Ten Lines of Code That Changed My World
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- The author's first 'Hello World' program made a computer greet him, showing that computers obey commands.
- A humorous JavaScript snippet that highlights the language's weirdness with a pop culture reference.
- Self-modifying 6502 assembly code demonstrates low-level programming without guardrails, allowing code to overwrite itself.
- A batch script 'touch.bat' creates empty files on Windows, a simple utility the author relied on.
- A CSS debugger concept humorously compared to console.log, always styled in hotpink.
- Poking memory to get infinite lives in games reveals that all game data can be manipulated.
- A funny story about a speed-up loop used to avoid boring projects.
- The false cure 'rm -rf /' for Linux problems is a classic joke on IRC.
- A crude username scanner in Borland Pascal that exploited default passwords on a school LAN.
- An animated poem in 280 characters of pure CSS, created under Twitter's character limit.