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by kragen 943 days ago
i'd say these are still ifses, just not linear ones

dwitter looks pretty cool. like twitter if it was designed for creativity and beauty instead of trolling

i did a golfed emoji ifs the other day in python but it's 288 characters, not 140 or even 280: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/hilbert.py

i feel like the three levels of representation needed to draw l-systems on a raster display (strings, turtle commands, and cartesian coordinates) sort of disfavor golfing. i managed to get an ascii-art ifs down to 259 strokes by using complex numbers instead of vectors: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/cifs.py