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I built a mIRC bot on EFnet that was a virtual puppy that followed me around in IRC channels, shyly looking out from behind my legs and then wagging & sniffing to greet newcomers to the channel. It was more popular than I was. People came from all to see & pet my virtual pup.
Twitter, what is the weirdest programming thing you've ever done but at the time thought it was fine? Mine is in the late 90s, I used mIRC script to write my own HTTP server. It did work and it did serve files, but I kind of shudder at the fact that I once did this.
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Just remembered one: 3-4 years ago assisting another dept with migrating files from SMB shares to a DMS. Their ingestion tool couldn't handle some chars or MAX_PATH. So I wrote a PS script that took a CSV input of paths, copied the files to a new location and sanitised the names.
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THE WEIRD SHIT: PS couldn't deal with UNC paths over MAX_PATH either so if the source path was over MAX_PATH the script would repeatedly nest symlinks into the path until it was below MAX_PATH and then copy the files out via the symlinked path. Weird as hell but worked perfectly
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Mathematical programming in SQL. We needed to calculate probability densities in SQL stored procedures at one point. I eventually redid the process to use multi-gigabyte lookup tables instead of calculating the values. Which was better, but still...https://twitter.com/KateLibc/status/1216824026456186884 …
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The CMS I wrote for a local environment non-profit back in 2007. They paid me $800 to do it and instead of just using an off-the-shelf solution I wrote a custom back-end in PHP+MySQL that allowed them to post articles to their existing static site. Included some very dubious code
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I remember doing server-side-includes. One file would be the top of an HTML doc, program generated the middle, and another file was the bottom. So no individual piece stood on its own as a well-formed entity. Seems barbaric to me now that i know templates are a thing.
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I once wrote a template expansion thing in Perl that worked its way through a document recursively until it could find nothing more to expand. Pretty normal, except that the recursive call was in the substitute expression of the regex.
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The weird thing here is that I didn’t actually know about recursion at the time. I kind of discovered what recursion was by accident. It freaked me out when it worked.
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Various weird projects for my CS undergrad... I did a Wolf3d-style "raycaster" engine on the LC-2 virtual machine, in assembly... the simulator only drew ASCII chars so the output was 80x25 ASCII, the walls were "textured" with a letter from the map. My roommate made hangman.
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Another was a programming language, with the lexer / interpreter / etc in Scheme (course taught from the MIT book). I didn't like Scheme so my plan was to make the language tiny, and then a big library providing all functionality written in my new "better" language.
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Čini se da učitavanje traje već neko vrijeme.
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