Obliterate It from Orbit

June 30, 2025

Inspired by the famous git push button, I was sent this article and genuinely loved the concept of hardware with one purpose and one purpose only. And when this article landed in my inbox, I was lucky enough that the coworker who sent it also gifted me a little Arduino with the intention that I build it!

But when the time came to build it, I was struck with the insurmountable grief of being a fraud in the programming community — one unworthy, unskilled, and unblessed to press the mighty git push button. And with more time and brooding, I realized that both the limitations of the hardware I had on hand *and* the exponential growth of AI (which now writes 8x more functional slop than I can, in 1/8th the time) gave me a new idea: "What if, instead, I had a ‘F it – restart’ switch?" Thus, Nuke It was born.

I won't go into too much detail about what it does — it's blunt, unapologetic, and effective (And nothing more than a modified rubbery ducky tbh).
1. Plug it in
2. Code until your local repo is so far gone, even divine intervention won't help
3. Flip the switch
4. Now all of those horrible (unread) lines of AI code are gone and you have your clean main git branch! Repeat until the machines take my job entirely
Boom image Switch photo