"Vibe" coding? Try vape coding.
Either the most sober — or the most nicotine-addled — individual of all time has done the improbable: hosting an entire website on a single disposable e-cigarette.
According to programmer Bogdan Ionescu, it's a stunt that's meant to demonstrate just how ridiculously tricked out even one-and-done vapes have become, he shared on his blog last week.
Ionescu said he had been collecting disposable vapes for years, but it was only last year that he realized that some of these "fancier pacifiers for adults" came with surprisingly capable microcontrollers from ARM, the same manufacturer that makes the processors used in MacBooks.
It's capable — in relative terms, at least. According to Ionescu, it's a microcontroller "so bad, it's basically disposable." But, in 2025, that still means it has a ridiculous amount of computing power, at least for something that get thrown out after a week.
He didn't share the specific vape — so as to not do "free advertising for Big Tobacco," as he phrased it — but the one he chose came with 24 kibibtyes of flash storage (a kibibyte is basically a kilobyte) and three kibibytes of static ram, all with a 24 megahertz processor.
"You may look at those specs and think that it's not much to work with," Ionescu wrote. "I don't blame you, a 10 [year] old phone can barely load Google, and this is about 100x slower."
"I on the other hand," he declared, "see a blazingly fast web server."
It took some trial and error before it could achieve these blazing speeds.
At first, "pings took ~1.5s with 50 percent packet loss," Ionescu said, "and a simple page took over 20 [seconds] to load."
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