Joy of Computing

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

Jim decided to learn about modulation. To transmit speech without modulating it onto a carrier signal, you'd need a 3.75 km long antenna! — davidbalbert

A computer generated album of music exploring events predicted to happen between now and 10^10^10^56 years in the future. It plays live in your browser. Source: https://github.com/jimkang/soff/ Bandcamp: https://jimkang.bandcamp.com/album/the-sound-of-the-far-future — davidbalbert

Jamie continues exploring the bounds of relational programming by implementing a CRDT in both SQL and Imp, a language of his design. — davidbalbert

Have you ever wanted to write your own Unix shell? Here's a concise walkthrough. — davidbalbert

Jamie walks through his process implementing a text CRDT in SQL and in his programming environment, imp. — Mai

A collection of posts about building developer tools, including why you might want to work on them; how to identify good opportunities for new tools; common pitfalls when building them; suggestions for building good tools; and much more! — nicholasbs