Joy of Computing

A Twitter propaganda bot that reads @mentions and automatically generates memes about Chance the Rapper running for mayor of Chicago. — Mai

A browser extension that turns a website into an "attention map" by highlighting attention-hungry elements like buttons and forms. — porterjamesj

Seems harmless... (Source here if you want to confirm for yourself: https://github.com/edisgreat/skynet-simulator) — nicholasbs

A distributed key-value store using Raft for consistency. — porterjamesj

Play Go online with friends with this Rust-powered goban. Check out the code here: https://github.com/cthulahoops/rusty-goban — rachel

A script that causes text to decay by converting a text file to an image, then OCRing the image back to a text file. Doesn't only work on Ozymandias, but does work on Ozymandias... on multiple levels. — Mai

A look back at Raph's experiences building Xi, a novel text editor written in Rust. — davidbalbert

A command-line tool for stitching images together into a grid. — porterjamesj

A great new spoiler feature for open source chat tool Zulip (everyone knows we're fans!), plus some good conversation in the PR comments that can help anyone gain a better understanding of how to contribute a feature to an open source application. — Mai

A talk from !!con 2020 about how Andrew uses the blur markup language (which he created!) to write chance poetry that changes every time you refresh the page. Learn more about the blur markup language here: http://bml-lang.org/en/latest/ — rachel