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porterjamesj’s posts on Joy of Computing

Monday, Jan 27

NeXTstep on the HP 712 Part 1: Installation (permalink)

made by sophaskins, submitted by porterjamesj
Sophie's exploration of installing NeXTstep on an 80s workstation computer, part of her ongoing series about historical operating systems. — porterjamesj
Tuesday, Jan 21

monkey (permalink)

made by Evan, submitted by porterjamesj
An implementation of the Monkey programming language from "Writing An Interpreter In Go." — porterjamesj
Monday, Jan 20

pi-zero-security-key (permalink)

made by mat, submitted by porterjamesj
An open source FIDO2 USB security key made with a Raspberry Pi. — porterjamesj
Saturday, Jan 18

obscura (permalink)

made by emma, submitted by porterjamesj
A game written in Elm to learn about functional programming. — porterjamesj
Thursday, Jan 16

Flattening quadratic Béziers (permalink)

made by Raph, submitted by porterjamesj
Raph explains how to render Bézier curves by turning them into a sequence of straight lines. — porterjamesj
Friday, Jan 10

Thermografree (permalink)

made by loganw, submitted by porterjamesj
An open source, medium resolution, and broadband thermal imaging camera. — porterjamesj
Wednesday, Jan 8

alg_structs (permalink)

made by Shon, submitted by porterjamesj
Implementations of algebraic structures for OCaml. — porterjamesj
Monday, Jan 6

Streeteasier (permalink)

made by jennyx, submitted by porterjamesj
A browser extension that lets you see the actual rent prices for NYC apartments on Streeteasy, instead of the "promotional" prices they're often advertised with. — porterjamesj
Tuesday, Dec 31

wasmface (permalink)

made by noahlevenson, submitted by porterjamesj
Fast face detection in the browser using WebAssembly. — porterjamesj
Sunday, Dec 29

The Haar-like show (permalink)

made by noahlevenson, submitted by porterjamesj
A slowed-down visualization of computing Haar-like features for face detection algorithms. — porterjamesj