Joy of Computing

Who else hates doing repetitive tasks that you know could be automated? I know I do 🙋‍♀️. In this article I will discuss how I used Strava’s API and cron jobs to automatically log new activities for my virtual races on RunSignup. I love this project because while tutorials and such are great, it was so satisfying to build something that solved a real issue of my own! — kellyfoulk

Janet is a modern, ergonomic Lisp inspired by Clojure and Lua. Fugue is a library that extends Janet’s prototypal inheritance to provide a CLOS-style set of features. — zdsmith

This app uses Tonejs to play back MIDI files in the style of old video game music, or chiptunes. In the image, it's giving a rousing rendition of the Titanic theme song. Check out the code here: https://github.com/SophieShears/MidiToChiptune. — Mai

A post about exploring ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) to build a minimal linker in Zig. — nicholasbs

This game lets you test your ability to pick out a color based on its CSS name. Check out the code here: https://github.com/EmilyBonar/color-guesser. — Mai

Can you infinitely nest iFrames? Bryan walks through his attempts to do this, and how he eventually succeeded. — nicholasbs

Jamie asks "How safe is zig, on a scale from c to rust?" — davidbalbert

Tinky Care is an eink dashboard for a Pimoroni Inky Impression that shows self care tweets and org-mode completed task counts for the past week. You can also set a pomodoro timer with a button push to stay on task and remember to take breaks! — mclare

This post presents an efficient and accurate solution to cubic Bézier curve fitting, along with some insight into what makes this a hard problem. — Mai

If you give Flenser a CSV, it outputs an HTML file with information that will help you get to know a new-to-you dataset. Useful! — Mai