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Manacher's Algorithm Visualizer

Step through Manacher's linear-time algorithm for finding the longest palindromic substring, with an interactive visualization of each phase.

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Sunrise & Sunset Comparison

Compare sunrise and sunset times across different cities throughout the year with interactive charts.

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Mortgage Calculator & ROI Projection

Project mortgage payments, equity buildup, and investment returns across different scenarios.

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Slotted Page Visualizer

Explore how B-Tree storage organizes cells within slotted pages, with interactive visualization of cell layouts, offset pointers, and free space management.

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Area Comparison

Compare demographic and statistical data across states, cities, and neighborhoods in California, New York, and Georgia.

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Margin Drawdown Calculator

Visualize how much you can borrow on margin without facing a margin call during market drawdowns, with historical crash scenarios.

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Big Tech Employment

Stacked bar chart showing employee headcount trends across major tech companies from 2011 to 2025.

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Python Kata Practice

Practice Python coding challenges with an in-browser editor and automated test validation, powered by Pyodide.

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Sliding Window Maximum Visualizer

Step through the monotonic deque approach to the sliding window maximum problem, with interactive visualization of each phase.

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Stages of Rome

Explore the five eras of Roman civilization from Kingdom to Byzantine Empire, with an interactive timeline, territorial maps, and historical summaries.

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Free Model Ranker

See which free models on OpenRouter are actually good, ranked by ArtificialAnalysis intelligence index.

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FDE Jobs

Compare Forward Deployed Engineer roles across prestigious smaller tech companies โ€” skills, role focus, target industry, and more.

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Mega Mergers by Presidential Term

The 10 largest US M&A deals announced during each presidential term from Clinton I through Trump II, sized as a share of US GDP for each deal's year.

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EUSA vs VTI vs VT

US equal-weighted vs US cap-weighted vs World cap-weighted ETFs over time โ€” AI concentration, drawdowns, and total return with selectable metric pairs.

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Biggest Tech IPOs vs S&P 500

Each year's biggest tech IPO from 1990–2025, sized as parts per million of the S&P 500's total market cap on the IPO date.

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Country Freedom

Filter the world's countries by compound percentile of government and economic freedom โ€” combining Freedom House, EIU, Heritage, and Fraser indices.

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exe.dev vs Hetzner vs AWS

Side-by-side cost comparison of exe.dev's Personal & Cloud Pool plans against Hetzner Cloud CCX and AWS EC2 m7a, matched 1-to-1 by vCPU and RAM, with a non-linear transfer slider.

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Firecracker: An Engineering Doc

A senior engineer's design doc for AWS's microVM monitor โ€” architecture, threat model, snapshots, and how it compares to QEMU, gVisor, and containers.

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vLLM: An Engineering Doc

A senior engineer's design doc for the open-source LLM inference engine โ€” PagedAttention, continuous batching, prefix caching, and the V1 rewrite.

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ClickHouse: An Engineering Doc

A senior engineer's design doc for the OLAP database โ€” parts and granules, vectorized SIMD execution, distributed two-stage aggregation, ClickHouse Cloud's SharedMergeTree, and how it compares to Snowflake, BigQuery, and Druid.

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Hypothesis: Property-Based Testing

A working Python developer's guide to property-based testing with Hypothesis โ€” strategies, the @given decorator, automatic shrinking to minimal counterexamples, stateful testing, and the properties worth asserting.