ron kiehn dot dev

about me cs & philosophy @ uchicago. i do frontend, fullstack, and machine learning

contact me ronki@uchicago.edu or find me on github and linkedin.

programming i'm best at c, python, and javascript/typescript but i'm learning go, rust, and haskell.

tech stack frontend: react, svelte, astro, vanilla js, nextjs, c in wasm, and react native. backend: node, go, and flask. platforms: vercel, digitalocean, heroku, aws and gcp. databases: postgresql on supabase, and nosql on mongodb and firebase.

about this site this site is built with astro, jquery, react, tailwind, and threejs. to see the previous version of this site, visit /old. or view the source code here

cmd+e

React, Cloudflare Workers, Gemini API

Natural language event creation for gcal.

gptriver

HTML, CSS, JS, Flask, GPT-2

a flowing river of text generated by gpt-2. a testament to how far we've come.

Leetle

Svelte, Go, Docker, DigitalOcean

LeetCode meets Wordle - daily coding challenges. 1,000+ weekly active players.

twitter-aura2

Svelte, Node, Vercel, MongoDB

The viral twitter color palette analyzer. Over 500,000 profiles analyzed.

DAWand Blender

Python, PyTorch, Blender API

Add-on that runs 3DL's DAWand in Blender. Awaiting approval.

UChicago Course Feedback

HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Chrome extension that shows course feedback on UChicago's course catalog.

Cube-Web

C, JavaScript, WASM

The ASCII spinning cube is now in your browser with the power of WASM.

Sky Alerts (WIP)

React Native, Expo, Firebase, GCP

An app that sends alerts for astronomical events. Releasing later this year.

AI Review Consensus

JavaScript, Gemini API, Vercel

Chrome extension that writes an AI-generated review consensus on Goodreads.com.

Billion-Visualizer

Python, Matplotlib

A more concrete visualizer for @bddicken's language comparison project

Nootunez (WIP)

HTML/CSS/JS, Node.js, Spotify API, Heroku, Vercel, Firebase

Generate unique Spotify recommendations. Awaiting API extension for release.

Daily Aurelius

JavaScript, Python

Chrome extension that shows a new quote from Meditations every day.

Sexy Screen (WIP)

Python

An open source alternative to screen recording tools like ScreenStudio.

Haskell-Cube (WIP)

Haskell, Javascript

Recreating my Cube project in Haskell. Hoping to make a web version.

Cube

C, Python

Takes a simple ASCII cube and adds a ton of features.

Dune2Risk

Python, PyGame

Uncommon Hacks 2024 Best Game Winner. It's like Risk but Dune, made in Pygame.

PopPriceGuide Scraper

Python, Selenium, BeautifulSoup, re

A small web scraper for PopPriceGuide to find the price of a Funko Pop.