Personal Site of Andrei N. Ciobanu - Links

A short analysis of Morse code through information efficiency.

Bonsai Builder is a small, relaxing browser game where you grow and shape your own bonsai tree.

A short story poking fun at academic abstraction and misplaced certainty.

ancient-greek.net is a personal, educational website dedicated to the Ancient Greek language and culture, offering resources like grammar notes, translations, vocabulary lists, articles, and (even) audio materials.

A reference on the bizarre ultra-dense matter structures thought to exist inside neutron stars.

The site is a playable online version of Colossal Cave Adventure, the classic 1970s text-based game widely considered the first interactive fiction.

A low-level performance exploration of mutex design and implementation.

Legend, lore, and human imagination.

614 problems, 168 solved.

A tour of text-processing techniques across classic command-line and editor tools.

An introductory guide aimed at students preparing for math competitions, presenting core inequality techniques along with examples and exercises.

A reflection on why the path into programming feels harder than it used to.

Animations since 2017.

A reference page on the philosophy and movement of effective altruism.

A minimalist browser game that starts with a single action in a dark room and gradually unfolds into something just a little more complex.

Welcome to ZORK.

A site devoted to out-of-print, overlooked, and forgotten books.

Bible stories retold entirely with Lego scenes.

The article argues that algorithm-heavy coding interviews are a poor proxy for real engineering ability.

A friendly classic on sockets, networking, and systems programming in C.

This library promises 1 million free books.

Collection of free technical books under free licenses.

A piece on the combinatorics, symbolism, and visual design of Genji-Ko patterns.

Draw any photo with a single line.

Book recommendation site.

Visual introduction to probability and statistics.

By outsourcing the effort to AI we risk producing more generic ideas and becoming 'boring' thinkers.

A notebook-style exploration of geometric drawing from a functional perspective.

Not exactly art, but it can be.

Open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine.

An accessible exposition of the beautiful geometry behind Napoleon's theorem.

A meme generator using medieval-looking cat imagery and captions.

A curated collection of programming-language theory and implementation resources.

smallweb.cc is a carefully curated collection of neat indie websites that get less attention than they deserve.

Mathematical underpinnings of reliable software.

Curated list of personal blogs.

A large archive of historical photographs.

Alan Perlis's famous list of witty one-liners about programming.

A programmer-friendly look at symbolic tricks for solving differential equations.

A piece on ownership structures and how they shape work and incentives.

Gallery of fractal patterns found while exploring the planet with Google Earth.

A “stacked clock” reimagines a traditional clock by linking its hands tip-to-tail, creating a chained visualization of time.

An esoteric programming language with a deliberately strange little ecosystem.

A project preserving and reimagining sounds from obsolete technologies and fading machinery.

Useless x86 trivia.

God's operating system.

Absurdly compressed retellings of movies in just a handful of lines.

A reference on the idea that a species can evolve domestication-like traits on its own.

Run operating systems in your browser.

Compile Verilog into Factorio circuits.