Joy of Computing

Instead of suggesting books that are similar to ones you've already read, this recommendation engine tries to broaden your horizons by showing you what you're not reading or paying attention to. — Mai

A thoughtful blog post on the value of measuring vs. building. — Mai

Janet bindings to the J array programming language! — vaibhavsagar

Advice and suggestions for a set of tools for small teams to use for machine learning research projects. — nicholasbs

Create pixel art and music... with your (anonymized) face. — rachel

A Tweetcart is a game or visual demo that fits in 280 characters (or fewer) of PICO-8 code. Souren animated a wind sock, with 19 characters to spare! — rachel

A tool that scrapes and analyzes books to create Anki flashcard decks of vocabulary words. — rachel

An emacs theme that is well-suited to modes like org-mode, markdown-mode, or any mode that works well with variable-pitch mode. Check out Kunal's blog post about creating Poet here: https://explog.in/notes/poet.html — rachel

A profile of YorLang, a programming language that takes its syntax from JavaScript and its keywords and culture from Yoruba. The post has lots of interesting links to follow for further reading, and you can explore the YorLang docs here: https://anoniscoding.github.io/yorlang/docs/doc.html. — Mai

Colin has been working on Druid[1], a cross-platform GUI framework, for a while now. In this blog post, he lays out the set of things a GUI framework for writing desktop applications needs to handle. [1]https://github.com/linebender/druid — davidbalbert