Joy of Computing

A two-player coop game about doing surgery on each other. — porterjamesj

Part of a series of detailed posts to help you become a better Vim user! — nicholasbs

Dan deconstructs Fred Brooks's assertions about accidental and essential complexity from No Silver Bullet in a way that only Dan can. — davidbalbert

A blog post exploring practical applications of the Levenshtein distance in spell checkers, Git, and beyond. — Mai

In 2021, New Yorkers will vote for the first time using Ranked Choice Voting. This interactive simulation shows how votes get redistributed in rounds of counting. Source code at https://glitch.com/edit/#!/rcv-nyc. — Alec

PList, or property list, files are files which store serialized objects. On MacOS they are used for storing a user's settings information. Eg. if you set your dock to be on the left, bottom, or right. On the command line there is a `defaults` command by which you can inspect and update your options manually. It can be somewhat tedious. This program, written in Go, will output the command to make those changes in real time as you make changes in your system. — catilac

In 2014, Filippo made the de facto standard tool for testing to see if your website was vulnerable to Heartbleed. (source: https://github.com/FiloSottile/Heartbleed) — davidbalbert

A toy programming language made to learn about programming languages and compilers. — g-w1

A fun walkthrough of calculating pi in your browser using the Chudnovsky algorithm. — nicholasbs

These interactive visualizations show time on the ice shared by different NHL players. As Jemma notes, they tell stories of traded players, injuries and changes in lines. The code is here: https://github.com/jemmaissroff/hockey — Mai