My time at the Recurse Center

I spent 12 weeks at RC. I am most proud of the awesome people I met, and how I inspired I feel after having worked with them.

Here is a list of things I worked on:

• Hacked a rotary phone to automatically play chosen poems/jokes based on the number you dial, using a raspberry pi. The project was inspired by Dial-A-Poem. Demo: https://youtu.be/enE1PwRzfh4
• Implemented and deployed a web-server to handle uploading custom audio and URLs to the rotary phone
• Helped build/refactor an app that uses machine learning to detect illegal parking in NYC and automatically files service requests with the NYPD
• Click to ship
• Helped implement Q-learning and DQN on a handwritten Mancala game
• Built a real-time ASL detector that runs in the browser
• Helped implement a Rust program that runs a custom shader in WGPU
• Helped create a TooGoodToGo wrapper to display nearby results on the RCTV. Repo: https://github.com/joshestein/TooGoodToGo-RecurseTV
• Learned about nix and switched my OSX and dotfiles setup to nix-darwin and home-manager
• Learned about MRIs and created an interactive explorable using ThreeJS, HTML canvas and WebGL
• Implemented ProtoPNet
• Worked through a bunch of AI safety readings/discussions, finished BlueDot Impact's AI Safety Fundamentals course
• Fixed a problem in Flask-Moment that prevented strings being accepted as valid inputs. Relevant PR: https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/Flask-Moment/pull/94
• Spent some time trying to get Quickscope and Sneak to work nicely in IdeaVim, working on a PR to fix the issue
• Worked through several chapters of Crafting Interpreters, progress here
• Wrote a time-blocker app to learn Svelte
• Wrote a CLI tool to (start to) learn Rust
• Helped a friend making a real landline phone ring when you call via a raspberry pi
• Helped a friend design and build the initial circuitry for an interactive wearable glove
• Implemented Pong on the Rapid Riter, an LED matrix in the hub
• Upgraded and re-organised the community cluster
• Fixed the Thundertube, a home-made LED strip within the space
• Gave a non-programming talk on Hexaflexagons and Martin Gardner