Build Your Own X

The tutorials listed here can vary a <i>lot</i> in quality. For the text editor section for example, there is a very good tutorial in C which guides its reader through the development of a kilo-like text editor with buffer management and everything, and next to that a YouTube video claiming to teach how to build a text editor in Python but is actually a (poorly coded) simple GUI using the text editor component of the Tkinter library. Well, it can serve as a Tkinter tutorial, but not as a &quot;build your own text editor&quot; one.

I&#x27;d like to see the following added:<p>*Build your own firmware&#x2F;bootloader<p>*Build your own FPGA&#x2F;ASIC<p>*Build your own sound library&#x2F;engine&#x2F;driver<p>*Build your own GUI Toolkit&#x2F;graphics library<p>*Build your own font (vector and bitmap)<p>*Build your own character encoding standard (à la ASCII, Unicode, etc.)<p>*Build your own MMO<p>*Build your own protocols<p>*Build your own mouse<p>*Build your own keyboard<p>*Build your own mail client and server<p>*Build your own VoIP client (à la Discord, Skype, etc.)<p>*Build your own instant messenger ( à la IRC, AOL, etc.)<p>*Build your own programming language<p>*Build your own markup&#x2F;typesetting language<p>*Build your own compiler, interpreter and assembler<p>*Build your own machine code &amp; microcode<p>*Build your own filesystem<p>*Build your own softmodem<p>*Build your own SDR<p>*Build your own BBS<p>*Build your own painting application&#x2F;photo editor<p>*Build your own internet browser<p>*Build your own cryptography<p>*Build your own compression algorithms<p>*Build your own webcam and webcam client<p>*Build your own virtual voice assistant<p>*Build your own girlfriend ;)

Interesting, this page has been around for a while and did not used to belong to codecrafters.io. I guess they bought the original repo so it would redirect here? Or maybe the original author started codecrafters.io? Indication of change here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;codecrafters-io&#x2F;build-your-own-x&#x2F;commit&#x2F;604281c36b9f573baa6c8272e49defc1c43163bf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;codecrafters-io&#x2F;build-your-own-x&#x2F;commit&#x2F;6...</a> when the (non)copyright changed a week ago.<p>Here&#x27;s what I remember seeing (someone&#x27;s archive of it anyway): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Sevistuo&#x2F;https-github.com-danistefanovic-build-your-own-x" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Sevistuo&#x2F;https-github.com-danistefanovic-...</a>.

One advice: for any of these topics take a tutorial directed at language X and implement the solution in language Y. This will prevent you from mindlessly copying the code and will force you to understand what you are doing.

I thought it was explaining how to implement an X server.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zserge.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zserge.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;</a> has some good “build your own X” articles, including:<p>* a clone of React.js and Vue.js in &lt;1K bytes minified * a web-based code editor and office suite * a chess engine * a TCL interpreter * a two-step verification client * a simplified C compiler

Great list. You might also want to checkout this one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;practical-tutorials&#x2F;project-based-learning" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;practical-tutorials&#x2F;project-based-learnin...</a>

Surprised to see 2 of my blog posts on there. Both about building search engines. Oddly missing the posts that I would consider a lot better about the subject. Rather flattering though.

The title made me assume it was a reference to building your own x.org - alas! Nevertheless, a fascinating repository.

I remember The Great Code Club (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.greatcodeclub.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.greatcodeclub.com</a>), started by Marc-André Cournoyer. It was a wonderful idea and it provided me hours of fun and learning. If you are into this sort of thing, you will love it.

I thought this was about building your own X11. Which seems to be missing from the list.

Not sure it is off-topic or not, but I wonder what resources it would contain to help design a software with undo&#x2F;redo feature.

I added <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linuxfromscratch.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linuxfromscratch.org&#x2F;</a>

For half a second my brain thought this post was about writing your own X11 implementation. I admit, I was intrigued.

I was hoping to see &quot;build your own virtual terminal emulator&quot;. But alas! Anybody have a suggestion?

The idea is absolutely great... but the quality of the listed links&#x2F;resources fluctuate a lot.

I’ve had this list bookmarked for years and love referring back to it for ideas. It’s also one of the first things I send to new(er) programmers so they can make cool tangible stuff &amp; avoid tutorial burnout.

It&#x27;s quite sad that &quot;Build your own frontend framework&#x2F;library&quot; is just a bunch of &quot;Build your own React&quot; links...

This is really awesome. I love how it covers a lot of different topics.

Build your own subtractive|fm|additive|granular|etc synthesizer.

I was scrolling up and down the repo looking for what I assumed was the tutorial - how to build your own X-server, haha

If you follow a guide or conceptually learn how write X, and write your own version of GPL code, are you now free from copyright restrictions?

Looks like a lot of fun. Will try it out!

Dreaming of HN where 100% of entries are like this and 0% are propaganda and narrative steering.

What I want is &quot;Build your own X, but better&quot;.

Thank you, this will keep me entertained for months!

This thing is not really cool.<p>It&#x27;s much more! Kudos!

I love this but it needs more Rust :)