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NostraDavid's Projects

13 projects, newest first.

2026

  1. Jargon Files

    Search and browse the Jargon File 4.4.7 online, with random entries and a scrollable lexicon.

  2. Morton Skulls

    A world map of Morton's skull groups using geocoded locations from the PLOS Biology supplementary tables.

  3. World Population

    Country-by-country population data scraped from Worldometer into a chart-ready JSON file.

  4. Dutch Summer/Winter Time Simulation

    Interactive simulation of Dutch time-zone choices: UTC, permanent winter time, and daylight saving time.

2025

  1. Inventing on Principle Notebook

    A live visual notebook inspired by Bret Victor: edit code, drag numeric literals, pick hex colors, and inspect the link between code and drawing.

  2. Queueing System Simulation

    Interactive finite-capacity queue simulation with configurable servers, warm-up, measurement windows, and live history.

  3. Warcraft Game Loop

    An interactive graph view of Warcraft-style gameplay loops such as leveling, economy, social play, and exploration.

  4. Epoch Time Converter

    Convert epoch seconds, milliseconds, and nanoseconds to RFC3339 and ISO8601 timestamps.

  5. Regex to NFA/DFA Visualizer

    A tool for visualizing the conversion from regular expressions to NFA and DFA automata.

2021

  1. NostraDavid's Warcraft Credit Visualizer

    Compare the credits of two Warcraft games and see who worked on both, which roles they held, and how those overlaps connect.

2020

  1. Fenêtres

    Interactive cube simulation inspired by Bali Balo's Fenêtres CodePen.

  2. Playground

    Context and small interactive demos collected from the projects archive.

  3. Maze Solver

    Canvas-based maze solver inspired by JonPizza's recursive solver.