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  • advent-of-code-2019

    My solutions for the Advent of Code 2019. (by michaelmelanson)

    The "Advent of Code" challenge in 2019 had several problems first one in day 2 where you end up writing a virtual machine for a simple bytecode. Here's my solutions to that year.

  • riscy

    A software implementation of a RISC-V computer

    At the start of the pandemic I dealt with the anxiety by writing a RISC-V emulator. This was definitely a very hard challenge, but it has the advantage of being a real instruction set that's well documented, with toolchains and test suites and other emulators you can compare yours against via cosimulation.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • risp

    A just-in-time compiled programming envionment (by michaelmelanson)

    You can also go the route of creating a programming language parser and interpreter, then a bytecode compiler and virtual machine. There's a recently-published book called Crafting Interpreters that walks you through that process. I've dabbled with variations of that a couple times in recent years (one, two, three).

  • shoppy

    A demo programming language

    You can also go the route of creating a programming language parser and interpreter, then a bytecode compiler and virtual machine. There's a recently-published book called Crafting Interpreters that walks you through that process. I've dabbled with variations of that a couple times in recent years (one, two, three).

  • liquidy

    You can also go the route of creating a programming language parser and interpreter, then a bytecode compiler and virtual machine. There's a recently-published book called Crafting Interpreters that walks you through that process. I've dabbled with variations of that a couple times in recent years (one, two, three).

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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