Joy of Computing

An analysis of Border Gateway Protocol propagation and drift. — nicholasbs

Saul designed a plaintext file format for crossword puzzles and a data pipeline to compile a dataset of over 70,000 puzzles. This talk is an overview of how they did this and discovered a large-scale plagiarism scandal. — nicholasbs

The popular crackle pop program implemented in two languages but one single file. Useless & funny! — xuuso

A talk about the joy of drawing, diagramming, and documentation workflows — mamrotynka

Dhananjay wrote up some clear, helpful instructions on how to run Elm on FreeBSD. — alicia

A tool that visualizes the internal structure of a Git repository in real-time. With snakes! — vaibhavsagar

A game development environment with a Scheme-like language. Every time you change your code, Dal Segno rewinds your game back to the last time that piece of code was run. — nicholasbs

A small program that blinks a light on a Raspberry Pi, written in pure AArch64 assembly. — gosullivan

The project is part of a larger ecosystem of tools to support literate programming, including lit-web, which lets web browsers extract and run JavaScript code from blocks embedded in Markdown files. — nicholasbs

"Git is a weekend hack which looks like a weekend hack." --Bram Cohen Zero git, a minimal implementation of git written in a few hundred lines of code. Take a looksie how little a weekend hack git actually does. Or dive in and try implementing some of the subcommands yourself! — jmou