Joy of Computing

Andrew built a tree search-based chess engine using Rust. It plays well enough to beat human players! — porterjamesj

Doodler is a simple multi-window drawing app that gives me sweet, sweet Microsoft Paint nostalgia. It's built with React, TypeScript, and the Gambar library, which Jesen also built! You can use it here: https://doodler-js.herokuapp.com/ — rachel

A guide to getting started programming a Macintosh running System 7. — davidbalbert

An Arduino-powered remote door opener for your New York apartment! — porterjamesj

An overview of a paper where the authors reviewed real-world bugs in open source software to evaluate whether or not Go makes concurrency bugs less likely. — nicholasbs

As part of writing Zig, a new programming language to replace C, Andrew has also written a C compiler frontend with all sorts of tricks including seamless cross-compilation. — davidbalbert

"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae." Jesse made a Chrome extension to test this theory by jumbling the letters of words in your browser while leaving the first and last letter intact. Turns out it's not as true as you might have thought! You can install the extension here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jumbletron/mkkhhidcfedbiofenhlnlhjpndfbcpmi — porterjamesj

Sol implemented a raymarching rendering algorithm to draw fractals; they're beautiful! You can see the code on GitHub and more image examples here: https://gist.github.com/solsarratea/6c5166db6c70c5d09dbd4da52025f3e4 — porterjamesj

A better/faster search interface for the Messages app on macOS. — porterjamesj

An extensive, clear explanation of how to write a lambda calculus interpreter in Haskell. — porterjamesj