Nathan Varner

I made this map because I kept getting lost at school. Every now and then, I go in and make a few improvements. Unfortunately, it may have seen my last significant update because school is closed for the pandemic, making testing hard and significant data collection impossible. Source

This website is, ultimately, not useful for very many things, but, in the case that you need it, this project is ready to take any URL and turn it into a much longer, needlessly verbose URL with an excessively long wait to be redirected. It was not created to fill the underexplored niche opposite that of a URL shortener, a particularly common service that is already executed quite well by a large number of boringly concise websites. Using Make a URL Longer has several advantages, including making your URLs look less reputable, padding the size of anything that includes inline links, and not falling victim to the pigeonhole principle, allowing it to always assign a longer URL than the one provided. Source

This is a simple nonsense essay generator. I wrote it during lunch for a very short hackathon at school in May 2019. Source

This compares the emissions impact of different things, like amount of ketchup eaten and kilowatt-hours of electricity generated from coal via Carbon Dioxide equivalent data. I made it for a 24-hour Hackathon, and there are a few bugs. Source

I made this site as part of a group biology project to find ways to lessen global warming. As a result, it's incomplete and has limited features compared to a potential full version. The idea is to search for recipes through the site, then view alternative ingredients that don't change the meal too much but may significantly reduce the Carbon Dioxide equivalent emissions of the meal. My groupmate and I presented the project in the form of a Shark Tank pitch. After the class voted on which product presented would be best to invest in, our project won out of the dozen or so competitors. Source

Inspired by a website with a similar name, users can type anything on their keyboard and have real code appear on their screen. It was designed to be part of a demonstration at a local elementary school's STEM Night. Source