Posts tagged with Just For Fun
Building Super Truck Rally with AI
Inspired by all these one-shot games created by AI, I decided to give it a try. Turns out, getting something people enjoy takes many, many shots. This is how I built Super Truck Rally, inspired by one of my favorite arcade games, Off-Road.
Building a Perplexity Clone with 100 lines of code
AI search apps like Perplexity.ai are really cool. They use an LLM to answer your questions, but pull in real-time search results to augment the answer (eg RAG) and list citations. I wanted to know how it works and decided to build my own version. Getting it to work is surprisingly simple and...
Recreating my Site as a 90s Webpage
I revisited the look of early web design by recreating my home page with a 90s theme. Drawing inspiration from iconic sites like Space Jam, I incorporated classic elements such as gif badges, pixelated fonts, and dithered images to capture the era's distinct look.
The Wisdom of David Henke
A hero to the engineering and operations world, here’s a collection of some of David Henke’s greatest quotes and sayings like “you are only as good as your lieutenants” and “what part of 24/7 don’t you understand?”.
Fantasy football drafter GUI
Last football (fantasy) season, my league had a live draft. I didn’t want to do the old magazines, web printouts, highlighter, scratch paper, etc deal, so I decided to write a simple GUI that showed me the fantasy ranks from various online sports sites. Of course, once a player is removed, I ...
Burkard Keller Trees
Implemented the BK Tree the algorithm myself in Java and posted the result to google code