The latest articles on DEV Community by Lars (@builditn0w). https://dev.to/builditn0w https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3723490%2Fcd6c0fbb-4743-4927-bbf8-fa9c72bb1024.png https://dev.to/builditn0w en Lars Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:43:15 +0000 https://dev.to/builditn0w/-1j9 https://dev.to/builditn0w/-1j9 <div class="ltag__link"> <a href="/builditn0w" class="ltag__link__link"> <div class="ltag__link__pic"> <img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3723490%2Fcd6c0fbb-4743-4927-bbf8-fa9c72bb1024.png" alt="builditn0w"> </div> </a> <a href="https://dev.to/builditn0w/go-touch-grass-38f6" class="ltag__link__link"> <div class="ltag__link__content"> <h2>Go touch grass!</h2> <h3>Lars ・ Jan 22</h3> <div class="ltag__link__taglist"> <span class="ltag__link__tag">#webdev</span> <span class="ltag__link__tag">#softwaredevelopment</span> <span class="ltag__link__tag">#programming</span> <span class="ltag__link__tag">#productivity</span> </div> </div> </a> </div> webdev softwaredevelopment programming productivity Lars Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:49:26 +0000 https://dev.to/builditn0w/go-touch-grass-38f6 https://dev.to/builditn0w/go-touch-grass-38f6 <h2> Yes, go touch grass - now! </h2> <p>Touching grass is super important for us to unwind and recharge our batteries!</p> <p>But we tend to not do it often enough, at least I do.</p> <p>This is why I built <a href="https://touched-grass.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">touched-grass.com</a>!<br> It is a fun little website that let's you generate a badge for touching grass activities (and more) to share on social media.</p> <h2> How it started </h2> <p>It started as a joke: I gave out “Touched Grass” badges to random people on X when they actually went outside 🌱</p> <p>People loved it, so I turned it into a tiny tool!</p> <p>You can create and share badges for things like:</p> <ul> <li>touching grass 🌿</li> <li>shipping 🚀</li> <li>marketing 📣</li> <li>hiking 🥾</li> </ul> <p>or basically any activity you want</p> <p>Each badge comes with a shareable link with a nice social preview, so it looks great on X, Slack, Discord, or anywhere else.</p> <h2> Tech stack </h2> <p>The website is a pretty standard one with <code>NextJS</code>, <code>Prisma</code>(Postgre DB), <code>better-auth</code>, <code>shadcn</code> and <code>tailwindcss</code>.</p> <p>For images storage <code>Cloudflare R2</code> and for image creation (opengraph, pinterest pins) <code>Cloudflare worker</code> with screenshotting is used.</p> <p>Everything (expect Cloudflare obviously) is self hosted on a single node <code>k8s</code> VPS with <code>Github CI</code> pipelines using <code>helm and</code>helmfile`.</p> <h2> More? </h2> <p>Yes there is more! You can get <a href="https://www.touched-grass.com/products/featured" rel="noopener noreferrer">Featured</a>, access <a href="https://www.touched-grass.com/products/premium" rel="noopener noreferrer">Premium Badges</a> or <a href="https://www.touched-grass.com/products/unlock-links" rel="noopener noreferrer">Unlock Links</a> on your profile.</p> <p>Oh, and there is a <a href="https://www.touched-grass.com/newsletter" rel="noopener noreferrer">Newsletter</a>! some cool stuff is coming this spring :)</p> <p>Have fun!<br> and go touch some grass 😉</p> webdev softwaredevelopment programming productivity