Sunday, Jul 7
I just made Ruby++
made by xuuso, submitted by nicholasbs
A guide to patching the Ruby interpreter's parser to add an increment (e.g., i++) operator.
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nicholasbs’s posts on Joy of Computing
Bio: I help run the Recurse Center.
In my spare time, I like learning Mandarin and walking around New York.
Wednesday, Jul 3
Choreographer-js: A simple library to take care of complicated animations
made by christinecha, submitted by nicholasbs
A simple library to take care of complex CSS animations.
Friday, Jun 28
SweetPea: A language for declaratively specifying randomized experimental designs
made by Annie ByReferenceNotByValue Cherkaev, submitted by nicholasbs
SweetPea is an early-stage language for declaratively specifying neuroscience and psychology experiments, as well as a run-time for generating trial sequences for those experiments.
Thursday, Jun 13
Browser-based motion detection
made by piratefsh, submitted by nicholasbs
A small JavaScript library for using your browser and web cam for motion detection.
Tuesday, Jun 11
Programmatically generating puzzles as SVGs
made by brindelle, submitted by nicholasbs
A Clojure library for generating puzzles as SVGs.
Monday, Jun 10
What RESTful actually means
made by laurenzlong, submitted by nicholasbs
An overview of Representational State Transfer (REST) and what it is.
Friday, Jun 7
Plotty Bird: Flappy Bird for a 1980s pen plotter
made by wesleyac, submitted by nicholasbs
A version of Flappy Bird for the HP7440A, a pen plotter from the 1980s.
Sunday, Jun 2
What's in a repository?
made by ngoldbaum, submitted by nicholasbs
The first in a series of posts exploring the innards of Mercurial, and how it stores repository data.
Thursday, May 30
The speed of BGP network propagation
made by Benjojo, submitted by nicholasbs
An analysis of Border Gateway Protocol propagation and drift.
Wednesday, May 29
How a File Format Led to a Crossword Scandal
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.