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An Arduino-powered remote door opener for your New York apartment! — porterjamesj

"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae." Jesse made a Chrome extension to test this theory by jumbling the letters of words in your browser while leaving the first and last letter intact. Turns out it's not as true as you might have thought! You can install the extension here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jumbletron/mkkhhidcfedbiofenhlnlhjpndfbcpmi — porterjamesj

Sol implemented a raymarching rendering algorithm to draw fractals; they're beautiful! You can see the code on GitHub and more image examples here: https://gist.github.com/solsarratea/6c5166db6c70c5d09dbd4da52025f3e4 — porterjamesj

A better/faster search interface for the Messages app on macOS. — porterjamesj

An extensive, clear explanation of how to write a lambda calculus interpreter in Haskell. — porterjamesj

A narrative scripting engine similar to Ink (http://github.com/inkle/ink), but more portable and implemented using Haxe. — porterjamesj

Brian gives a deep explanation of how Monte Carlo Tree Search (a key technique for game AIs) works. He implemented the AlphaGo paper from scratch, so he should know! — porterjamesj

A CHIP-8 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip-8) interpreter written in Rust. — porterjamesj

A tool for turning text into braille dotgrids. — porterjamesj

An implementation of Lamba calculus using Elixir. — porterjamesj