i cannot date a consumer. that's like a DRUG DEALER DATING A CRACKHEAD."

say what you want about the logic - that's the most quotable relationship boundary ever said on a podcast.

she even called out the contradiction herself before anyone could: yeah, her fans watch p*rn. but they're simps, not prospects. simp to me all you want - just don't be my man doing it.

and when adam hit her with the "you're just being a pickme for the anti-p*rn crowd" counter, she didn't flinch:

"this has always been my point of view. i've never been okay with that."

love her or hate her, she built a dating rule that nobody else in her industry would dare say out loud - because it costs her customers to say it.

the dealer doesn't date the addict. she just sells to him.

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A MAN MAILS HER A VACUUM SEALER. WHAT HE ORDERS NEXT PUTS HIM IN A HOSPITAL - AND HE KEEPS ORDERING

a top onlyfans creator reads this story like a delivery log. no drama. just tracking numbers.

the host asks one innocent question: what's the craziest request you've ever heard of?

it starts mild. a fan paid a guest to step on a live fish - not for the video, for the sound. she refused.

then there's the girl who sold jars of air from her own body and made a killing. that's just the warmup.

the story gets darker.

a man sends one creator a vacuum sealing machine. a gift. what he wants shipped back is her own waste - fresh, sealed, sent through the regular postal service.

she ships it. he keeps ordering.

then she finds out he's eating it. landing in the hospital. and ordering again from the hospital bed.

she starts begging him to stop. "please don't do it." he does it anyway. every single time.

and here's the part that breaks your brain: when asked if she feels responsible, she shrugs - "i don't know, he requested it."

somewhere out there is a mail carrier who has no idea what he's been delivering for months.

this is the part of the creator economy nobody puts in the pitch deck.

so who's actually responsible here - the one who orders, the one who ships, or the platform that made it a business model?

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AN ONLYFANS STAR MADE $14M - AND HER OWN DAD TOLD HER TO KEEP GOING

not a pimp. not an agent. her father - an ex-pastor - said stay on another year "for the money."

in this clip, nala ray explains it like someone reading a medical bill. no tears. just facts.

first month on onlyfans she made $87K. she'd been earning $3.5K a month before that. so she quit on the spot.

every month after that was the same game: how do i top last month. that's the whole brain. that's the job.

then the host asks the quiet question: did anyone close to you ever find out?

a waiter did it for them.

she's at dinner with her parents and a stranger walks up: "are you nala ray?" her mom pulls out her phone, googles the name, and the table goes silent. that night ended their contact for three years.

her dad reacted... differently.

he told her to stay on onlyfans.

she was sending him money every month - for his job, his kids' lawyers, whatever the next call needed. every call was the same opener: "hey yo, don't want to bother you about this, but..."

at the time she told herself: at least one person in my family still talks to me.

years later, when she finally left the industry and called to tell him, his response was: why not stay another year and a half? it's expensive out there.

"did you really just tell me to keep doing it?"

the mom who disappeared wasn't the villain of this story.

he was just the one on payroll.

she says the subscribers were her pimps. but looking back - the only person who ever actually took a cut was her father.

who failed her more - the parent who walked away, or the one who stayed for the check?

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SHE MAKES UP TO $250,000 A MONTH. HER BIGGEST REGRET IS A CASTLE

Mia Malkova was sitting on a comedy podcast when the host asked the one question everyone wants to ask.

"How much do you make on OnlyFans every month?"

He guessed first: $75K.

She didn't even blink.

"150 to 250."

A month.

The host, a stand-up comic, just stares at the wall:

"Guys, I'm a porn star now. What am I doing at the Ha Ha Cafe in North Hollywood?"

Then she explains why the money is this big right now:

→ creators are leaving studios and running everything themselves
→ no set, no crew, no schedule
→ you film on your iPhone at 2pm and you're done
→ and fans prefer it raw, not overproduced

Then comes the question that broke the podcast.

"When the serious money started, what was the big purchase? A car? A house?"

She shrugs.

"Nothing too crazy."

Pause.

"I did buy a castle."

Not a mansion. Not a "castle-style home."

An actual castle in Portland, called the Blackberry Castle.

The hosts lose it. Is there a moat??

And then she drops the line nobody in that room will ever forget:

she doesn't have it anymore.

She moved, split from her boyfriend, and let it go because the castle was...

"a burden."

"Too much work."

The host just repeats it back slowly:

"This is the wealthiest thing I've ever heard. My castle was too much of a burden."

Most people spend their whole life dreaming about a castle.

She bought one, lived in it, and got rid of it because it was too much maintenance.

What would you do with $250K a month?

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HER BOYFRIEND REFUSED TO KISS HER WHEN SHE CAME HOME FROM WORK. SHE WAS THE BIGGEST ADULT STAR ON THE INTERNET. WHAT SHE DID NEXT SURPRISED EVERYONE...

Riley Reid told this on Impaulsive in 2018.

The host asks: did you ever doubt your career?

She says only once. And it wasn't because of a director, a fan or a bad scene.

It was a boyfriend.

He was insecure about her work. He wanted her to stop certain scenes. He made her feel like maybe she should quit.

Then he told her that sometimes he didn't want to kiss her when she came home from work.

"It made me feel like a disgusting person."

Here's what saved her: she always lived alone. Never moved in with a single boyfriend.

So when it got heavy, she could close the door and ask herself one question: what actually makes me happy?

The answer came on a random day.

She'd put months into her own website. She watched a scene she'd shot, fully edited, for the first time. It was so beautiful to her that she cried.

She had just stopped crying when her phone rang.

The boyfriend. Calling to complain about something small.

That was the moment.

"My job makes me so happy. I feel so creative and inspired. I think I'm just gonna keep shooting, and figure out where other forms of happiness can come from."

She picked the work over the man.

Years later, she stopped filming with men completely. She's now married with a daughter.

Same woman. Different answer.

Was he wrong back then, or just early?

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SHE STOPPED NEGOTIATING. SHE LET AN AI DO IT. HER INCOME ALMOST DOUBLED

Former adult star Lisa Ann hasn't priced a single deal herself in two years.

Here's how it works:

a brand sends her a proposal. host an event, post a reel, show up somewhere

she pastes the whole thing into ChatGPT

"it'll break it down for me and say: this is exactly what you should be asking"

the first time she saw the number, she pushed back
"that seems like a lot"

the AI didn't budge:

"if they're not into it, they'll offer down. but if you ask for what you want and they offer down, you're getting less than what you want. why don't you trust me and just try it?"

so she tried it

she sends the proposal with the AI's number
then she literally walks away from her computer

because in her head:
"these people may never talk to me again. I don't think I'm that important. I don't think I drive that much traffic"

then they come back

no haggling. no counter offer. they just pay

"not one person has said no"

18 months. two years. every single deal.

result: she's almost doubled what she earns

the trick isn't magic. the AI attaches her real numbers to every ask:
→ 1.7M on Facebook
→ 4.4M on Instagram
→ here's why this price is realistic

her takeaway is the part that hit me:

"it's interesting to remove your own emotion from your business"

think about that

a woman who built a brand millions of people know
was still pricing herself like nobody would care

the AI didn't make her more valuable
it just stopped her from discounting herself

and the funniest part?

she calls it "he"
never named it
says everybody's moving to Claude, but she feels too loyal to leave

so she's keeping her chat for negotiations and bringing Claude in for the backend

how many people reading this are still underpricing themselves because asking for more feels awkward?

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HE REVERSE-ENGINEERED HIS SMART HOME AND TP-LINK CAN'T SEE A THING ANYMORE

it's not a game. it's a live 3D copy of his real house, and Claude Code built most of it

what he can do now:
• ask "is any door open?" or "dim the office lights" in plain words
• see every bulb, plug and sensor glowing in the right room
• tap a camera in the model and watch that room live

how the twin gets built:

1/ scan
his own tool, tolpo, finds every Tapo device on the home network: lights, plugs, sensors, cameras

2/ connect
an MCP server hands all of them to Claude as tools

3/ guess
Claude reads device names like "Küche Lampe" or "office plug" and figures out which room each belongs to (english, german, spanish)

4/ draft
it sketches a floor plan. he fixes the rooms and saves it

5/ render
a local web page builds the house in 3D and drops each device into place

6/ sync
door sensors drive the model. real door moves → virtual door moves

the part I like most:
• everything runs over his LAN. TP-Link's cloud isn't in the loop
• it logs in with his own Tapo account
• before any camera stream starts, tolpo checks the camera's privacy switch
• tested only on his own devices: bulbs, plug, hub, sensors, doorbell, cameras
• even the protocol research was done with Claude Code

your smart home app shows buttons. his shows his house

link to the tool below ↓

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$214,000 A YEAR. NOBODY GOT FIRED

an architecture startup plugged Opus 5.5 into Unreal and found money in a place no one was even looking

not salaries. not software
the gap between "client changes their mind" and "here's what that looks like"

you know how it goes:
client sends a note on tuesday
updated model shows up next monday
client already moved on

now the house rebuilds while the client is still sitting there

PLAN → floor layout straight from the brief, real dimensions
MASS → walls, roof, openings, built to code clearances
LIGHT → sun path for the actual plot and orientation
WALK → client walks through it before anything gets signed

the real problem was always the pricing
viz studios charge per render
so firms order 3, pick 1, and lock the design way too early
because changing it later costs money nobody planned for

kill the per-render fee and everything flips
the design gets settled because it was tested
not because the budget ran out

the $214K was never about renders
it was all the revisions firms eat quietly so clients don't walk

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THIS GOOD BOY FETCHED 696 OUT OF 697 FUNCTIONS

throw Opus 5.5 one feature of an app you own
it runs off, sniffs the whole binary, and comes back with how it works

no copied code. not one line

someone rebuilt a Touhou game this way in one evening
696 of 697 functions matched

how the fetch works:

one team only watches the app and writes what it does
the other team builds from that spec and never sees the original
a wall between them. that's the clean room

then 50 inputs go through both builds
30 normal, 10 edge, 10 broken
you get a real match %, not "trust me bro"

the toy it fetches with is REA
→ MIT, 100K+ stars
→ runs 100% local, uploads nothing
→ gives Claude a real disassembler over MCP
→ reads Electron, websites, .exe, .NET, APKs, Unity games

Opus only knows 3 tricks:
point → exact file + function
explain → rename, rewrite, flag
spec → behavior only, zero code

and every line it brings back is tagged
observation / inference / unknown
with file, address, call site
so you know what it saw and what it guessed

one command:
npx rea-agents@latest setup

house rules: only apps you own, never copy code, every behavior needs a passing test

study the original. ship your own 🐕

full guide + prompt pack ↓
https://t.co/lGCVWffihu

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YOUR DESIGN AGENCY IS NOW 7 GITHUB REPOS

i'm not joking. here's the whole team:

the creative director → Huashu Design
one sentence in, it pitches 6 directions, you pick 3, it ships a launch animation, a clickable prototype or a deck
https://t.co/jpaY3KaCvO

the brand archivist → Graphify
feed it every old project, brand PDF and screenshot. now Claude remembers what that one client hated in 2023
https://t.co/RR99vgim8p

the moodboard guy → Awesome DESIGN.md
84 real-site design systems, one markdown file each. "make it look like this" actually works now
https://t.co/HxDxTJL9uy

the anti-slop QA → Hallmark
Together AI's skill that fights the "AI made this" look. 50 themes, tests in a real browser, /hallmark redesign fixes old pages
https://t.co/VZOAdshw3a

the whole department → Designer Skills Pack
273 skills + 76 commands for Claude Code. research, systems, UI, interaction
https://t.co/xr40fmzZkb

the motion director → Motion Design Skill
LottieFiles taught AI timing, easing and Disney's 12 principles. this is why it finally *feels* right
https://t.co/WyJWgPLJIH

the 3D guy → Blender Agent Skills
22 pro workflows: modeling, materials, rigging, animation, render. way past "make a cube"
https://t.co/Mi2V17cFOR

payroll: $0
meetings: 0
excuses left: 0

save this before your competitor does

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