Projects
Hatchpad's showcase of unique projects our community is working on.


Tagnet: A Digital Drawer to Store Your Assets
Organizing your digital assets should be easy. Between bookmark managers, to-do lists, note-taking apps, and GitHub repositories, there’s definitely no shortage of options. But for me, nothing seemed to click and actually get used. These...



Exporting from Go to other environments like Python’s FFI.
We wanted to take a string masking/unmasking package that we’d written in Go for our backend systems, and use it on our data science team. To accomplish this, we needed to accomplish a couple of...


The Standard Notes Clipper: An Encrypted Notes App
The Standard Notes Clipper is a free, open-source, and completely encrypted notes app that I use for work and personal use. I absolutely love the app because it’s secure, customizable, and it works on web,...


Deconstructing Political Echo-Chambers with NLP Based Recommender Systems
Typically the goal of a recommender system is to serve users content they will like. They can be useful tools for showing users interesting products or new shows, but they can become extremely problematic in political...


Yellowbrick: Machine Learning Visualization
Yellowbrick is an open-source, pure Python project that wraps matplotlib and extends scikit-learn to create visual analysis and diagnostic tools for machine learning. Yellowbrick’s goal is to assist users in evaluating the performance, stability, and...





Grimoire: A Technical Blog
Grimoire is a new blogging platform built for technical blogging that allows writers to embed data, graphs, APIs (application programming interface), and more without any coding. Grimoire is powered by Streamlit which is an open-source...





Nookazon (Animal Crossing Marketplace)
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has surged in popularity during quarantine. While playing the game, Daniel Luu noticed the difficulty in making in-game trades. Most people were using Animal Crossing Discord chats to list and negotiate...



Q-Learning Tic-Tac-Toe, Briefly
Tic-tac-toe doesn’t call for reinforcement learning, except as an exercise or illustration. Recently, I saw several examples implementing Q-learning, all of which were rather long. I thought I’d give tic-tac-toe with Q-learning a try myself,...