title: Awesome DIY Software

awesome-diy-software

A curated list of awesome DIY software. Inspired by awesome-go and this HN post.

What awesome-diy-software has in common:

• Describe a technology or feature by implementation.
• Ideally in no more than few thousands lines of code (and not just 10-20 line code snippets).
• Idea is to teach about underlying technology by a hands-on project, which is not overwhelming like trying to implement full-feature game engine and yet captures the essence of technology.
• All have the "Weekend Projects" feel

Compilers

• The Super Tiny Compiler
• Let's Build a Compiler

Cryptocurrency

• Nativecoin - build your own crypto-currency

Game Development

• Unity's roll-a-ball tutorial pretty good for starting out with their IDE and also gives some decent exposure to C# basics.

Interpreters: Lisp Based

• Write You a Scheme Haskell to write a Scheme!
• Build Your Own Lisp
• Scheme from Scratch
• Make a LISP
• Writing an Interpreter in Go

Image Processing and Computer Vision

• Build a Kick-Ass Mobile Document

Interpreters: Other (Non - Lisp)

There is a separate section, for lisp interpreters

• Crafting Interpreters
• Create your own programming language

Java Virtual Machine

• Simple.vm

Laravel

• Writing a full-featured multi-tenant Laravel app from scratch
• Let's Build A Forum with Laravel and TDD

Operating Systems

• nand2tetris
• Containers in 500 lines
• Malloc tutorial
• Bitwise - An educational project to create a software/hardware stack for a computer from scratch.
• Baby's First Garbage Collector
• A TDD approach for building a simple microprocessor model in Python
• Linux From Scratch

Regular Expressions

• A Regular Expression Matcher

Retracers and 3D Rendering

• Build your own 3D renderer
• Ray Tracing in One Weekend

Software renderer

• learn how the principles of computer rendering work

Storage and Databases

• Build a simple database
• Implementing a Key-Value Store
• Build your own Redis

Text Editor

• Kilo: Build Your Own Text Editor

Version Control

• Implements the basics of the git version control system

Web Apps: Usage

These are tutorials for learning to use web frameworks:

• Some useful links for React.js
• How to Build Tinder with React Native & Expo
• Writing a full-featured multi-tenant web app from scratch

Web frameworks: Internals

These tutorials are geared towards building a frontend web framework and can be used to get a better understanding of internals.

• Build your own React
• Build Yourself a Redux
• Build Your Own Angular JS

Web Programming

• Building a basic HTTP server from scratch in Python

Unsorted

PRs to organize these resources are very welcome!

• Handmade Hero
• Build your own Sinatra
• Destroy All Software's "From Scratch" series
• Building an online marketplace from scratch
• Build a game with Lua and LÖVE
• Let's Make a Voxel Engine

Other similar lists

• 500 Lines or less Book with many small tutorials covering a wide range of topics
• Project Based Learning