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One more project from back in July. Inspired by one of his favorite resources Coolors.co, Simon created a beautiful color palette generator in p5.JS that builds off of a theme … Continue reading A Color Palette Generator in p5.JS
Amidst all the traveling in August, Simon was working on his first serious coding competition submission. Together with a friend from Australia, he was building a new programming language called … Continue reading ProLang: Simon’s first jam submission
Simon has made it into the #MegaFavNumbers playlist, organized by Cambridge’s James Grime for mathematicians on YouTube. Nearly 250 mathematicians (including StandUpMaths and 3Blue1Brown) have pitched in with videos about … Continue reading #MegaFavNumbers
After months is self-isolation, we spent the whole month of August away from home, first at our old home in Amsterdam, where we had some urgent personal matters to arrange, … Continue reading Amsterdam Friends and Color Jump
In July, Simon truly dove into server side programming, creating several more bots we’ve forgotten to blog about. He is now managing a whole bot playground on Discord where his … Continue reading Some more bots
Simon has set his first steps towards creating a 3D renderer. What’s a 3D renderer? 3D rendering is a process of converting 3D models into 2D images on a computer. … Continue reading Ray Marching
Simon has solved his first 4 kyu kata (programming assignment at a master programmer level) on CodeWars: Kata In our dojo, kata are real code challenges focused on improving skill … Continue reading Simon’s first 4 kyu kata solved! And a high competitive programming rank!
Picking up hiking keeps leading to beautiful conversations and thought experiments on the way. Yesterday, on our longest hike so far (over 8 km, partially in the sand), as we … Continue reading Singing bottles, negative kelvins and resolving Zeno’s paradox
Simon has built a question bot that will collect questions on The Coding Train Discord so that Daniel Shiffman can answer them during the following live session. This is something … Continue reading Question Bot
This is Simon’s contribution to #blacklivesmatter How Can Math Help Resolve Racial Segregation? This video and coding project is based on Segregation Solitaire by Thomas Schelling, an American mathematician and … Continue reading How Can Math Help Resolve Racial Segregation?
Simon has been pondering a lot about various ways to visualize or prove the quadratic formula. He eventually came up with a 4-meter-long quiz sheet, slowly revealing the logic behind … Continue reading The Grand Quadratic Formula Quiz!
If you’re interested in why #covid-19 tracing apps are important and the most privacy-friendly way to implement them, please read this interactive essay by Nicky Case and play with the colorful … Continue reading Simon’s remix of one of Nicky Case’s playable essays
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