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This is a small Python 2 script written in 2011 to download a bunch of images from the (defunct) website twitpic.com.

Back then, Twitter was really a microblogging platform that only allowed short text messages and nothing else. TwitPic was a third-party website to host user-submitted images with short URLs, and those URLs could be embedded into normal tweets.

Around that time, I was playing a lot of Super Meat Boy, and for some reason I wanted to download and view all the images posted in that Twitter/TwitPic account. So I wrote this script. I ran it like this:

./download_twitpic.py  http://twitpic.com/photos/SuperMeatBoy?page={1..9}

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#!/usr/bin/env python3

# This is some experimental code I wrote while trying to learn more about asyncio in Python 3.
# I wrote it many years ago, I remember nothing about it.
# I'm uploading it to a Gist so in the future I will be able to refer back to it.

import asyncio
from aiohttp import web

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A bunch of classic and memorable (old) PC games. Some are very well known, other are more niche hidden games. They are all worth revisiting.

Here's the list, in no particular order. Mostly because this is a dump of a brainstorm of a list of PC games. I spend hours thinking about them, so I'd rather take note.

• Alley Cat (1983-1984, DOS, 1 player)
  • Wikipedia, MobyGames, Lutris
  • Very old game, back when video cards could only display four simultaneous colors on the screen.
• Jump 'n Bump (1998, DOS, 4 players)
  • Wikipedia, MobyGames, Libregamewiki, Libre Games, web version
• Single-screen platforming game with cutesy graphics but merci

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#!/usr/bin/env node

// Stupid simple progress bar.

class StupidSimpleProgressBar {
	constructor(blocks, {prefix='', suffix='', totalWidth=78}) {
		this.blocks = blocks;
		this.prefixes = prefix.split('\n');
		this.suffixes = suffix.split('\n');
		this.totalWidth = totalWidth;

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// lit-transition.js
// Provides some functions/objects that work on both Lit v1 and Lit v2/v3.
// This code is based on this proof-of-concept: https://codepen.io/denilsonsa/pen/dPyWZbY

// How to use this code? Use this:
//   import { multicss as css, multihtml as html, multinothing as nothing } from './lit-transition.js';
// Instead of Lit's own css, html and nothing functions/objects.

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

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Mobile games

Good mobile games that I enjoy and recommend. In no particular order.

Name	Android	iOS	PC	Players	Description
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection	Android	iOS	In-browser or download	Single player	Around 40 logic puzzle games, including minesweeper and sudoku and many others. Guaranteed to be solvable by logic.
Spaceteam	Android	iOS	Steam VR?	Local 2-8 players	Cooperative party game where players shout technobabble at each other

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Python Mandelbrot fractal

Trivial implementation of the Mandelbrot fractal written in pure Python. It outputs to the terminal using 24-bit ANSI escape codes, which is widely supported by many terminals.

No optimization was done to the code. It's supposed to be simple and straightforward.

There is a one-to-one mapping between each calculated point from the fractal and one output character. This results in a low-resolution image made of characters (instead of pixels),

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Steam Community modals as links

Converts pseudo-links from Steam Community into real anchor tags. Advantages:

• No JavaScript needed for opening Steam Community items. They are now plain links.
• We can open them as a full page, instead of being constrained to the clunky modal dialog.
• We can open them as a new tabs or as a new windows.
• We can right-click to copy the link to each item.
• We can click-and-drag the link.
• We can open many items as background tabs (by middle-clicking on them) and let them load in the background, instead of forcing us to wait for them to load.

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Steam Input controller layouts

This Gist tries to collect the Steam Input controller layouts that I have created. (And possibly others I might have found online.)

Unfortunately, sharing layouts is painful due to lack of features on Valve's side. Thus, I'm creating this humble text file over here.

See also

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