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Doom Fire Animation with PPM and mpv

Learn how to create a mesmerizing Doom Fire animation from scratch in C11, using only the PPM image format and mpv for display. This hands-on tutorial walks you through simulating classic pixel fire in a modern C environment, without any graphics libraries - just raw image output and a powerful video player.

Build Your Own RoyalRoad to EPUB Converter

Learn how to build a simple Python script that scrapes stories from RoyalRoad and converts them into EPUB files for offline reading. This beginner friendly project uses BeautifulSoup, requests, and EbookLib to walk you through a full pipeline from HTML scraping to ebook generation. A perfect start for anyone looking to automate something useful.

The Start of Something New

Let’s Reinvent the Wheel is all about learning by building from scratch. We’re starting with an empty GitHub and LeetCode profile, exploring backend, frontend, and interview prep. The goal is to recreate existing tools and ideas to truly understand how they work. No fixed roadmap — just hands-on projects that challenge and teach