Joy of Computing

Geolocate dialects' phonemes on a GLSL-shader ASCII mashup world map! — rfong

"Twas the night before start-up and all through the net, not a packet was moving; no bit nor octet." — davidbalbert

An exploration of techniques for using natural language processing to better understand literary works, with example analysis of Shakespeare using Python and NLTK. — nicholasbs

A deep dive into the performance characteristics of accessing multidimensional arrays in row-major order vs column-major order. Cache misses, cycle counts, etc. — davidbalbert

A post showing how you can measure and graph memory usage of a test program, and then use this to estimate the sizes of the L1, L2, and L3 caches for the CPU the code ran on! — nicholasbs

A self-described "experience report" comparing what it's like to build a web API in OCaml and its libraries to building one in Python. — nicholasbs

Simple, useful tips for cleaning up, centering, and justifying strings for nice output in Ruby! — nicholasbs

Jamie makes a clear, compelling case for SQL’s shortcomings and what we could replace it with. — davidbalbert

A time management system for autodidacts, written mostly in JavaScript. It's built for personal use and combines a few different time management techniques. — Mai

A Jupyter-like environment that uses Markdown and outputs pure, self-contained web pages. More details about why Will is building this project: https://wrla.ch/blog/2021/06/irydium-points-of-departure/ — nicholasbs