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LorenDB
I love the Perl camel! Are there any other languages that utilize ASCII art? (I'm too lazy to look...)
Amorymeltzer
I see this as basically broken for Perl: getting camel ascii art with lots of "dromedary" or "camel" in the output breaks the illusion!
juliusgeo
You can make ascii art with Python as long as the entire program is expression-only. I made a package that does something similar to the EyeDrops library mentioned in this thread, but for Python: https://github.com/juliusgeo/exprify.
jeron
Needs the keyboard to pop out on mobile for additional realness
orionblastar
Cool, but does it even run and compile?
charcircuit
No, and it makes spelling mistakes
cinntaile
That's awfully similar to the code I write.
DonHopkins
Coming soon: I'm compiler. I'm debugger. I'm stackoverflow copy paster. I'm copiloter.
saywhanow
I didn’t expect it to be so realistic.
mirekrusin
I think it produces code that saves the world. It's suppose to be run one second before some sort of catastrophe to work, before that its meant throw "access denied" or something similar.

Alternatively if you code with hoodie on, it breaks in somewhere.

SerCe
I highly recommend https://hackertyper.net/ if you want to look like a stereotypical hacker.
pushedx
I would not reccomend hackertyper.net.

Sometime around 2012 they were bought by someone who wanted to make some ad revenue off the site. In the process of transferring the site to the new owner, something was messed up with the code, and the C code is now double spaced (you'll see that there is a blank line between each line of code). The original HackerTyper was not like this.

If you see HackerTyper used in the wild, in short films and YouTube videos and the like, which it often is, you'll notice that around 2012 it started appearing as double spaced, which makes me sad every time I see it. The original site had no ads, and looked a lot more convincing.

stavros
Wow, I thought you were overreacting, but no, that looks terrible.
bArray
Looks quite easily fixable too, the JS is quite simple.
mikeflynn
The Go example is a lot of comments right off the bat. To be clear, it’s good to comment your code, but maybe not when you are trying to look l33t on the cheap.
zipping1549
Are you saying that you don't write comments when you're hacking the CIA?
Raed667
All my 3xpl0its are written using best practices, TDD and hexagonal architecture.
throwup238
You forgot middle-out compression. That’s what really ties it all together.
tempodox
When selecting C and typing anything:

  ...
  char temp;
  temp = getc();
  printf("Received: %s", temp);
  ...
Oh my. Kaboom.
doubtfuluser
Yeah… hail to the LLM (in case that’s what’s behind this)
d-lisp
Not a C expert, but shouldn't %s be %c ?
hackerlight
Started off with 15 import statements for Java. Sounds about right.
m0llusk
That was an interesting Firefox crash.
rpmisms
Putting your resume in the HTML example is a great move.

A non-great move: clicking on the textbox on the homepage then clicking out gives a blank code window that doesn't do anything.

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