Our Bucket Brigadier of the Year 2024 is…
Please accept our apologies for making you wait an excruciating 3 months for this announcement, but good things take time. The Gaming Thrones Bucket Brigadier of 2024 is Lotus, who created this animated toilet entirely from the primordial ooze of CSS. Isn’t it beautiful! Roll your mouse over the image (or tickle your screen on mobile) to see the magic in action.
Lotus, tell the world about why you did this? “I went through the freeCodeCamp tutorial to remind myself that I actually am a senior software engineer, with 20 years of experience and I know how to make websites. After going through their CSS tutorial as part of my “certification” to make sure I could actually get a job, I realized I could make a penguin flap using CSS. I thought, Oh I betcha I could make a toilet, how hard could that be?”
Tell us about that journey: “CSS animations are really fucking hard. They’re annoying, and they’re the worst way to make things animated if they are any degree of complicated. Especially confetti. Confetti is stupid. I wanted little paper things that turned and spun and shot out like a party popper. What I got were fucking balls that shot out of the damn toilet like a fucking machine gun, and, it’s good enough, honestly. It’s just good enough.”
What are your next plans for things you want to create? “I’m moving onto things that make money.”
You, too, could create your own animated toilet using the principles of Free Code Camp’s Flappy Penguin tutorial. Go ahead, give it a flap!
The Bucket Brigadier of the Year award represents a $25 donation to the sanitation charity of our choice, to be contributed at the end of the calendar year.
