Monday, Jul 22
Dwergmuis
made by pepijndevos, submitted by davidbalbert
Pepijn made a mouse out of wood. What a cool project.
~davidbalbert
davidbalbert’s posts on Joy of Computing
Friday, Jul 12
Reply: a REPL for Perl
made by doy, submitted by davidbalbert
A Perl REPL with support for tab completion, automatic class reloading, history support, and more.
Thursday, Jul 11
Computer latency: 1977-2017
made by impostor, submitted by davidbalbert
A review of the last 30 years of computer input latency. Computers are getting faster, but latency keeps growing.
Monday, Jul 1
Xi, a fast, native text editor
Xi (pronounced "Zigh") is cross platform, but it has a native UI on every operating system that it runs on. Text is rendered on the GPU, so it's blazing fast.
Thursday, Jun 27
Code Lauren
made by maryrosecook, submitted by davidbalbert
A live programming environment for making games. It supports running code in both directions: forward and reverse.
Monday, Jun 17
Dash
made by s4y, submitted by davidbalbert
Dash lets you display the contents of a web page on your Mac desktop. Whenever you update the HTML file, Dash redraws itself. It's a great tool for scripting.
Sunday, Jun 9
Age specification, a simple file encryption tool & format
Age is a replacement for GPG's file encryption features that will be easier to use without making mistakes.
Thursday, May 16
The Cover of The Sun Also Rises
made by duncan, submitted by davidbalbert
A picture of the cover of The Sun Also Rises, read to you pixel by pixel. 800 chapters long. The full audio recording is 2.48 GB.
Sunday, May 12
2D Graphics on Modern GPU
made by Raph, submitted by davidbalbert
Original research on implementing a performant 2D imaging model on the GPU.
Tuesday, Apr 30
Recursive Filesystem Entries
made by wesleyac, submitted by davidbalbert
Wesley put a 4GB file in a 232KB file system by making some clever modifications to the FAT.
