Fireship
May 26, 2026
1. Introduction & GitHub State
The creator observes GitHub's feed dominated by AI agent projects and low-quality markdown files, contrasting this with genuinely innovative but impractical software still being built by passionate developers.
2. Ratty: 3D Terminal Emulator
A Rust-based terminal emulator inspired by Temple OS that renders a GPU-accelerated 3D scene using Bevy game engine, featuring a spinning rat cursor and the ability to tilt the terminal in 3D space, consuming 300MB of RAM.
3. Terminal Phone: Decentralized Communication
An open-source push-to-talk app running entirely over Tor as a shell script with end-to-end encryption, no servers or accounts—using only Tor addresses as identity for ephemeral communication.
4. They Live Ad Blocker: Sci-Fi Aesthetic
A fork of Ublock Origin Light that transforms web browsing into an 80s sci-fi horror experience by replacing all ads with messaging from the 1988 film 'They Live,' blocking content while providing thematic immersion.
5. CUDA Oxide: Safe GPU Programming
An Nvidia-released project enabling developers to write GPU kernels in Rust instead of C++, eliminating memory safety risks and compiling directly to PTX without C++ or foreign function interfaces.
6. Wario Synth: Chiptune Conversion
A browser-based tool that converts songs into Game Boy chiptunes using the web audio API with pulse waves and noise channels, requiring zero server-side processing.
7. Information Consumption Tools
Jmail emulates Gmail interface for archival files; Epstein Exposed provides searchable databases and network graphs for analyzing complex connections; demonstrates accessibility-focused information design.
8. Exipedia: Educational Doom Scrolling
A TikTok-style feed of Wikipedia articles that downloads 40MB of simple Wikipedia and enables infinite browsing by category, running entirely in-browser with algorithmic curation.
9. Pewter: Browser-Based Desktop Environment
A self-hostable or web-accessible desktop environment featuring taskbar, draggable windows, file manager, and applications—positioning itself as a free, open, and functional alternative to Chrome OS.
10. Honker & Hyper Agent: Infrastructure Simplification
Honker extends SQLite with Postgres-style pub/sub and job queues for simplified architecture; Hyper Agent (sponsor) enables isolated cloud sandbox agents with browser, shell, and file system access for autonomous workflows.