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My Coding Adventures in 2025

2025-12-24T00:00:00Z

In this post, I return with a retrospective on my coding adventures, where I summarise my hobby projects and recreational programming activities from the current year. I did the last such retrospective in 2023. So I think this is a good time to do another retrospective.

At the outset, I should mention that I have done less hobby computing this year than in the past few, largely because I spent a substantial portion of my leisure time studying Galois theory and algebraic graph theory. In case you are wondering where I am learning these subjects from, the books are Galois Theory, 5th ed. by Ian Stewart and Algebraic Graph Theory by Godsil and Royle. Both are absolutely fascinating subjects and the two books I mentioned are quite good as well. I highly recommend them.

Now back to the coding adventures. Here they go:

MathB: The year began not with the release of a new project but with the opposite: discontinuing a project I had maintained for 13 years. MathB.in, a mathematics pastebin service, was discontinued early this year. This is a project I developed in 2012 for myself and my friends. Although a rather simple project, it was close to my heart, as I have many fond memories of exchanging mathematical puzzles and solutions with my friends using this service. Over time, the project grew quite popular on IRC networks, as well as in some schools and universities, where IRC users, learners and students used the service to share problems and solutions with one another, much as my friends and I had done in its early days.

I shut it down this year because I wanted to move on from the project. Before the shutdown, a kind member of the Archive Team worked with me to archive all posts from the now-defunct website. Although shutting down this service was a bittersweet event for me, I feel relieved that I no longer have to run a live service in my spare time. While this was a good hobby ten years ago, it no longer is. See my blog post MathB.in Is Shutting Down for more details on the reasons behind this decision. The source code of this project remains open source and available at github.com/susam/mathb.
QuickQWERTY: This is a touch-typing tutor that runs in a web browser. I originally developed it in 2008 for myself and my friends. While I learnt touch typing on an actual typewriter as a child, those lessons did not stick with me. Much later, while I was at university, I came across a Java applet-based touch-typing tutor that finally helped me learn touch typing properly. I disliked installing Java plugins in the web browser, which is why I later developed this project in plain HTML and JavaScript. This year, I carried out a major refactoring to collapse the entire project into a single standalone HTML file with no external dependencies. The source code has been greatly simplified as well.

When I was younger and more naive, inspired by the complexity and multiple layers of abstraction I saw in popular open source and professional projects, I tended to introduce similar abstractions and complexity into my personal projects. Over time, however, I began to appreciate simplicity. The new code for this project is smaller and simpler. I am quite happy with the end result. You can take a look at the code here: quickqwerty.html. If you want to use the typing tutor, go here: QuickQWERTY. Unfortunately, it does not support keyboard layouts other than QWERTY. When I originally developed this project, my view of the computing world was rather limited. I was not even aware that other keyboard layouts existed. You are, however, very welcome to fork the project and adapt the lessons for other layouts.
CFRS[]: This project was my first contribution to the quirky world of esolangs. CFRS[] is an extremely minimal drawing language consisting of only six simple commands: C, F, R, S, [ and ]. I developed it in 2023 and have since been maintaining it with occasional bug fixes. This year, I fixed an annoying bug that caused the drawing canvas to overflow on some mobile web browsers. A new demo also arrived from the community this year and has now been added to the community demo page. See Glimmering Galaxy for the new demo. If you want to play with CFRS[] now, visit CFRS[].
FXYT: This is another esolang project of mine. This too is a minimal drawing language, though not as minimal as CFRS[]. Instead, it is a stack-based, postfix canvas colouring language with only 36 simple commands. The canvas overflow bug described in the previous entry affected this project as well. That has now been fixed. Further, by popular demand, the maximum allowed code length has been increased from 256 bytes to 1024 bytes. This means there is now more room for writing more complex FXYT programs. Additionally, the maximum code length for distributable demo links has been increased from 64 bytes to 256 bytes. This allows several more impressive demos to have their own distributable links. Visit FXYT to try it out now. See also the Community Demos to view some fascinating artwork created by the community.
Nerd Quiz: This is a new project I created a couple of months ago. It is a simple HTML tool that lets you test your nerdiness through short quizzes. Each question is drawn from my everyday moments of reading, writing, thinking, learning and exploring. The project is meant to serve as a repository of interesting facts I come across in daily life, captured in the form of quiz questions. Go here to try it out: Nerd Quiz. I hope you will enjoy these little bits of knowledge as much as I enjoyed discovering them.
Prime Number Grid Explorer: This is a simple prime number grid visualiser I wrote for fun. It plots the prime numbers in a grid where you can set the number of rows and the number of columns. It uses the Miller-Rabin primality test with bases drawn from oeis.org/A014233 to determine whether a number is prime. This allows it to accurately test whether a number is prime up to 3317044064679887385961980. For example, this grid shows the upper limit of the numbers this tool can check. The three circles displayed there represent the prime numbers 3317044064679887385961783, 3317044064679887385961801 and 3317044064679887385961813.
Mark V. Shaney Junior: Finally, I have my own Markov gibberish generator. Always wanted to have one. The project is inspired by the legendary Usenet bot named Mark V. Shaney that used to post messages to various newsgroups in the 1980s. My Markov chain program is written in about 30 lines of Python. I ran it on my 24 years of blog posts consisting of over 200 posts and about 200,000 words and it generated some pretty interesting gibberish. See my blog post Fed 24 Years of My Posts to Markov Model to see the examples.
Elliptical Python Programming: If the previous item was not silly enough, this one surely is. Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post describing the fine art of Python programming using copious amounts of ellipses. I will not discuss it further here to avoid spoilers. I'll just say that any day I'm able to do something pointless, whimsical and fun with computers is a good day for me. And it was a good day when I wrote this post. Please visit the link above to read the post. I hope you find it fun.
Fizz Buzz with Cosines: Another silly post in which I explain how to compute the discrete Fourier transform of the Fizz Buzz sequence and derive a closed-form expression that can be used to print the sequence.
Fizz Buzz in CSS: Yet another Fizz Buzz implementation, this time using just four lines of CSS.

That wraps up my coding adventures for this year. There were fewer hobby projects than usual but I enjoyed spending more time learning new things and revisiting old ones. One long-running project came to an end, another was cleaned up and a few small new ideas appeared along the way. Looking forward to what the next year brings.

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My Coding Adventures in 2023

2023-12-23T00:00:00Z

In moments of leisure, I find myself immersed in crafting personal tools and exploring the joys of computer programming. Sometimes a few of these endeavors evolve into concrete utilities that I feel comfortable sharing with others under a free software licence. Below, I present some highlights and updates from this year's coding adventures:

Devil: This is a new Emacs package that intercepts and translates keystrokes to provide a modifier-free, non-modal editing experience. I wrote this directly in my ~/.emacs several years ago to avoid typing key chords. This tool allowed me to use comma (,) as the leader key for invoking key sequences involving ctrl and meta keys. I kept it private for a long time because I felt that the Emacs community may find some of the design decisions and the default choices to be outrageous. However, after extracting it into a separate package and sharing it on MELPA (and later on NonGNU ELPA too), I was pleasantly surprised by the warm and supportive feedback I received from many kind and generous community members. In fact, this package received several updates this year in order to address such feedback and enhancement requests as well as to integrate contributions from the community. This package has evolved a lot and become much better, thanks to the small and supportive community that formed around it.
CFRS[]: This is my first contribution to the quirky world of esolangs. CFRS[] is an extremely minimal drawing language consisting of only 6 simple commands: C, F, R, S, [ and ]. See demo.html for a collection of some nice demos submitted by the small community around this language.
FXYT: A tiny, stack-based, postfix, canvas colouring language with only 36 simple commands. This is one of my very recent creations. There is not much of a community around it yet. Nevertheless, I find it a lot of fun to play with. The README file at the preceding link has some interesting demos.
PC Face: This is a a collection of tools that I wrote early this year to generate bitmap arrays for rendering CP437 glyphs using free and open source fonts based on the IBM PC OEM fonts. The bitmaps are available in the form of JavaScript arrays and can be used quite easily to render glpyhs on an HTML5 Canvas. Additionally, this project offers a few Python and JavaScript functions to create similar bitmap arrays from other similar PC fonts and render them.
Andromeda Invaders: I wrote this game last year to fulfill my childhood dream of writing my own invaders-style game. This game received several updates this year around text rendering on canvas. In fact, it was the update for rendering text using IBM PC OEM fonts that led to the PC Face project mentioned in the previous point. The gameplay has been tweaked too to increase the difficulty level. Further, I wrote an autoplay algorithm for fun. This algorithm automatically moves the player to avoid falling boulders and hit the invader ships. To see the autoplay algorithm in action, visit invaders.html#auto.
NIMB: NIMB stands for NIMB IRC Matrix Bridge. Yes, a recursive acronym! ;) This is a simple relay client to bridge together different IRC channels and Matrix rooms. Growing dissatisfied with how the official bridge from Matrix assumed admin power level in a bridged room, removed idle users, etc., I wrote this as a small and simple tool for bridging my channels and rooms. Later when Matrix announced that they would shut down their official bridge, it had almost no impact on me because I had already switched over from their official bridge to this little tool for my bridging needs.
Clog: This is a tiny IRC chat logger written in Python. I use it to keep a local archive of the chats of some of my favourite IRC channels. This is perhaps my smallest personal tool. I have shared it at the preceding link in case anyone finds it useful but as far as I know, I am the only who uses this.
Emacs4CL: This is an old project that was first released in 2020. It provides a quick-starter-kit to set up Emacs for Common Lisp programming. It received a minor update to ensure that it works well with the latest version of Paredit. Apart from that, by popular demand, it leaves the menu bar enabled. Yes, the menu bar used to be disabled earlier which later turned out to be misguided. After receiving several suggestions about how the menu bar is essential for discovery of new commands relevant to the current major mode, the menu bar is enabled now.
Emfy: This too is another Emacs quick-starter-kit. However this one is meant to set up a general purpose editing and programming environment with Emacs. It was first released in 2021. It received one minor update this year. The variable require-final-newline is now set to t, so that files with newlines missing at the end are automatically updated with a trailing newline while saving them. Further, the colour scheme of incremental search matches has been updated to have more contrast so that the matches are easier to spot and navigate through.

As I reflect on this year's coding adventures, I am reminded of the beauty of exploration and creativity in coding. The support and feedback I have received from the small yet friendly communities around some of these projects has been truly heartening. Here's to another year of solving problems with code, collaboration and the boundless world of possibilities that computer programming offers!

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Web Golden

2022-01-30T00:00:00Z

In a recent online discussion about simple static websites, Chris Chapman posted this quite clever comment:

Firm supporter of Web Pi (3.14159). When it comes to building for the web today, I'm always amazed that "so much can be done with so little" and yet the default is the opposite - "so much is needed to deliver so little" - so irrational! Where did we go wrong? I wonder what Web Euler (2.71828) would have looked like?

I enjoyed the amusing play on the terms "Web 2.0" and "Web 3.0" as well as the irony-infused pun involving the word "irrational". I piled on to the witty wordplay with my own comment where I remarked how my favourite phase of the web was Web Golden (1.61803). I will elaborate here what that phase of the web looked like and why I was fond of it.

Fascinating Realisation

I believe I was fortunate enough to grow up during a time when the web was a very diverse place full of various eccentric digital gardens. I was introduced to the world wide web around 1999. Access to the Internet was very limited where I lived. My friends and I would visit so-called Internet cafés and shell out a significant chunk of our pocket money for just an hour of Internet usage.

I was already quite familiar with computers then but the Internet and the world wide web were completely new to me. Until then, thanks to my prior exposure to the Logo programming language, I had only considered computers to be a device for problem solving and recreation. However, the Internet showed me that computers were very flexible and malleable communication devices too. It was a fascinating realisation!

While on the Internet, I used to spend most of my time browsing websites and joining various chat forums where I could talk to other programmers from all over the world. I learnt a lot about the world and its various cultures by talking to them. I met people who wrote their own full blown chat clients, people who were nearing retirement after having programmed about twenty different microcontrollers throughout their careers, people who developed software for global positioning systems and so on. These experiences broadened my horizons. I could see that my enthusiasm for computers could one day lead to a fulfilling career.

Simplicity

The world wide web was a delightful place. There were no major social media websites yet. I believe the closest thing to social media we had back then was Geocities.com where we could create our own websites for free. One could also host their websites on shared website hosting providers for a fixed annual fee. Some also hosted their websites on servers running in their own houses.

Most websites were made up of static HTML pages. Some websites had tiny guestbooks that allowed a little user-generated content. I remember some of the website hosting providers made it really easy to add guestbooks, even for someone with no programming experience. All one needed to do was create an HTML page that contained a <form> element with the action attribute set to a URL of a CGI script provided by the hosting provider. The CGI script would accept every comment submitted via the guestbook and automatically insert the new comment into a static HTML page. The good scripts would escape the special characters in the comments properly before saving it in the static comments page. But the poor ones would let any script kiddie deface the guestbook page by inserting cleverly crafted HTML snippets or JavaScript code within the comments. That would be the first lesson on cross-site scripting for many of us in those days.

While most personal websites were static in nature, the motivated web developers would teach themselves enough programming to add little pieces of dynamic functionality by writing CGI scripts. Many used PHP instead which was much easier to write code in and deploy. I taught myself ASP to develop dynamic pages. It allowed me to write my own guestbook page and a dynamic quiz application for the visitors of my website.

Despite various types of dynamic functionality offered by the websites, the web was simple. Web pages with infinite scrolling was unheard of. Visiting useful websites did not result in the web browser loading dozens of massive JavaScript files in the background. Web developers were used to doing less with less. But the old web had its own problems too. Just like how the current web is riddled with banner advertisements, the old web too was riddled with pop-ups! A prevalent user-hostile trend back then involved web pages creating new pop-ups for advertisements. They would often clutter the desktop because the major web browsers back then would create a new desktop-level window for each popup.

Nostalgia

Although these old, simple and crude websites can still be found in certain corners of the web, the mainstream web no longer looks like this. Websites are generally heavier and more complex these days. Talking about the old web today only serves as nostalgia for people like me who grew up during that magical time. One might argue that the world wide web today is much more advanced and has much more utility than the old web I am reminiscing about here. That is true. The web today is a very versatile tool of great utility. The web today is a powerful agent that is shaping our civilisation and influencing how societies evolve and function. Indeed, the web was quite limited in terms of utility back then. Online banking was not prevalent. Electronic commerce was very new and clunky. The most practical utility of the old web I can recall involved publishing and retrieving university exam results and even that was painfully slow. It would take a minute or two for university pages to load over dial-up connections.

However, what the web of the 90s lacked in terms of utility, it more than compensated by being a fertile ground for creativity. Thanks to the early web, many computer enthusiasts, including me, learnt to build their first few websites by writing one line of HTML at a time. To write a few lines of HTML code in a text editor and then watch the web browser render that code as a glorious web page full of colours, images and text was a magical feeling. I do think that was the golden era of the web. It was quirky and yet beautiful. It was limited and yet diverse. It was the sweet spot between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. It was Web 1.61803! It was Web Golden!

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Simplicity of IRC

2022-01-09T00:00:00Z

During discussions with my friends and colleagues, whenever the topic of chat protocols comes up, I often remark how simple the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol is and how this simplicity has fostered creativity in the lives of many young computer hobbyists growing up in the late 1990s and early 2000s. For many of us who were introduced to the Internet during that time, writing an IRC bot turned out to be one of our first few non-trivial hobby programming projects that involved network sockets, did something meaningful and served actual users.

Simplicity

The underlying payloads that IRC servers and clients exchange during an IRC session are quite simple to read manually and understand. While implementing IRC servers still involves significant work to keep track of users and channels as well as exchanging network state and messages between servers, implementing IRC clients can often be quite simple. With a convenient programming language, one can develop all kinds of fun tools and bots pretty quickly. Only creativity is the limit!

In the early days of IRC, it was quite common for someone with basic programming skills to write a simple IRC bot within a matter of hours. Such IRC bots typically responded to requests from users, answered frequently asked questions, hosted trivia quiz, etc. The simplicity of the protocol made it very enticing to write programs that could talk to IRC servers directly. In fact, many people chose to write the code to parse and create IRC payloads from scratch. Observing the TCP/IP packets with a packet analyser such as Wireshark or Tcpdump was all one needed to learn about the various payload formats. Additionally, back then RFC 1459 served as a good reference to learn the IRC specification.

As a result of the simplicity of the IRC protocol, sometimes when I wanted to join an IRC channel, say to seek some technical help, from a system without an IRC client installed, I would often just start a telnet, nc or openssl connection directly to my favourite IRC network and type out IRC protocol commands by hand to join channels and talk to users.

Session

To illustrate how simple the IRC protocol is, here is an example of a minimal IRC session that involves joining a channel and posting a message:

$ nc irc.libera.chat 6667
:strontium.libera.chat NOTICE * :*** Checking Ident
:strontium.libera.chat NOTICE * :*** Looking up your hostname...
:strontium.libera.chat NOTICE * :*** Couldn't look up your hostname
:strontium.libera.chat NOTICE * :*** No Ident response
NICK humpty
USER humpty humpty irc.libera.chat :Humpty Dumpty
:strontium.libera.chat 001 humpty :Welcome to the Libera.Chat Internet Relay Chat Network humpty
:strontium.libera.chat 002 humpty :Your host is strontium.libera.chat[204.225.96.123/6667], running version solanum-1.0-dev
:strontium.libera.chat 003 humpty :This server was created Sat Oct 30 2021 at 17:56:22 UTC
:strontium.libera.chat 004 humpty strontium.libera.chat solanum-1.0-dev DGQRSZaghilopsuwz CFILMPQSTbcefgijklmnopqrstuvz bkloveqjfI
:strontium.libera.chat 005 humpty MONITOR=100 CALLERID=g WHOX FNC ETRACE KNOCK SAFELIST ELIST=CMNTU CHANTYPES=# EXCEPTS INVEX CHANMODES=eIbq,k,flj,CFLMPQSTcgimnprstuz :are supported by this server
:strontium.libera.chat 005 humpty CHANLIMIT=#:250 PREFIX=(ov)@+ MAXLIST=bqeI:100 MODES=4 NETWORK=Libera.Chat STATUSMSG=@+ CASEMAPPING=rfc1459 NICKLEN=16 MAXNICKLEN=16 CHANNELLEN=50 TOPICLEN=390 DEAF=D :are supported by this server
:strontium.libera.chat 005 humpty TARGMAX=NAMES:1,LIST:1,KICK:1,WHOIS:1,PRIVMSG:4,NOTICE:4,ACCEPT:,MONITOR: EXTBAN=$,ajrxz :are supported by this server
:strontium.libera.chat 251 humpty :There are 66 users and 48644 invisible on 25 servers
:strontium.libera.chat 252 humpty 35 :IRC Operators online
:strontium.libera.chat 253 humpty 11 :unknown connection(s)
:strontium.libera.chat 254 humpty 21561 :channels formed
:strontium.libera.chat 255 humpty :I have 3117 clients and 1 servers
:strontium.libera.chat 265 humpty 3117 4559 :Current local users 3117, max 4559
:strontium.libera.chat 266 humpty 48710 50463 :Current global users 48710, max 50463
:strontium.libera.chat 250 humpty :Highest connection count: 4560 (4559 clients) (301752 connections received)
:strontium.libera.chat 375 humpty :- strontium.libera.chat Message of the Day -
:strontium.libera.chat 372 humpty :- Welcome to Libera Chat, the IRC network for
:strontium.libera.chat 372 humpty :- free & open-source software and peer directed projects.
:strontium.libera.chat 372 humpty :-
:strontium.libera.chat 372 humpty :- Use of Libera Chat is governed by our network policies.
:strontium.libera.chat 372 humpty :-
:strontium.libera.chat 372 humpty :- To reduce network abuses we perform open proxy checks
:strontium.libera.chat 372 humpty :- on hosts at connection time.
:strontium.libera.chat 372 humpty :-
:strontium.libera.chat 372 humpty :- Please visit us in #libera for questions and support.
:strontium.libera.chat 372 humpty :-
:strontium.libera.chat 372 humpty :- Website and documentation:  https://libera.chat
:strontium.libera.chat 372 humpty :- Webchat:                    https://web.libera.chat
:strontium.libera.chat 372 humpty :- Network policies:           https://libera.chat/policies
:strontium.libera.chat 372 humpty :- Email:                      support@libera.chat
:strontium.libera.chat 376 humpty :End of /MOTD command.
:humpty MODE humpty :+iw
JOIN #test
:humpty!~humpty@178.79.176.169 JOIN #test
:strontium.libera.chat 353 humpty = #test :humpty susam coolnickname ptl-tab edcragg
:strontium.libera.chat 366 humpty #test :End of /NAMES list.
PRIVMSG #test :Hello, World!
:susam!~susam@user/susam PRIVMSG #test :Hello, Humpty!
PART #test
:humpty!~humpty@178.79.176.169 PART #test
QUIT
:humpty!~humpty@178.79.176.169 QUIT :Client Quit
ERROR :Closing Link: 178.79.176.169 (Client Quit)

In the above session, the user connects to the Libera Chat network with the nickname humpty, joins a channel named #test and posts a message.

Note that the above session is not encrypted. By convention, IRC port 6667 is used for cleartext connections. A separate port, such as port 6697, is available for encrypted connections. Here is an example of an encrypted IRC session established with the OpenSSL command line tool:

$ openssl s_client -quiet -connect irc.libera.chat:6697 2> /dev/null
:strontium.libera.chat NOTICE * :*** Checking Ident
:strontium.libera.chat NOTICE * :*** Looking up your hostname...
:strontium.libera.chat NOTICE * :*** Couldn't look up your hostname
:strontium.libera.chat NOTICE * :*** No Ident response
NICK humpty
USER humpty humpty irc.libera.chat :Humpty Dumpty
:strontium.libera.chat 001 humpty :Welcome to the Libera.Chat Internet Relay Chat Network humpty
...

The ellipsis denotes lines omitted for the sake of brevity. The remainder of the session is quite similar to the first example in this post.

It is worth noting here that although the payload format of IRC protocol is quite simple, as one starts writing IRC clients, one would stumble upon several tiny details about the protocol that needs to be taken care of, e.g. authenticating to the network, responding to PING messages from the server to avoid ping timeouts, splitting messages into shorter messages so that the overall payload does not exceed the message length limit of 512 characters, etc. For a serious IRC client, relying on a suitable library that already solves these problems and implements the IRC specification accurately is of course going to be useful. But for a hobbyist who wants to understand the protocol and write some tools for fun, the textual nature of the IRC protocol and its simplicity offers a fertile ground for experimentation and creativity.

Join

In case you have never used IRC but this post has piqued your interest and you want to try it out, you probably don't want to be typing out IRC payloads by hand. You would want a good IRC client instead. Let me share some convenient ways to connect to the Libera Chat network. Say, you want to join the #python channel on Libera Chat network. Here are some ways to do it:

Join via web interface: web.libera.chat/#python.
Join using Irssi: On macOS, run brew install irssi to install it. On Debian, Ubuntu or a Debian-based Linux system, run sudo apt-get install irssi. Then enter irssi -c irc.libera.chat to connect to Libera Chat. Then within Irssi, type /join #python.

There are numerous other ways to join IRC networks. There are GUI desktop clients, web browser plugins, Emacs plugins, web-based services, bouncers, etc. that let users connect to IRC networks in various ways. On Libera Chat, there are various channels for open source projects (#emacs, #linux, etc.), communities around specific subjects (##math, #physics, etc.), programming languages (#c, #c++, #commonlisp, etc.). Type the /join command followed by a space and the channel name to join a channel and start posting and reading messages there. It is also possible to search for channels by channel names. For example, on Libera Chat, to search for all channels with 'python' in its name, enter the IRC command: /msg alis list python.

Although I have used Libera Chat in the examples above, there are plenty of other IRC networks too such as EFNet, DALNet, OFTC, etc. Libera Chat happens to be one of the very popular and active networks for open source projects and topic based communities. I use it everyday, so I chose it for the examples here. There are many tight-knit communities on Libera Chat. Some of my favourite ones are #commonlisp, #emacs, #python, etc. All of these have very nice and active communities with great attitudes towards beginners.

My Code from 2020

2020-12-27T00:00:00Z

This is a brief retrospective of my free and open source work this year:

TeXMe: This is an old project that creates self-rendering Markdown + LaTeX documents. There were two new TeXMe releases last year. The new releases add support for the new and improved MathJax 3 and introduce a new pseudo-LaTeX Markdown priority environment. Version 1.0.0 will be coming up next year with more features.
Emacs4CL: A 35 line Emacs initialisation file to quickly set up vanilla Emacs for Common Lisp programming. It provides a good middle ground between configuring Emacs manually and installing a ready-made package like Portacle.
SPCSS: A distillation of writing CSS by hand for 20 years. I have picked the best pieces from my boilerplate stylesheets and shared it here.

That's it for now! See you next year!

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