Programming

Why do I program? Just for fun. No, really.

• Programming as play, by Austin Henley
• Why I prefer making useless stuff, by Austin Henley
• Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built just for yourself?, Hacker News

Interesting links and projects:

• The Architecture of Open Source Applications
• Coding Curves by Keith Peters
  • A great collection of information about how computers draw curves using math (lots and lots of math). Lots of visuals, reads fairly easy. It’s great.
• christina-de-martinez/babel-plugin-glowup-vibes, a Babel plugin that translates internet slang into valid Javascript
  • Found via this YouTube short

Concepts

• Digraphs and Trigraphs: sequences of two or three characters in source code that are treated by single characters by the compiler.
  • In C, ??! translates to |
  • HN discussion

Project Ideas and Collections

• codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x, a collection of links to instructions on how to build basic (or full-featured) versions of lots of things, all in various languages.