MeFi Projects

I've been working on Datasette, a Python application for exploring databases for a few years now. Today I released a new tool built on top of it: Datasette Lite, which runs the existing server-side Python application entirely in your browser, using a WebAssembly version of Python. [more inside]
posted by simonw on May 5, 2022 - 4 comments

Monolog is an interactive diary bot that prompts you with interesting questions, which it chooses based on the topics you write about. [more inside]
posted by TheMadStork on Dec 23, 2016 - 6 comments

I have started a new technical blog, where I will be documenting various projects I have worked on (typically involving code, though not always). [more inside]
posted by acb on Jul 10, 2013 - 0 comments

Reeborg's World, an adaptation of Karel the Robot, is designed to teach programming. At present, only Javascript is taught but a Python version is planned for the near future. By design, the progression is very slow but the aim is to cover almost all the basic features (and keywords) of Javascript using a Test-Driven Learning approach. Reeborg's World is free to use and does not require any login.
posted by aroberge on Jun 11, 2013 - 2 comments

Metropho.rs is a geographic metaphor map that plots "X is the Y of Z" tweets by putting the "Y" label on the "X" location. Some nice coverage by the Atlantic Cities blog here. [more inside]
posted by creade on Jan 5, 2013 - 3 comments

Spotmaps is an on-going project to map the colour footprints of different films. The website was designed to show off the completed image library. [more inside]
posted by urbanwhaleshark on Jan 1, 2013 - 2 comments