Monday, Feb 7
Predicting the tide with a Lego computer
made by pepijndevos, submitted by Mai
Recreating a 19th century analog computer that predicts the tides -- with Legos!
Joy of Computing
A new link every weekday from the RC community A new link every weekday from the RC community
Friday, Feb 4
58 Joralemon - A Myst-like game about the MTA
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.
Thursday, Feb 3
Testing-library user event with fake timers
A blog post about testing user interactions in JavaScript with the userEvent API.
Wednesday, Feb 2
plop
made by rileyjshaw, submitted by porterjamesj
A macOS tool for text expansion, scriptable with JavaScript.
Tuesday, Feb 1
audioscope
made by davidlu, submitted by porterjamesj
A perceptually meaningful audio visualizer. Read more about how it works here: https://delu.medium.com/a-perceptually-meaningful-audio-visualizer-ee72051781bc#.p87d5rrxg
Tuesday, Jan 25
Serifu: a markup language for comic book scripts
made by Paul Starr, submitted by Mai
Serifu is a simple markup language for composing comic book scripts (in particular, translations of Japanese manga) as plain text. You can check out a demo web-based editor for it here: https://serifu-sketchpad.glitch.me/. There's also an InDesign extension!
Friday, Jan 21
Who Moved My Cheese: Laziness in Clojure
This blog post walks through what lazy sequences are and how to implement them from scratch in Clojure.
Thursday, Jan 20
Whistle switch
Turn your lights on and off by whistling! Click through to watch a demo video and check out the code.
Wednesday, Jan 19
Ghost in the ethernet optic
In this blog post, Ben details his explorations of a smart SFP optical transceiver.
Tuesday, Jan 18
Rewriting my toy blockchain in Rust
made by savarin, submitted by nicholasbs
Ezzeri shares a clear overview of what a blockchain is, and how he ported his toy implementation from Python to Rust.
