Some good things
- An eminently playable DIY billiard table (December 2023)
- A take on oblique strategies, with apologies to Eno and Gautama (July 2023)
- An anagram unscrambler puzzle thingie: Easy Sevens (June 2023)
- Corpus of short story openings (August 2022)
- Phased retirement calculator (December 2021)
- Manu Dibango’s “Ça Va Chouia,” for brass band (August 2021)
- Space Rogue, Part the Second (July 2019)
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These things! I didn’t make ‘em but they’re pretty great, these things.
- Biocubes.net: Visualization and timeline of the Anthropocene.
- Train Braining: deceptively challenging game with a cushy retro aesthetic.
- Musical Time Machine: Play music by country and decade.
- LowTechLab: Ways of living, producing, and consuming that are inherently more sustainable than higher-tech solutions.
- UbuWeb: Hundreds of thousands of freely downloadable avant-garde artifacts.
- Blob Opera: Handel, in the key of A.I.
- Future Urban Climates map: 2080 climate forecasts mapped to the most similar climate in 2020.
- OpenAI Jukebox: A Generative Model for Audio: A.I.-created songs in the style of your favorite artist.
- Climate Prediction Center: US National Weather Service outlook for temperature and precipitation.
- The Fiscal Ship: put the federal budget on a sustainable course.
- “No Rules,” by Windows95man
- Age-adjusted running tables, by Rodney Pearson
- Reverse-engineered of Prince of Persia
Software
- Grammark. Grammark helps improve writing style & grammar and teaches students to self-edit. It finds things grammarians consider bad, highlights them, and suggests improvements. Writers can measure progress with a score based on problems per document length, updated when the writer fixes a problem. source code
- Gendered Text Project. The Gendered Text Project allows readers to change the gender of characters in short stories. Users can read selected texts already modified for this format or submit their own texts. source code
- CROW, the corpus & repository of writing. Crow brings together researchers at Purdue, Arizona, Michigan State, and other universities to create a web-based archive for research and professional development in applied linguistics and rhetoric & composition. source code
- Filipino Corpora Project The National Network of Normal Schools (3NS) Corpora Project is a database of texts in various languages, collected to preserve literature and language, analyze the structure of the studied languages, and classify texts according to comprehension level for use in mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTBMLE). source code
- Natural Language Processing Tools
- Waray language part of speech identifier: this algorithm uses morphology (prefixes, suffixes) and syntax (location in clause) to guess a word’s part of speech.
- Corpus Text Processor (Windows/MacOS application): convert various document formats to plaintext, standardize characters, remove PDF metadata.
- Lemmatizer (PHP): map words to word families.
- Lorem Gutenberg: generate English-language placeholder text for testing natural language processing.
- Tag Converter: convert corpus-specific metadata protocol to XML, PHP, or JSON.
- Stemmer (PHP): implementation of the Porter stemming algorithm
- Highlighter (PHP): API for highlighting words and phrases
- Drupal
- Module compatibility checker: Audit which modules your site uses are compatible with the next major version release of Drupal core.
- Issue Status Dashboard: Keep tabs on issues on drupal.org by specific issue or by project.
- Layout Builder Restrictions
- Responsive Tables Filter
- Porter Stemmer
- Feed Block
- Twitter Profile Widget
- Bootstrap Horizontal Tabs
- Basecamp API
- REST Feedback Endpoint
- Composer Dependency Tree
- Potpourri
- Scrabble vocab builder: Guess scrambled words that are valuable in Scrabble.
- Corpus of short story openings: examine the methodology of different short story writers.
- Records of records: Interface and API for displaying a filterable list of data using a Google Sheet as the datasource backend. source code
- Composer dependency tree generator: Input a
composer.jsonandcomposer.lockfile and see a collapsible tree of nested dependencies. Also available as a Drupal module. - Amazon Alexa “Doggo Me!” Skill: a glorified random text generator, written in Python.
- Space Rogue Part II: experiment in C++, with apologies to Paul Neurath. source code
Music
- Arrangements (Brass band, MuseScore file format)
- Recordings
- Pärt: Tribute to Caesar 2017
- Pezel: Galliarde 2016
- Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 2016
- Dowland: Semper Dowland, Semper Dolens (Pavan) 2016
- Ingegneri: “Tenebrae Factae Sunt” 2016
- Barber: Adagio for Strings (for Trumpet) 2015
- Verdi: Grand March from “Aida” 2015
- Wagner: Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin 2015
- Just a Closer Walk With Thee 2015
- When the Saints Go Marching In 2015
- Handel: Semele, HWV 58, “Where’er You Walk” 2015
- Albinoni: Sonata in A, Op. 6/11 - 1. Grave 2015
- Albinoni: Sonata in A, Op. 6/11 - 3. Andante 2015
- Albinoni: Sonata in A, Op. 6/11 - 4. Vivace 2015
- Simon & Garfunkel: Kathy’s Song 2015
- An Tamsi Ni Aldrick 2014
- Bedford to Graham 2014
- Greyhound Lure, Protagonist 2014
- Reposado 2014
- The Shift Geologic 2014
- Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 (BWV 1004): Allemanda 2013
- Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 (BWV 1004): Corrente 2013
- Charlier: Etude, #2: Du Style 2013
- Oh Holy Night 2013
- The First Noel 2013
- Infant Holy 2012
- Bayan Ko 2011
- Simon & Garfunkel: Bleecker Street 2010
- Vespers (Nick Courage) 2010
- Julia Kristeva Rap 2010
- Lay Your Couch Down 2010
- At the Hotel Chelsea (Take One) 2010
- My Love 2010
- Rebecca True & Charlie Kind 2010
- Beijing Huan Ying Ni 2010
- The Little Orphan Girl 2009
- Only Yours 2009