Joy of Computing

A symbolic differentiator in OCaml. — porterjamesj

Sam talks about what he learned writing a syntax analyzer for the programming language Jack (a Java variant)! Code here: https://github.com/mnopqr1/MyNand2Tetris/tree/master/SyntaxAnalyzer — rachel

I worked backwards from coucou, a GUI for ML-based melody harmonizing: https://coconet.glitch.me/# and replaced the pre-trained model with a simple, probability-based harmonizing method. In the process, I learned about JS / HTML, basic DOM manipulation, statistical libraries via the npm ecosystem, and using webpack for bundling and dependency management. (My page takes a minute to load.) — jlpiedra

A case for using "Persisted Queries" with GraphQL to get some of the benefits of REST (without losing the benefits of GraphQL). — nicholasbs

Tiny executable techniques for dealing with emoji — Shon

Are you doing a repetitive task that feels like it could be automated? I was. Every day for the past year I’d been importing new users for an app into MailChimp by hand. No more! Now that I’ve learned how to code I’ve handed that task over to Python and Cron. — kellyfoulk

A deep-dive on how the Flask-SQLAlchemy library works, including a basic re-implementation that demonstrates the concepts! You can see the code here: https://github.com/klfoulk16/flask-sqlalchemy-bind — porterjamesj

A great overview of Ruby 3.0 garbage collector's internal constants and what they're used for. — nicholasbs

clocviz is an extension of cloc that lets you "analyze a target codebase and render interactive visualizations: users can traverse the file tree with a simple mouse click and see statistics including lines by file, lines by language, percentage composition per language, etc." — rachel

A fun learning experience with a whole lot of pieces, and a nice souvenir from my RC batch to boot! — Mikkel