ASCII-Aquarium
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ASCII Aquarium turns your Cheap Yellow Display (ESP32-2432S028R) into an tiny animated ASCII fish tank. It renders a live aquarium scene with animated ...
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Slow Bloom: a meditation app that doesn't want anything from you
Agam Brahma
I built Slow Bloom because I wanted an app that didn't want anything from me.Every meditation or wellness app I tried eventually turned into another thing competing for my attention: streaks, notifications, the whole retention playbook. I wanted something that just... existed.What It IsSlow Bloom...
Making Concurrency Visible: Gerbil Playground v1.2
Agam Brahma
Gerbil Playground is a browser-based REPL for Gerbil Scheme — a batteries-included, actor-oriented Scheme that compiles to C via Gambit. You open a page, get a real REPL backed by a dedicated container, and start writing Scheme. No install, no setup.v1.0 shipped the core: a stateful REPL, a...
A Playground for Gerbil Scheme
Agam Brahma
One kind of side project I get a kick out of: building tools for languages I find interesting but that don't have the ecosystem gravity to attract them on their own. Last year it was Coalton, a typed Lisp that compiles through Common Lisp. This time it's Gerbil.WhyGerbil Scheme is one of those...
Patchwork
Agam Brahma
It all started by us making "quilts" at restaurantsWhen my kid was young enough to need crayons to survive a long dinner, we had a ritual. We'd flip the paper menu to the blank side, draw a grid, and we'd take turns filling in squares: little scenes, doodles, whatever. No rules except stay in your...
Adventures in making
Martín Villalba
There is a recurring joke about how the longer you work as a programmer, the stronger the urge to quit the industry and go live in a farm. I'm not at that point yet but I do have a soft spot for making physical things with my own two hands that, no matter how crooked, I can hold proudly and say "I...