Merry Exploring ✨
Internships, fellowships and AI finds, shared as notes along the journey.
A personal blog where I share ideas, opportunities, and things worth saving. youtube.com/@meryexploring
Merry Exploring calls itself a place for draft ideas, AI discoveries, opportunities and things worth saving, with nothing too polished. Its opportunity posts cover internships and fellowships, usually with a deadline and a link. Some posts are short explainers, from APA 7th edition paper formatting to Explainpaper, an AI tool that explains hard papers in simple words. In between, it passes along launches from other builders' channels, like a Telegram client for feature phones.
- The channel has posted at least once a week for 34 weeks in a row.
- It has averaged 8.2 posts a week recently.
- 48% of its posts are forwards from other channels.
The journey.
- Mar – Apr 2026
The opportunity board
The channel opened in March 2026 with a welcome post promising ideas, AI notes and opportunities. Early posts lined up an undergraduate internship at INSAIT, the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship and a women-only Kifiya AI Mastery cohort, next to explainers on APA 7th edition and Explainpaper. Late April brought a post from the AI4SD 2026 conference, attended as a showcase presenter.
Sources#2#15#25#63 - May – Aug 2026
Good mornings and Git internals
From May the feed got chattier, with plenty of good-morning and good-night posts. A June dev note on learning to love the command line grew out of reading about Spring Boot and Git internals, and a July OS joke passed 1,000 views. August brought forwards of other builders' launches, like TeleLite, a Telegram client for feature phones, and a 90-day Backend Mastery roadmap.
Sources#117#138#176#249 - Sep – Oct 2026
Hikes, hackathons and shoutouts
September brought a recap of an almost 21 km community hike, the most-viewed post in the sample, and a nudge to read the privacy side of the 1980s AI photo trend. The channel passed 150 members and shared calls like the OSF x Andela hackathon and Builders Lab 2.0. October leaned into shoutouts, forwarding launches such as the spots app and the focus app Nuzz.
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Start here.
- 01
The welcome post, which lays out what the channel is for.
👋 Welcome to Merry Exploring I created this space to share things I find interesting like ideas, AI notes, opportunities, lessons I learn, and sometimes rando...
Mar 5, 2026229 views - 02
A typical opportunity post: a fully funded, women-only AI training cohort with a clear deadline.
Applications Are Now Open: Women-Only Kifiya AI Mastery Cohort This is a big moment for women in tech in Ethiopia. The Kifiya AI Mastery Training Program is a...
Mar 24, 2026202 views - 03
A practical AI pick: a tool that explains hard research papers in simple words.
📚 Today in Merry Exploring, we will explore: An AI tool that helps you understand anything Meet: Explainpaper 🧾 Struggling with research papers or hard docu...
Apr 16, 2026516 views - 04
A dev note on why the command line still matters in the age of vibe coding.
"Learn to love the command line. Leave the IDE behind." Okay, okay... I still use my IDE and its built-in terminal most of the time :) But honestly, I never r...
Jun 6, 2026110 views - 05
A funny take on the 1980s AI photo trend that turns into a real privacy point.
Idk who started this trend, but y’all are basically donating your entire camera roll to OpenAI for free 😭😂 “Make me look like I’m from the 1980s.” OpenAI: A...
Sep 10, 2026138 views
In their own words.
Nothing too polished, just notes along the journey.
Okay, okay... I still use my IDE and its built-in terminal most of the time :)
Fresh from the channel.
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