Joy of Computing

When someone's obituary appears in the New York Times, FOIA The Dead sends automated requests to the FBI for their records on the recently departed, and publishes the results. So far it has almost 4,000 pages of (sometimes-mundane, sometimes-fascinating) records on 55 people which probably wouldn't have been released otherwise. — rachel

This falling-sand game makes some beautiful emergent visualizations. — porterjamesj

A simple spreadsheet that runs in the browser. It supports arithmetic formulas and cell references in under 600 lines of JavaScript and CSS. — davidbalbert

Hide secret messages in pictures of cats — porterjamesj

A compiler from a subset of Python to WebAssembly — porterjamesj

It was so fun watching this live at RC! — porterjamesj

A novel in collaboration with Ernest Hemingway and the Wordnik API — mouse

An outline of how to think about the existential quantifier as it is encoded in higher order type theory. — dk

A tool for automatically generating documentation from the recorded behavior of a program. — porterjamesj

Gitlet is an implementation of Git in JavaScript. It's a wonderful example of building a project with the intention of learning. — jollysonali