Landing on the Red Puzzle
Using our Python API for NASA s Mars images to piece together collages, panoramas, and colored images of what Perseverance sees on the red planet.
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Cryptopals Set 4
Set 4 of cryptopals! We are warned that people drop out after this set so let’s make the most of it.
Lessons learned along “The Way”
The Way is a command-line application to manage code snippets written in Rust. It supports fuzzy search, customizable syntax highlighting, tagging, and copying to clipboard. Here are some things I learned while making The Way, about Git, Travis, and publishing an application.
(Un)natural Illustrations
A weekend project to generate some old-style hand-drawn illustrations with StyleGAN and transfer learning
The Astrochelys Theme
A not-your-everyday org-mode file that tangles out into a complete Pelican theme. Written by people with not a lot of CSS / HTML know-how.
Bilingual drills
Automatically making language flash-cards for org-drill using a bilingual corpus from manythings.org
An Annotated Spacemacs
An annotated and opinionated .spacemacs configuration file with just the stuff I actually use day to day.
Amping up the single analog input of ESP8266 to 16
Micropython + multiplexer = more analog inputs for our ESP8266
All-in-one Watercolor Palette
a 3D-printed customizable watercolor palette
Cryptopals Set 3
Finally, the 3rd installment of notes for the Cryptopals crypto challenges. It’s still incomplete but it’s been lying around for ages and I guess I can always come back and edit it.
Assembling a 3D Printer
Some assembly and testing notes for the Creality Ender 3 Pro 3D printer
Cellular Automata
Fiddling around with floating point cellular automata to make intricate patterns.
L298N with ESP8266
As you can see, the title is about the hardware, because that’s what defines what you are capable of in the physical world. It lets you imagine what you can achieve mechanically. However, the main focus of this post is instead about gluing components together to actually make them …
A Rust Blue-Pill Setup
Setting up a Rust-based environment for programming a blue-pill board
quoth
Making a CLI tool in Rust with all the best crates.
RTTTL Music
8-bit music makes a comeback!
Cryptopals Set 2
Continuing the cryptopals crypto challenges with Set 2. Don’t read this unless you’re absolutely sure you don’t want to try them out yourself.
Cryptopals Set 1
We recently started working on the cryptopals crypto challenges in Python 3, coming in with zero cryptography knowledge. Here are some notes on our thought process while solving Set 1, along with our solutions. Don’t read this if you want to try them out too.