Speculative Game Mechanics in Paradigm Shell

made and submitted by isi
Paradigm Shell is an experimental game that explores crude oil as a transformative, vibrant, time-condensing form of matter. Through recalculating vertices in vertex shaders virtual materials morph and mutate.

The Ghost of T.S. Eliot

made by ruby childs, submitted by rachel
This neural network, trained on the works of T.S. Eliot, generates new poetry based on his work. It also raises the question of how much an artist's work--and the new work that comes from it--preserves them once they're gone.

Optimizing Inefficiency: Human folly and the quest for the worst sorting algorithm

made and submitted by DanielMiller
I try to maintain a sense of wonder throughout my process of learning CS. In this blog post I wrote something a bit more philosophical, drawing on training as a musician to try to provide an answer to why seemingly inefficient algorithms can still be interesting and compelling objects of study. (Image is CC BY-NC-ND 2.0; source cited in post.)

Generating Fractals with SQL Queries

made and submitted by malisper
Producing fractals with Postgres. What isn't there to like?

piggy

made by santigepigon, submitted by porterjamesj
A Clojure library that helps you test specs for breaking changes.

telnet-site

made and submitted by mbionchi
An oldschool-bbs-like content engine that runs over telnet! Live demo available at escape-sequence.net 4444 (use the `telnet` command in your favourite terminal emulator to connect).

A Go implementation of Poly1305 that makes sense

made by filippo, submitted by porterjamesj
Filippo does great work trying to demystify cryptography and improve implementations of cryptographic algorithms, and this is a nice example.

ArchiveBox

made by theSquashSH, submitted by rachel
An open source, self-hosted, personal internet archive. It saves HTML, JS, PDF, and many more types of media files from your browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc.

Postgres! Plays! Pokemon

made and submitted by stillinbeta
This is a Postgres wrapper for Pokemon Red. It lets you edit your inventory, party stats, and a couple of story triggers. An emulator runs pokemon red, then you can run SQL queries to modify the game state.

new fruit pictures

made by mouse, submitted by parker
This bot creates beautiful drawings of whimsical "new fruits" from the future. It paints them in the style of the USDA's Pomological Watercolor Collection, but with Javascript instead. There's also a Twitter bot version at https://twitter.com/new_fruits