The most beautiful code I have ever see. It modifies itself to spin a world globe: http://aem1k.com/world/
@benofbrown yep! That’s the talk I watched :)
@benofbrown @ilovecomputers Embedding a png into the source to piggy back off of the browser's built in decompression into a canvas element = <3
@ilovecomputers Looks like Japan sailed off towards the South America, though...
@boneidol woah! Just looked it up. I totally did not know about that concept. This is the coolest thing.
Just learned from @boneidol that this is called a quine: a self replicating code. This is just the raddest: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)
@ilovecomputers i love how <font color="false"> turns into 0xFA00E0 -> pink
@riking wat? How? There’s no # in front nor a reserved color word.
@ilovecomputers okay so this is NOT in the quirks spec for hashless colors, and does NOT work in CSS. only in <font color=>.
@riking I’m not seeing anything in HTML 3.2 spec either. This is some arcane shit forgotten by time lol
@ilovecomputers weird, in the output the globe is all pounds and tildes, but in the source there's a bunch of letters... wonder what that's about
@monorail just that’s the initial code and those letters aren’t encoded in the data/algo that outputs the final text
@monorail those letters are in a code comment so are likely irrelevant
@ilovecomputers yeah, but anything's possible with self-modifying code... it's just weird to me that they'd bother hardcoding something that the code will never spit out
@monorail or not. I’m just spit balling lol
@ilovecomputers I want that in my terminal!
@ilovecomputers I feel pretty impressed.
@ilovecomputers hooooly crapppp!! oₒ
*slowclap*
@ilovecomputers Apparently it came from this conference talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTxtiLp1C8Y