Joy of Computing

A blog post covering the history of the compositor introduced in Mac OS X and the tradeoffs it demands. — Mai

Open sourced color truth! Vote on some ambiguous colors and see the most controversial ones. See the source code here: https://github.com/robinovitch61/color-controversy — robinovitch61

A book of "playable" poetry that's also kind of a game and also kind of an instrument. Source: https://github.com/toddwords/hotwriting — nicholasbs

A custom (and beautiful!) display of what's playing now on New York's classical music station. The code is here: https://github.com/SaraBee/nowplaying. — Mai

A simple "webhook server" that runs scripts in response to HTTP requests. — porterjamesj

A high-performance tool for exporting metrics from Prometheus to Cassandra. — porterjamesj

An overview of how the NumPy family of libraries help make Python more performant for scientific computing, without losing the benefits Python brings. — nicholasbs

If you're interested in software archaeology or Processing, you'll enjoy Bonnie's exploration of an eternal question: is Processing, in fact, Java? If not Java, what is it? — rachel

An interactive exploration into a math-y rabbit hole that began when Patrick decided he didn't want his animated trains to look like they were colliding. — Mai

Jamie was writing a SQL query compiler. Writing a compiler is a great way to get acquainted with all the weird nooks and crannies of a language. He has documented some for our reading pleasure. — davidbalbert