Ethan Marks

Who I Am

I'm Ethan Marks. I'm a 15-year-old software developer. My work lives at the intersection of code, design, and curiosity. This is my corner of the web.

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What I Build

I enjoy writing software and automating things with code. I've been programming for the majority of my life, and I spend most of my free time working on my various projects, including the website you're on right now.

Featured Projects

A highly stylized watercolour-style image of a concrete walkway runs alongside a dense hedge of flowering bushes, all under a sleek red pergola.

ColourlessTransformer

A Streamlit interface for PaintTransformer, a neural network that approximates images using paint strokes

Thessa

An AI thesaurus built with Sveltekit powered by Cerebras

A screenshot of fphf being used in a terminal window against an abstract blue desktop wallaper. After running the command 'fphf', the terminal fills with status info as the process runs before eventually returning the string 'The SHA-256 hash of this sentence begins with b43c8b9.' and the hash 'b43c8b96f151033a566e148d45c43aa84ba153ff9407397f23d5eb43112bb5e1'

Fixed-Point Hash Finder

A tool that searches a cryptographic hash space for strings that contain part of their own SHA-256 hash

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What I Write

I write explorations of niche topics I care about more than is strictly reasonable: UTC's terrible design decisions, why truncated octahedrons make good maps, how hypercomputers create ethical dilemmas, and other things that don't come up in normal conversation.

Featured Posts

An unusual world map in a butterfly shape, showing the continents arranged in eight connected lobes

The Waterman Butterfly

An exploration of the Waterman Butterfly map projection

A metal sundial on a stone pedestal. On the outer circumference lie Roman numerals counting up to 24. On the inner circumference are ornate symbols. In the center is a sleek angled gnomon. The gnomon's shadow lies approximately halfway between the I and II.

A new measurement system

A proposal for a new measurement system based on Planck units

Gerardus Mercator's original 1569 world map

Mercator's World Map was useless

An essay about the many errors in Gerardus Mercator's 1569 world map

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Contact

Feel free to reach out! I'm always happy to chat. Whether you want to discuss a project, share an interesting idea, or just say hello, I'd love to hear from you.

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