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by a1k0n 5462 days ago
I could have said "in 454 characters of C" but that wouldn't have been as linkbaity. Thanks for clicking!

Yes, the aim was compression (golfing), not obfuscation. Compression of silly ASCII things has been sort of a hobby of mine for a while and I intend to blog about that in particular. Another little compressed snippet is my "email signature" at the bottom of my site root. Try clicking on it.

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Both of these (the signature, and the post) are amazing!

....jealous

http://a1k0n.net/2006/09/15/obfuscated-c-donut.html

Jesus Christ. I love you, dude. Your site must have the highest awesomeness-per-bit ratio on the Internet :)

Thanks. :) I'm most proud of my IOCCC 2006 winner (the IOCCC organizers announced the winners, but not the actual entries, then disappeared from the planet): http://a1k0n.net/2006/09/20/obfuscated-c-donut-2.html