ditaa is a small command-line utility written in Java, that can convert diagrams drawn using ascii art ('drawings' that contain characters that resemble lines like | / - ), into proper bitmap graphics.
Fairly detailed description of a GPS receiver using 1-bit quantisation, down-conversion, despreading and tracking in an FPGA. The tracking loops are implemented in firmware on a custom Forth-based processor (in the same FPGA), the navigation solution is computed in a Raspberry π (http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3916).
It translates a subset of Common Lisp to Javascript
+ bignum arithmetic
- no SQRT, SIN, ATAN, FORMAT, APROPOS
- #x and #.r upset the reader
See also the author's blog http://davazp.net/2013/01/04/lisp-to-javascript.html
Watch the sun rise and set all over the world on this real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earth's patterns of sunlight and darkness. The clouds are updated every 3 hours with current weather satellite imagery. The site has also other interesting stuff such as hints for optimising web page load times, copies of Linux documents and manual pages and more.