December 2013 Hack and Tell

From empty editor buffers came:

• A simple image uploader authored by Kai Hendry, so his parents can share photographs with less fuss.

• An Ansible module to deploy SSH configuration files, hand crafted by Björn Andersson.

• A toolchain to build a Kindle eBook of the Feynman Lectures, thanks to Patrick Haller, James Rivett-Carnac, Gwen Tan, and (to the smallest extent) I.

• Life, a tool to visualise a timeline of life events, by Lim Chee Aun. It may be enough to say over eighteen hundred people have forked his life so far.

• kopi.js; a parser for descriptions of Singapore coffee, in Coffeescript, with accompanying unit tests. So far this seems to have received major contributions from Chee Aun, Lakshan Perera, and Choon Kee Oh.

• scheme2llvm, from Melvin Zhang: a self-applicable LLVM front-end for a subset of Scheme.

• imap2json, also by Kai; this serves chosen IMAP directories through a web interface, so conversations can be referenced without in-MUA forwarding.

Also:

• Patrick Haller spoke on Ender’s Game and game design, which I believe has resulted in the formation of a meetup group to discuss principles thereof. See this thread for more details.

• James and Chinmay Pendharkar discussed plans for developing systems to moderate door access to the Hackerspace. Rahul and Shan are also involved with this.

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