some things i've done which i would describe as "cool" or "neat"
who killed rimaz?
2024
hosted an insane murder mystery party with friends by renting a venue, writing four puzzles, coding a detective dashboard w/ live voting, and buying $100 of dippin' dots
@umichaffirmations
2021 & 22
i anonymously created and ran a viral post-ironic maximalist college meme page. i grew it from 0 to 13k followers, donated $200 of merch profits, and hosted scavenger hunts + a snowball fight
who is @umichaffirmations?
march 22
for my admin reveal i forced students to solve 8 puzzles involving morse code, a piazza class, and wordle for $350 of prizes. 3,500 started the hunt but only 108 brave souls finished.
mc finer flame
forever
hear me rap about coding & covid, then later sing about my emotions. i produce in ableton and record in my closet.
shift creator space
2019-22
i co-led shift creator space, a special community of 30 people that encouraged creativity and making things you actually care about. helped w/ events, small discussions, showcases, and vibes
here is some semi serious personal projects i put together in college and before
weword
winter 2019
i used some websockets to build a crowdsourced writing game. anonymous internet users contributed 20,000 words until 4chan destroyed it.
generative art
winter 2021
i used p5 and threejs to code up some neat lookin generative art for fun. i also wrote a medium article about my progress and struggles.
chime menu
summer 2020
not the bank. i worked with a few people on a qr code menu startup. i led the frontend and built out 20 pages of react & redux. we got us a few hundred orders per week back in covid times.
rollout
never lol
failed peer to peer delivery startup. i built a bunch of react native screens that never got hooked up to a backend lol
ah yes, the golden days when i wrote thousands of lines of jquery. deep noah lore ahead, only for the brave.
multitaskilus
fall 2016
a lit game where you have fun by getting stressed. got a bunch of my friends to hate me for this one.
just go that way
2016
a game where you just go that way
particle simulation
fall 2018
i convinced my teacher to let me code up some electrons whizzing around so i didn't need to write an essay
sqar
2016
you are a blue box and you have to escape the red boxes. a game of strategy, wit, and cool shadows i spent 3 days on
odyssey games
2016
my teacher let me code a bunch of lit games instead of writing an essay about homer's odyssey. play them by mashing your keyboard.
jhumpa simulator
2016
another teach let me code a hype game instead of writing an essay. a psychoanalysis of author jhumpa lahiri where you play as her brain repressing emotions.
sqr
2015
the prequel of sqar. the first game that i coded. you are a blue box and you gotta see how long you can evade the red ones.
good job? you scrolled an entire 718px of literally no content.
as a reward, you found an easter egg! here is content.
"42069" by me. circa 2017jeez you are insane. but there's nothing here
you just scrolled 7898px, nice job?
you deserve a big reward this time.
here is my first website, unearthed from the deep archives. click at your own risk.
"NoahsCoolWebsite" by me. circa 2014