Joy of Computing

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

So you just created your first Flask application, what’s next? If you’re like me, your app works, but it’s like a baby deer that’s lost its mother—its chances of ever growing old and maturing are slim to none. Let’s fix that. In my opinion, it’s much easier to write something well from the start than it is to go back and fix something crappy; however, the best way to learn is by fixing your mistakes. Therefore, this post will not explain how to write a perfect Flask app from scratch; instead, it will highlight 12 mistakes I made while creating my first major Flask app, explain why these mistakes were prohibitive to growth, and demonstrate how I fixed them. — kellyfoulk

WebRTC for the Curious is a book on how WebRTC really works. This about the protocols, and not just the APIs in the browser. The best way you can learn WebRTC is going one level lower. Also contains history from protocol authors themselves. — Sean-Der

How do you get parrot emojis to do the wave? By writing a script in Swift, obviously. — Mai