Alan Perlis was a computer scientist known for being the first recipient of the Turing Award and for his contributions to the ALGOL and APL languages.

Among his other work, he published a series of epigrams in 1982 about computers and programming that have since been widely quoted. I like these quotes for being humorous and sometimes hiding nuggets of wisdom, so I had the idea of making a website and API that puts them prominently on display.

This project was also just an excuse for myself to try out some new tools like Fly.io and using AI code editing tools to build frontends with React (so far my opinion with the latter is that it's helpful, but it still requires a lot of hand holding).