Ryan Chartier

A blog about Games and the Philosophy of Computing.

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Intro to Minimal Web Design with Jekyll

May 16, 2025 • Ryan Chartier

Minimal computing isn't an aesthetic; it's a way of thinking about technology. This year I had the pleasure of returning to DH@Guelph as a teacher instead of a student.

Just What do they See?

Aug 30, 2024 • Ryan Chartier

Back in 2013, I was hired by Tapor.ca (under the University of Alberta) to help write reviews for the website. I wrote a couple of them, but what I really wanted to do was make visualizations. The research group I was a part of had access to a couple of...

A Visualization of Chopsticks

Aug 20, 2024 • Ryan Chartier

Shortly after graduating from high school, I spent a couple of summers working at various children’s summer camps. There was plenty of downtime in between scheduled activities, and no shortage of simple games that groups of kids and staff could engage in to fill time. Most of these games, like...

3D Modeling at DH @ Guelph

May 20, 2024 • Ryan Chartier

I recently took part in the 3D Modeling workshop as part of the DH @ Guelph summer workshops.

Warc Extractor

Jun 28, 2022 • Ryan Chartier

The most popular thing I have ever built is my warc-extractor. I built it while working on a university project that was effectively pulling various datasets from the internet (twitter, internet archive, conventional scrapping etc) and experimenting with various ways to visualize this data. As it was a university project...

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