Joy of Computing

The project is part of a larger ecosystem of tools to support literate programming, including lit-web, which lets web browsers extract and run JavaScript code from blocks embedded in Markdown files. — nicholasbs

"Git is a weekend hack which looks like a weekend hack." --Bram Cohen Zero git, a minimal implementation of git written in a few hundred lines of code. Take a looksie how little a weekend hack git actually does. Or dive in and try implementing some of the subcommands yourself! — jmou

An exploration of how data parsers can be exploited to create Denial of Service attacks and how you can defend against them. — nicholasbs

Spectrophone is a reverse spectrogram. It's a novel musical instrument, which you play by moving colored swatches in front of a video camera. — nicholasbs

A visual interface for turning an SVG into XY coördinates. — nicholasbs

An open source project for creating visual timelines, which show you the structure of a video at a glance, by visualizing its color development. Comes with a YouTube plugin! — blinry

A picture of the cover of The Sun Also Rises, read to you pixel by pixel. 800 chapters long. The full audio recording is 2.48 GB. — davidbalbert

Incarceration.info is an interactive exploration of incarceration data provided by the Vera Institute of Justice. Code: https://github.com/corintxt/incarceration-interactive — alicia

A BitTorrent client in Haskell! — vaibhavsagar

A compiler from Scheme to Lua bytecode. I love seeing compilers with unexpected source language / output language pairs, and this is a great example! — vaibhavsagar