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Thursday, Jan 10

Sandspiel (permalink)

made by Max Bittker, submitted by porterjamesj
This falling-sand game makes some beautiful emergent visualizations. — porterjamesj
Wednesday, Jan 9

A tiny spreadsheet (permalink)

made and submitted by davidbalbert
A simple spreadsheet that runs in the browser. It supports arithmetic formulas and cell references in under 600 lines of JavaScript and CSS. — davidbalbert
Tuesday, Jan 8

Steganocats (permalink)

made by Jake Davis, submitted by porterjamesj
Hide secret messages in pictures of cats — porterjamesj
Monday, Jan 7

Compyler (permalink)

made by rodarmor, submitted by porterjamesj
A compiler from a subset of Python to WebAssembly — porterjamesj
Sunday, Jan 6

touchscreen-instrument (permalink)

made by shahn, dan, submitted by porterjamesj
It was so fun watching this live at RC! — porterjamesj
Saturday, Jan 5

The Antiquated Omi (permalink)

made and submitted by mouse
A novel in collaboration with Ernest Hemingway and the Wordnik API — mouse
Friday, Jan 4

Existential Quantification in Type Theory (permalink)

made and submitted by dk
An outline of how to think about the existential quantifier as it is encoded in higher order type theory. — dk
Thursday, Jan 3

Margin Notes (permalink)

made by geoffreylitt, submitted by porterjamesj
A tool for automatically generating documentation from the recorded behavior of a program. — porterjamesj
Wednesday, Jan 2

Gitlet (permalink)

made by maryrosecook, submitted by jollysonali
Gitlet is an implementation of Git in JavaScript. It's a wonderful example of building a project with the intention of learning. — jollysonali
Tuesday, Jan 1

My First Emacs Commit (permalink)

made by nickdrozd, submitted by rachel
Nick describes his first commit to "real-deal core GNU Emacs," with some interesting commentary and historical context. — rachel