[dlowe]

FWIW, if anyone is curious to see the process of building my entry ("Conway's game of death") I just made the repo public: https://github.com/dlowe/death

This contest is great. I'm so glad it's happening regularly again :)

[lifthrasiir]

I've also posted the history (or, "scratchpad") of my winning code (2012/kang) to Gist: https://gist.github.com/3909337 (possible spoilers ahead)

Okay, it is quite cryptic and a bit unorganized (as I frantically updated the code as I saw any optimization opportunity), but it may be interesting to see how the code is gradually shorten.

[omoikane]

Process of building my entry is mostly in spoiler.html.gz. For your viewing convenience, it's also here: http://uguu-archive.appspot.com/nyaruko/edit.html

[flaie]

This is really awesome, thank you for sharing it.

[dlowe]

How did you record that?

[omoikane]

A VIM script snapshots the file every so often, and another program turns the recording into HTML. Package for both is here: http://uguu.org/arc_homura.html

Manual: http://uguu-archive.appspot.com/homura/manual.html

[dlowe]

Fantastic. Thanks :)

[MTGandP]

A lot of your commit messages don't make any sense. Is there any point at which the program was fully functional but non-obfuscated?

[dlowe]

More-or-less yes. I started compressing and obfuscating the code after https://github.com/dlowe/death/blob/7fcbcabb9f69bf0cdfff4651...

Sorry about the commit messages. Think of them as part of the obfuscation ;)