Tyler Garrett

Coming from enjoying myspace era, it was a great place to socialize with people near me. However after awhile more features came more interesting stuff like automated spam from bands about their music. Growth hacking before I understood growth hacking. Today, I'm building this app to be a minimal variation of what we know and love, with the edge that this is has modern and emerging technology capabilities, not restricted by technical skill gaps, or any desire to monetize. This myspace alternative is good for those who want to build a portfolio and try different approaches with their online presence. It's built for people who have ideas but don't necessarily want to share it with meta, linkedin, twitter.. Perhaps wanting your own web space that you own the subdomain, and you call the shots... Welcome to the new mysp4ce built and supported by https://dev3lop.com an AI consultancy in Austin Texas.

You heard that right, today mosquitos in Austin Texas suck, they suck straight butt hole. As opposed to curved buttholes. Also, when was the last time anyone said something sucked a butt hole? To each their own, some butts are better than others.

Are buttholes curved?

Yes.

ChatGPT helped me understand this more...

Breakdown: "Mosquitos in Austin Texas suck" This starts as a normal complaint. Mosquitoes literally suck blood, and in slang, "they suck" also means "they're terrible." "they suck straight butt hole" The speaker exaggerates the complaint with a crude expression. It's a deliberately ridiculous way of saying the mosquitoes are especially awful. "As opposed to curved buttholes." This is the punchline. The phrase "straight butt hole" accidentally creates an adjective ("straight") modifying "butthole." The listener expects "straight" to mean "directly" or "really," but the joke pretends it means the butthole itself is geometrically straight. The follow-up points out the absurd implication by contrasting it with a "curved butthole."

Butt...

The humor comes from: A double meaning of "suck." Misinterpreting the grammar on purpose. The absurd image of categorizing buttholes by shape ("straight" vs. "curved"). The unexpected shift from complaining about mosquitoes to discussing the geometry of buttholes.

These mushrooms appear to be Japanese umbrella mushrooms (Coprinellus disseminatus), which often grow in dense clusters on rotting wood or mulch.They are known for their short lifespan, frequently appearing overnight and decaying within a few hours.

While they may seem alarming, they are a sign of healthy soil, as they help break down organic matter and turn it into nutrients for other plants.

Growing mushrooms, never the intention. This is a part of a healthy mulching around my oak trees. It's my first time using mulch around trees, and it's not something I've ever done with my parents in the past. It's fun now I can share my mulching experiences with my kids, and research shows mulching can increase the amount your tree is able to grow. And I live on a hill, so heavy rain often has a way of moving the dirt. Mulch is now helping me maintain dirt, which is the essential nutrients needed for life to grow. Now, my front yard is booming, and it all started with simple addition of some rocks around the front of my trees, which I noticed helped maintain some eroding dirt in the front. Later, I had to do more rocks to keep the soil from simply flowing out. Now, with that layer, adding mulch over has been beneficial because using rocks to landscape still gives access to water going down to the trees, VS it being a slick area that just flows off my yard. thats enough about my mulchy/rock yard.

This one is about seeing your reach. New analytics show not just who showed up, but who actually read — and where their attention landed, down to a heatmap on the page. Add QR codes on every link, a community leaderboard, and a scarcity twist on collecting short names, and there's a lot to dig into.

Heatmaps: where attention actually lands

Open any post's analytics (Studio → the 📊 on a post) and you'll see a heatmap of where readers' cursors clustered on the page. It's the difference between guessing and seeing: which passage held people, where they hovered, where they drifted off. A 'heat ink' slider lets you turn the intensity up or down.

It's built to stay fast and stay private. Cursor positions are bucketed into a fixed grid the moment they arrive, so the data size is bounded no matter how much traffic a post gets — and we never store raw mouse trails, only the aggregate. Bots are filtered out.

Reads, not just views

A page load isn't a read, so now we count both. A view becomes a 'read' once someone actually spends time — ten seconds or more — or scrolls deep into the piece. That gives you a real read-through rate, the average time people spend, and how far down they get. You can finally tell a glance from a genuine read.

Alongside that: where readers came from (referrers and countries) and what they're on (devices and browsers). The whole picture, per post.

QR codes on everything

Every link now carries a QR code — your space address, each short name you've collected, your short links, and every post (right on its analytics page). They sit as a small icon to keep things tidy; click to enlarge to a scannable size, then download a print-ready PNG. Put one on a flyer, a sticker, a slide. Your collected short domains finally have an in-real-life on-ramp.

Short names are now rationed

Collecting is more of a game now. Every name has a rarity by length — Legendary at one character, Epic at two, Rare at three — and you can only claim so many of each per month: one Legendary, two Epic, three Rare. A meter in Studio shows what you've spent and when it resets. Rearranging names you already hold is always free; only fresh grabs count against the limit.

Unlockables

Studio has a row of unlockables now — First flag, Rare find, Full set, Collector, Landlord — that light up as your collection grows. The locked ones show exactly what to chase, so there's always a next thing to come back for.

A community leaderboard

j7.is/leaderboard (the 🏆 in the menu) ranks everyone by pure writing math: most posts, longest single post, biggest average word count, and most words total across everything published. Climb it the honest way — write more, write longer, write denser.

See where your images are used

Open any image in your library and it now lists every post that uses it — yours and other people's — as clickable links, so you can trace where a photo ended up across j7. (And yes, the image viewer's close button actually closes it now.)

Easier on the eyes

Reading text is now a classic serif at a comfortable size, with bold, properly-sized headings — much kinder on a phone and from across the room. The crisp pixel font stays where it belongs: menus, buttons, and window chrome.

All of it is live today. Go check your heatmaps, grab a QR for your favorite link, and see where you land on the board.

This one is about your name and your reach. You can now collect short addresses like a set of cards, switch which one is your front door, see what is catching fire across all of j7, and open private rooms for the conversations that should not be in the lobby. A lot shipped at once — here is the whole tour.

Your name is a collection now

Your address used to be whatever your GitHub handle turned into, and that was that. Now it is yours to shape. Open Studio and you will find a new section — Subdomains, your collection. Change your URL, hold extra names, and rearrange which one is home, all without losing the links you have already shared.

Changed your mind on a handle? Rename it. The old address does not die — it quietly becomes a redirect to the new one, so anything you posted or texted with the old link still lands exactly where it should.

Short names are rare — and worth chasing

Every name now has a rarity, scored by length. Six characters and up are Common. Three is Rare. Two is Epic. And a single character — t, x, 7 — is Legendary, because there are only thirty-six of those on the entire platform. Type a name in Studio and watch its tier light up the moment it is free.

One default, the rest redirect

Pick the address you want to be your front door and star it. Everything else you hold points there. Some days you want the long, proper handle on your business card and the one-letter link in a text message — now that is a single click, not a migration.

Fire and funny, now across all of j7

The fire and funny reactions used to live inside each space. Now j7.is/fire and j7.is/funny rank the posts catching fire across every space on the platform — one global board the whole community can discover and pile onto. Your space still keeps its own local board, with a one-tap jump to the global one.

Rooms

The chat used to be a single room. Now there is a second, black button next to it: Rooms. Open it to see the channels you are in, jump into one by name, or start your own — public for anyone with the name, or private with an invite list. Same quick chat, as many rooms as you need.

The Lobby is one room — and now it says so

People kept asking: is this chat global? Per page? Per person? Fair question. The main room is now clearly the j7 Lobby — one room, everyone on j7 — with a banner that says exactly that. No more guessing who is on the other end.

Your account lives in the Apple menu

Your username is off the top-right corner. Click the Apple in the menu bar — like a real Mac — and you will find your Studio, Change URL, and Sign out. A cleaner bar, and a more obvious home for the account things.

Short links, minus the confusion

Making a short link no longer asks you to choose between domains. It just uses the subdomain you are on, and says so. You can edit a link's code after the fact too — and if you do, we offer to keep the old code alive as a redirect, so a link you already shared never 404s.

All of it is live today. Go claim a name you will be proud of — and if you manage to snag a Legendary one, you earned it.