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Toyo: Chrome extension to email yourself links

Link: https://github.com/tamg/toyo What: If you are like me, you find yourself emailing yourself a lot of links to webpages, essentially using your gmail inbox as a todo/reading list. Toyo is an extension that allows you to do just that, with one click! First set your email and ...

RC week #5

A whole Week1 Week2 Week3 Week4 five weeks has passed since I began my programming journey at the Recurse Center! Ok. Here is what happened on the fifth week. Day 29 The whole day was spent thinking about how to spend the whole day. Until I saw a tweet. I thought the tweet was really ...

Jomnify: A Spotify playlist message maker

Demo: https://tamg.github.io/jomnify/ Github: https://github.com/tamg/jomnify/ What: Inspired by this tweet from Jomny Sun. Hence, the name Jomnify. Jomnify allows you to make a Spotify playlist message by searching for a sentence. Then each track's title contains a word from the sentence you searched and is highlighted in red. Which leads ...

RC week #4

A whole Week1 Week2 Week3 four weeks has passed since I began my programming journey at the Recurse Center! Ok. Here is what happened on the fourth week. Day 22 I started working on  a chrome extension. The idea I have so far is to make an extension that allows me to ...

Basics of a Chrome Extension

Basics: Chrome Extensions are essentially web pages and have access to all the APIs that the browser provides to web pages. Extensions allow you to add extra functionalities to your browser with diving into native code. The final Chrome Web Store deployable package is a .crx ...

Rem: Live video emojifier

Demo: https://tamg.github.io/rem/ Github: https://github.com/tamg/rem What: Rem is a silly/fun tool that takes your webcam video feed and redraws it on an HTML canvas using emojis as pixels! Why? I really like Sam Jacob's Emojipolis work and wanted to see if I can do something similar but with video. I used the p5js ...

RC week #3

A whole one two three weeks has passed since I began my programming journey at the Recurse Center! Before the start of RC, I had the goal of doing a new project every two weeks OR two blog posts a week. I decided to do this after talking to RC ...

List ADT: Data Structures & Algorithms in JavaScript P.1

I’m learning about data structures and algorithms in JavaScript. I'm using various online resources and going to be sharing my notes as a series of blog posts. The topics are below: Data Structures: List ADT | Linked Lists | Trees, Tries & Graphs | Stacks & ...

RC week #2

A whole one two weeks has passed since I began my programming journey at the Recurse Center! Day 8 This week my plan was to learn all I can about React/Redux. I have also started to watch a udemy course on Data Structures and Algorithm in ...

React: Rethinking best practices

I am learning about React and I found a talk given by Pete Hunt as one of the best “birds eye view” introduction to React(even though it’s from 2013). There is enormous amount of tutorials on React. However, a lot of them only explain the ...