Tic Tac Toe with AI Logic and Glassmorphic Design

For Week 18 of Project52, I rebuilt Tic Tac Toe from the ground up, not as a basic JavaScript exercise, but as a design-forward, logic-rich browser game. The goal was to blend classic gameplay with modern frontend principles: responsive layout, intuitive state management, and AI-driven interaction. The final version supports both Player vs Player and Player vs Bot modes, with the bot intelligently blocking player wins. Visually, it features a polished glassmorphic interface, subtle animations, and color-coded feedback all contained within a single HTML file, no frameworks or libraries required.

NEON SERPENT - Reimagining the Snake Game in Glowing Retro Futurism

Neon Serpent is a fully reimagined version of the classic Snake game, crafted from scratch using only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in a single file.It blends retro nostalgia with futuristic aesthetics: glowing neon visuals, pulsing animations, mobile responsiveness, and particle effects all come together to create an immersive, arcade-inspired browser experience.

EvenSteven: How I Engineered a Private, Simple & Framework-Free Bill Splitter

EvenSteven is a fast, privacy-first web application that makes splitting expenses simple, fair, and visually seamless - without requiring any login, server, or external dependencies. Designed as a fully client-side single-page app, it handles everything from equal splits to complex custom contributions across multiple currencies. With a clean tab-based interface, smart settlement logic, and a responsive dark-theme UI, EvenSteven runs entirely in your browser, processes all data locally, and is optimized for both desktop and mobile (including one-handed mode). It’s a professional-grade tool built with pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript proving you don’t need a backend or a bloated framework to deliver a powerful user experience.

Building a World Clock with a Smart Meeting Planner for Remote Teams

Watching the Internet Talk: A Beginner’s Packet Sniffer in Python

In this project, I built a lightweight packet sniffer using Python and the Scapy library to capture and inspect live network traffic at the transport and network layers. The goal was to understand, from first principles, how data flows through a system when it connects to the internet. By parsing IP, TCP, UDP, and ICMP packets in real-time, the tool reveals exactly who your machine is talking to, over which ports and protocols, and at what stage of communication—handshake, data transfer, or teardown. It’s a raw, low-level window into the internet’s pulse, built entirely from scratch for educational exploration.

Writing a Minimal OS Loader That Boots into 32-Bit Mode

In this week’s Project52 build, I wrote a 512-byte boot sector that does far more than just boot — it switches the CPU into 32-bit Protected Mode, clears the screen, and prints a message without relying on BIOS or any operating system. This project builds directly on last week’s real-mode bootloader by going deeper into how modern systems actually start up. Instead of using BIOS interrupts like int 0x10, it sets up its own Global Descriptor Table (GDT), flips the protection bit in the CPU’s control register, and writes directly to VGA memory at 0xB8000. It’s a foundational leap from "printing in real mode" to "owning the machine in protected mode."

Writing a 512-Byte Boot Sector OS in x86 Assembly from Scratch

In Week 12 of Project52, I challenged myself to build an operating system from the most fundamental entry point possible: the boot sector. This 512-byte region at the start of a disk is the first code executed by the CPU after power-on, loaded directly into memory by the BIOS. Without relying on GRUB, Linux, or even a file system, I wrote hand-crafted x86 Assembly that runs in 16-bit real mode, interacts with BIOS interrupts, and produces output directly to the screen. This project was an exercise in minimalism, precision, and understanding the bare-metal mechanics of how all modern computing systems begin.

Building an End-to-End Frontend System for Color Creation: Palette Town

Palette Town is a frontend-only platform designed to generate, manage, visualize, and export color palettes with a strong emphasis on integrating user interface design and user experience architecture. Built entirely with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, the project explores both color theory-driven generation (analogous, complementary, monochromatic, pastel, dark tones, gradients) and the creation of interactive experiences such as dynamic mosaics, dark mode persistence, and real-time export options for developers.

Built an Emergence Simulator Using Conway’s Game of Life

For Week 10 of Project52, I built an interactive simulator based on Conway’s Game of Life, designed as a six-chapter experience to showcase how structured behaviors — like motion, repetition, reproduction, and even computation — can emerge from simple, rule-based systems. Instead of a freeform sandbox, this project guides users through curated scenarios that reveal key properties of emergent complexity, making it both a technical build and a visual storytelling tool for understanding how logic can evolve into lifelike behavior.

I Built QuickType — A Real-Time Typing Game That Lets You Race a Bot

Quicktype is a real-time typing game that lets users race against a simulated bot while tracking their typing speed and accuracy live. Designed with clean UI, responsive animations, and a lightweight stack (HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript), it features dynamic prompts, error tracking with visual indicators, and a local leaderboard that records your top performances.

DQN vs PPO: Which Reinforcement Learning Algorithm Lands Better?

Using OpenAI Gym’s LunarLander-v3 environment, I trained two AI agents from scratch: one using Deep Q-Networks (DQN), a value-based method that learns which actions lead to maximum reward, and the other using Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), a policy-gradient method that directly learns optimal behaviors. I tracked their learning curves, reward scores, fuel usage, and even visual behaviors to determine which agent could not only land but do so gracefully, efficiently, and reliably.

Building a Scalable Memory Game with Vanilla JavaScript

This week, I built a fully interactive Memory Game using only HTML, CSS, and Vanilla JavaScript — no libraries, no frameworks. Inspired by the classic card-matching game, the project features animated cards, themed levels, timed challenges, and a real-time scoring system.