Joy of Computing

A short description of reverse-engineering the puzzle solutions data file for the 1987 DOS "Wheel of Fortune" game, with OCaml parser and printer examples. — yomimono

A glitchy experimental interactive experience built with machine learning (body tracking) and real-time shaders. Move your arms, head and knees to interact with the visuals and mutate them. — ilithya

What makes a bug cursed? A blog post about tracking down a particularly satisfying one. — Mai

This is a demo of a private machine learning protocol on the Ethereum blockchain, which implements a zk-SNARK proof that verifies a private linear regression model has a certain accuracy under a public dataset. — liaopeiyuan

In this blog post, Lindsey Kuper shares her research agenda at the intersection of distributed systems and programming languages. Read it for an interesting overview of the problem space, a cool example of working in public, and an invitation to collaborate! — Mai

A library of Rust macros that make it easier to express relationships between types. — porterjamesj

A puzzle-platformer where you traverse the environment using projectiles as platforms. See the code here: https://github.com/jackckelly/orb_game — porterjamesj

Recreating a 19th century analog computer that predicts the tides -- with Legos! — Mai

It's a delightful puzzle, imagining what's inside a weird MTA subway vent that looks like a brownstone. Great original music and illustrations! Built with Svelte. — alizauf

A blog post about testing user interactions in JavaScript with the userEvent API. — Mai