Andrew Healey's Blog

Writing an interpreter from scratch.

Building a live dashboard with the help of a few hardware modules.

Picking the correct thread colors from embroidery hoop images.

Applying photo geolocation estimation to the game of GeoGuessr.

Building a technical demo to understand this blossoming area of technology.

Generating random but familiar text by building Markov chains from scratch.

People that inspire me the most (and that I steal from most regularly).

Exploring the computational complexity of chess.

Making a casual game more competitive and arguing with my friends about Elo systems.

Picking up Ink and giving back to the community.

Learning more about user data collection by writing my own analytics system.

The famous flocking simulation built with the Ebiten game library.

Building a replacement for JavaScript's random number generator.

Calculating the path between two countries with the least border crossings.

A quick look at polyfilling, along with with solutions for both environments.

Engineering tickets often end up meaning a lot.

Use Netlify serverless functions to let users add comments to a static website.

A prototype Raspberry Pi dashboard to save me talking to my smart assistant.

Writing code, working (almost) solo, and exploring remote-life during the UK lockdown.

Building a fun toy with my Raspberry Pi, Python, and Tweepy.

Discussing an amazing resource for those writing for developers.

Building a tool for users to analyze their work over time.

Migrating from Jekyll to Gatsby.

Writing JavaScript with a one character width restriction.

Using Canvas, Express, and a GitHub Action.

I'm really starting to enjoy Go.

Conway's Game of Life in Ebiten.

My most popular project yet!

Pairing for fun and profit.

A high-level overview of caching.

Prepping for the internet to happen.

Using character codes to hide in plain sight.

Making a small change to the Jekyll project.

A few tips that have really helped me.

The title is a lie I also show how to use SQLite.

Different ways to do one thing well.

It's fast but is it worth it?

A JavaScript webscraper for MDN.

Joining two of my favorite ecosystems together.

Breaking down the Boyer–Moore majority vote algorithm with examples in Python.

Bubblesort isn't everything.

Advice that I haven't seen elsewhere.

Attract and educate.

Let's learn how to pass data back and forth between languages.

Learning and building.

Using the DEV.to API with Node.

Crawling a website for missing resources using the Python standard library.

I love code golf and you should too!

Dust off your ternary expressions, we're going in.

The basics of building a Reddit bot that listens for phrases and replies to them.