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A command-line audio synthesizer written in C. — porterjamesj

An interactive map that uses data from Wikipedia to visualize the variation in what different foods are called around the world. You can see the code here: https://github.com/nmicht/food-language-variety — porterjamesj

A long-term project aimed at analyzing large numbers of online recipes for a given food (e.g. meatloaf) to answer questions like which ingredients are the most important, what interesting variations exist, and what's the "average" meatloaf recipe. — porterjamesj

A Python program for determining how well two words rhyme. You can read about how it works here: https://tomlisankie.com/blog/2017/03/15/prhymer-how-it-works/ — porterjamesj

Aaron designed a light-up printed circuit board of the RC logo! — porterjamesj

Gargi's delightful RustConf talk explains syscalls and how to write a system call tracer (like strace) using Rust. — porterjamesj

A browser-based implementation of the game Plinko. You can see the source code here: https://github.com/alejvillanueva/ComputerPlinko — porterjamesj

A tool for teaching web programming that interactively visualizes how the DOM and CSS selectors work. You can see the code here: https://github.com/wylieconlon/dom-simulator — porterjamesj

Sher Minn built an interpreter for the long-defuct "ART 1" programming language from the 1960s, and used it to recreate some of the earliest pieces of computer art. You can see the code here: https://github.com/piratefsh/art1.js — porterjamesj

A reimplementation of the SQLite database, written once in C, and again in Python. — porterjamesj