Joy of Computing

Tired of the same old dystopias that stomp free speech/freedom of movement? Randomized Dystopia suggests other rights your fictional tyranny could deny its citizens! A Flask app remixing statements of human rights, children's rights, and women's rights. (source: https://gitlab.com/brainwane/randomized-dystopia) — brainwane

SOIE is a GUI application written in Python and C++ for the interactive exploration of simulations of self-organizing active particles. Roujia's paper is here: https://www.roujiawen.com/portfolio/pdfs/interactive_evolution.pdf — rachel

As the docs note, "Sadly, a lot of today’s open data is trapped in PDF tables." — brainwane

Mary wrote a little Lisp and then annotated the source code. If you've never written an interpreter for a programming language before, this is a great place to start. — davidbalbert

A simple development setup for modern JavaScript, without having to pull in big dependencies or extra complexity (e.g., Create React App). — nicholasbs

A small zine about two tools I love to use when I'm playing around & lightly sketching or prototyping to figure out what I want to do: bpython python -i — brainwane

A web app that helps you learn to sight read. Hook up a midi keyboard and try it here: https://aceofheart5.github.io/WebMidiLearning/. — Mai

A tool that, given a link, will crawl various sources to get interesting details about that link, including *other* links in the comments on news aggregators. — nicholasbs

A deep dive into the inner workings of printing strings in several languages, with a focus on how Zig balances simplicity and control. — nicholasbs

A philosophical essay exploring computer security, the language of machines, and the difference between how they exist and how we expect them to exist. — f_