Toby Lam
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  • Catan Probability Calculator

    See how likely it is to get any combinations of resources in Catan (and more)! Check it out here!

  • Read text nicely

  • Surface plotter that lets you sketch on surfaces

  • Stock Game

    Stock Game

    Trade stocks and make money! A javascript / much superior version to a game I made 7 years ago. Fond memories.

  • Font sizes from 4px to 99.9px

    Discuss on Hacker News

  • Complex function plotter

    You can check out the plotter at tobylam.xyz/plotter! For the more technically savvy, here’s the GitHub repo. A fork of mabotkin’s complex function plotter.

  • Calculator Programming

    Years ago when I was still in secondary school, mobile phones were not that popular yet and as such I was obsessed with programming my fx-50FHII which was the only mobile computing platform I had. I ended up trying to write up an introductory course on calculator programming. Fun times. Here’s the [pdf].

  • Compilation of miscellaneous tools

    Useful web tools I have found for maths. In descending order of how well known they are (approximately)

  • Effort vs Quality

    Across a wide range of technologies, there’s increasingly this tension between effort and quality. We want to minimize user effort and maximize quality of output, yet are we taking that too far?

  • Using Zoom / Google Meet with OBS

    Setting up a virtual webcam with OBS and Skype's built-in background filtering