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Looking for a festive Yule log to brighten up your terminal? You’ll love this GitHub CLI extension that gives you a cozy, animated Git log. 🔥 🪵 https://github.com/leereilly/gh-yule-log

James Brundage | MVP

@mrpowershell.com

Lol that brings me back! Long long ago @leeholmes.com made a similar fire animation in #PowerShell. Time to curl up in front of a virtual fire 😀

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Lee Holmes

@leeholmes.com

15 Jan

Haha, I've spent so many times looking at it that I can notice the GH version has a bug that makes the fire drift left :) I also did it in APL recently, that was a trip: www.leeholmes.com/apl-demoscene/

leeholmes.comAPL's DemosceneAPL is one of the most curious programming languages you’ll ever run across. For example, take a random problem out of Rosetta Code: “Numbers divisible by their individual digits, but not by the produ...

James Brundage | MVP

@mrpowershell.com

15 Jan

Wow, that's somewhere between "very cool" and "omg" _Please_ tell me you actually wrote an APL parser (or made a bunch of clever PowerShell alises to make it act like API) Also, long time no see. How ya been? Would love to catch up. Been too long.

Lee Holmes

@leeholmes.com

16 Jan

Nope, regular ol' APL :) ⎕IO ← 0 iter ←{⍉(≢⍉⍵)↑⍉(≢⍵)↑1⊖1⌽1⊖⊃9.05÷⍨+/+⌿1 0 ¯1∘.⊖1 0 ¯1⌽¨⊂¯1⊖¯1⌽( (≢⍵)+2)↑⍉((≢⍉⍵)+2)↑⍉⍵⍪28+228×?2⍴⍨≢⍵} {}{canvas∘←170↓' +=*░#▒▓'[(⌊(⍵÷10))⌊9]⋄_←⎕DL÷32⋄iter ⍵}⍣≡0⍴⍨1 1×250

James Brundage | MVP

@mrpowershell.com

16 Jan

Cool! 😆 Only somewhat surprised how many of those characters render, since I recently found out that Unicode's Legacy Computing Block supports APL. And shucks 🫤 APL translation is still on my eventual backburner (approximate position: 10kb)