Hi, I'm Lin. These are some of my writings and side projects.

Math visualizations

Burning ship fractal
explore the depths of an unusual fractal world
Cellular automata
emergent behaviors from simple computing rules
Mandelbrot set
the most famous fractal in mathematics
Julia set
one fractal for every complex number
Newton fractal
basins of attraction from Newton's method
Hausdorff dimension
an atlas of fractals ordered by dimension

Text terminals

Bash prompt generator—easily customize bash prompt colors
Zsh prompt generator—easily customize zsh prompt colors
SSH tunnels—example commands for securely forwarding TCP traffic
Xterm 256 colors—reference for using xterm color codes

Chess

Blitz tactics—for playing fast-paced chess puzzles
NNUE training data—for training top Stockfish neural networks

Thoughts

Before it's finished—deciding when to publish
Beginning to write—practice taking the first step

Misc pages

Tao Te Ching—ancient Chinese philosophy
Design principles—lists of foundational ideas in good design
Moon phases—tracking how the moon appears each day
Reversing myopia—notes from a long-term experiment in eyesight improvement
Top travel socks—versatile socks and materials for traveling
Drawing with LLMs—creating vector illustrations with language models
Past projects—a few mini games, mostly unmaintained pages

Traditional art

Elsewhere