Joy of Computing

How Elm maintains purity while working with random numbers. — porterjamesj

A walkthrough for implementing the Tracepath command line tool in Rust! — nicholasbs

An explanation and walkthrough for making a ripple animation, including both the math and JavaScript to make it work. — nicholasbs

Do you ever want to take a break from ‘serious’ projects and just write something quick, simple and funny? That’s what I did today at the Recurse Center’s Creative Coding event where you have two hours to create a program based on a random prompt. At five o’clock we gathered in a squished Zoom room to hear the day’s prompt: Distorting Time. Then, with a flurry, we all got down to business building whatever schemes had popped into our heads. Well, actually, in reality I sat staring at my glass of water for about ten minutes. What program could I write to illustrate ‘Distorting Time’? I decided to randomize the last modified time of all files on my laptop. Just kidding... — kellyfoulk

A CTF web app that teaches developers security by showing what vulnerable code looks like, how to exploit vulnerabilities, and how to patch them. — porterjamesj

Okra is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language designed to make scripting easy and maintainable. — porterjamesj

An education collection of data structures and algorithms written in TypeScript. — porterjamesj

A geographic visualization of the cost of beer, coffee, and bread around the world, using data scraped from a variety of sources. You can see the code here: https://github.com/christalee/cost-of-drinking — porterjamesj

A library of pasta shapes visualized in three.js! — Mai

This site keeps track of End Of Life dates for various tools and technologies. It collates this data and presents it in an easily accessible format, with URLs that are easy to guess and remember. Code is here: https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date — Mai