DANNY YANG

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My Blog

Welcome to my blog! As you can see, I like to write about technical things (mainly programming languages, compilers, & data vis). RSS

Compilers/PL

Posts about programming languages and compilers


11 Oct 2022 - Chocopy Hacking Part 4: Compiling to WASM

03 Sep 2022 - Scratching the PL Itch

22 May 2022 - Chocopy Hacking Part 3: Compiling to CIL

26 Aug 2021 - Chocopy Hacking Part 2: Compiling to JVM

23 Jul 2020 - Guide to Writing Polyglot Compiler Extensions

15 Jul 2020 - My Experience Working With Polyglot (Extensible Compiler Framework)

29 May 2020 - Chocopy Hacking Part 1: Building a compiler frontend in Python

26 May 2019 - Reflections on Cornell's Undergrad Compilers Practicum (pt 2)

25 May 2019 - A Brief Explanation of Capture-Avoiding Substitution

19 Mar 2019 - Reflections on Cornell's Undergrad Compilers Practicum (pt 1)


Data Visualization/D3

Posts and tutorials about data visualization, usually with D3.js


23 Mar 2023 - Tufte in D3

07 Aug 2022 - D3.js Resources: Tutorials, Tools, and References

26 Nov 2020 - Elevation Contour Plots With D3

07 May 2020 - Building a Dashboard using Vega - Tutorial

02 Jan 2020 - Recreating the 5 Years of Drought Visualization

25 Aug 2019 - Mapping San Francisco Building Ages Using D3

24 Aug 2019 - Mapmaking with D3: Tips and Common Pitfalls

01 Mar 2019 - D3 Spider Chart Tutorial


Technical

Posts and essays about other technical subjects that I'm interested in


27 Dec 2022 - Advent of Code 2022 in Erlang

14 Sep 2022 - ReScript Tutorial: Learn ReScript in Y Minutes

09 Jul 2021 - Rewriting a Project in ReScript

14 Nov 2020 - Flaws of Essay Autograders

19 Sep 2020 - Limitations of Language Models

02 May 2020 - Building a Course Recommender System

11 Nov 2019 - Scrutinizing Datasets

03 May 2019 - How MOSS Works

28 Feb 2019 - How Perceptrons Work


Cooking

Recipes for my favorite foods + more. Want more yummy recipes? Check out Ryan Lu's blog.


16 Jul 2020 - [Recipe] Impossible Bolognese

17 Apr 2020 - [Recipe] Pan-Fried Pork Chops

20 Nov 2019 - [Recipe] Mapo Tofu

12 Nov 2019 - [Recipe] Pork Belly Noodles

27 Oct 2019 - [Recipe] Beef Bulgogi

26 Oct 2019 - [Recipe] Tomato and Egg


Misc

Anything that doesn't fit in the above categories


17 Apr 2020 - Folsom Biking Trails

14 Apr 2019 - A Week in Paris


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