An Evergreen post that just has random links to things i run into…

Actually Random

• Hayao Miyazaki has failed to retire a fourth time (2023)
• Math for Game Developers (2023)
• World-building with GPT (2023) (HN)
• Brazil: How Guarana Soda Became a National Icon (2023)
• My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2022) (HN)
• Wealth shown to scale (2021)
• Distibuting Mac Apps Outside the App Store (2021)
• Email: Explained from First Principles (2021) (HN)
• Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) vs USB-C Chargers (2020)
• Bill Watterson Pearls and Swine Guest Artist (2014)
• Pranking my roommate wth target Facebook ads (2014)
• Audio Engineer Explains NPR’s Signature Sound (2015)
• Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem
• Nutri: Nutrient insights on your groceries
• Worldle
• Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
• 30 Days of Python
• Plain Text Sports
• MacOs Internals
• How to Hack Hacker News (HN)

Rust

• Implementing SM-2 in Rust (2024)
• Rust: Ownership and Memory Internals (2021) (HN)
• Rust: A unique Perspective (2019) (HN)
• Too Many Linked Lists (2018)
• Google - Comprehensive Rust

On Building Websites

• In Defense of Text Labels (2025) (HN)
• Picture perfect images with the modern <img> element (2022)
• CSS System Colors (2021)
• ARCHITECTURE.md (2021)
• How to use SVG as a Placeholder (2017)
• Alt-Texts (2017)
• Visual design rules you can safely follow every time
• Payments-101-for-a-Developer
• Counter – Simple and free web analytics
• Flutter Plugin
• Making SVG Loading Spinners (2024) (HN)

Geo

• Rendering every single road within a city (2024)
• Convert OpenStreetMap Data to Protomaps PMTiles with Tilemaker (2023)
• Visualizing Hospital Accessibility (2023)
• How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source solutions (2023) (HN)
• QGIS (2023) (HN)
• Instant Geo
• nominatim
• topoview
• qgis
• arcgis offline
• lowlighter xml
• kml
• how-to-extract-google-maps-coordinates

Build your own…

• KV Store (2023)(HN)
• nand2tetris

Other Code

• How video games use lookup tables (2024)
• Talk: What the heck is the event loop anyway? (2014)
• Little Data: How do we query personal data? (2013)
• Struct - A Feed-Centric Chat Platform

Language

• The Blueprint for Spanish Fluency (2023)
• A Practical Guide on How to Buy and Access Japanese E-Books (2022)
• How I Learned French in 12 Months (2020)
• Emoji Flashcards (My project)
• My personal HSK and Katas flashcards
• Taiwan Coffee Terminology Translations
• Cantonese Font (HN)
• Chineasy
• linQ

Fixing things

• Always paste without formatting on macOS
• MacOS xcodebuild slowdown

Other

• Ricoh GR Recipes