In side-projects I like to play around with technologies that I'm interested in learning more about.
Minecraft Server
When one of my friends suggested we do something nostalgic, I didn't expect that they wanted to play Minecraft. I was even more surprised when I found a good place to run the server was in Oracle Cloud.
Chip-8
The Internet recommends the Chip-8 as a first emulation target because of its small instruction set, simple graphics and sound, and ease of getting something working. I tried this using Rust for my first project that was larger than an Advent of Code problem.
Pytest Pikachu
I wanted to understand the whole process of how a Python package is distributed. Building a pytest plugin seemed like a way to build something small but interesting enough to publish.
Flip Tiles
This was one of the first recreational programming projects I attempted after picking up JavaScript in 2014 using Codecademy. I wanted to make a simple game using JavaScript and CSS without any image assets.