Code me if you can

Published on 2023-11-19. Tagged with projects.

Some time ago, I started writing down ideas I could implement for fun. Here are a few projects to spend those long, autumn nights on:

• write a Hack computer emulator

  • inspired by a book The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles.
  • start from NAND gate
  • end with a Pong running on the system

• solve a maze by pouring liquid

  • implement simple 2d liquid physics
  • optimize, optimize, optimize
  • make simulation look nice

• implement an ultraprivate chat webapp

  • use end to end encryption

• implement a chess agent using less than 1024 tokens and maximum 256 MB of memory

  • inspired by Sebastian Lague challange
  • write a few agents and let them play

• implement a simple dlna server serving movies to TV

  • reverse-engineer existing solutions using wireshark
  • use as little documentation as possible
  • try not to read any source code

• write a raytracer using DXR

  • inspired by Ray Tracing in One Weekend

• implement malloc

  • compare it with other popular implementations

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