Wednesday, Oct 13
Binty
made by GAM, submitted by porterjamesj
A naive integer compressor written in Rust and used as part of this galaxy visualization: https://shreet.surge.sh/
Joy of Computing
A new link every weekday from the RC community A new link every weekday from the RC community
Tuesday, Oct 12
gzint
made by theSquashSH, submitted by porterjamesj
Efficiently store very large integers in Python with this library.
Monday, Oct 11
Wordn't
made by joshuacortez, submitted by porterjamesj
A word game for your terminal about trying *not* to make words.
Friday, Oct 8
email-address-list
made by eaon, submitted by porterjamesj
A Rust parser for lists of email addresses as typically formatted in the "To:", "bcc:", etc. fields of emails.
Thursday, Oct 7
Squares
made by Margo, submitted by porterjamesj
Procedural art based on a doodle. See it run here: http://hackers.cool/~margo/squares.html
Wednesday, Oct 6
Tools to explore BGP
made by bork, submitted by nicholasbs
A (timeline!) post about tools you can use to explore and understand BGP, the protocol at the root of Facebook's recent outage.
Friday, Oct 1
Escher Circuits: Using Vision to Perform Computation
made by rottytooth, submitted by Mai
This blog post explicates a paper proposing a hypothetical, mind-bending concept: images that trick the eye into performing computation.
Thursday, Sep 30
I keep making things out of checkboxes
made by bryanbraun, submitted by Mai
You thought you knew checkboxes? Think again.
Tuesday, Sep 28
Imaging mounted disk volumes under duress
A tool for creating backups when you can’t use a point in time snapshot on the block level. Check out the code here: https://github.com/benjojo/hot-clone.