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index.js

function(){/******************************************************************************************************************************/}

package.json

{
  "name": "sample"
  "keywords": [ "sample", "original" ]
}

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I wonder if there is a 140bytes for css.

@tsaniel: I'd love to see that. I made a couple of tweet-sized user CSS including a TurnOffTheLight for YouTube and Vimeo, and a "noise" filter for Facebook

@p01: I'd love to see that too. The 140bytes for javascript lets me learn lots of javascript tricks, I hope the css one will do so.

I think we should remind people to name their gist's description.
As it's hard to know whether one really did something or just fork.

i dunno, i think the tags on the 140byt.es site are probably good enough, since descriptions are truncated at a few words here anyway.

uhhhhh... How do I get my gists on the 140byt.es website?
Is it automatic? My snippets aren't there :(

Since we don't want spam entries, jed usually updates them manually. Since he's currently rather busy as js1k judge, please be patient until he finds the time.

Any comments on https://gist.github.com/3226069?

Nobody's around...

@tsaniel Every possible function that can fit into 140 characters has been written. Nothing more to see here...

@tsaniel @atesgoral What about my function (three comments up) - can anyone shrink it?

@atesgoral
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

I can't even reply to any gist, anyone knows what's going on?

The new layout breaks some of our concepts... :-(

Sorry, I don't use twitter, but here's a Lindenmayer system and some basic visualisation:

<title>L-system test</title> <script>

// A Lindenmayer system, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system
// Input:rules as a lookup table, start String, and iteration count. Outputs result String
// Example 1: Algae from the Wikipedia page above: f({"A":"AB","B":"A"},"A",3)
// Example 4, note that non-changing symbols also need rules: f({"F":"F+F-F-F+F","-":"-","+":"+"},"F",3)
function f(r,s,i){for(j=i;j--;){var a=s.split('');for(k=a.length;k--;){a[k]=r[a[k]];}s=a.join('');}return s;}

// A shorter-than-256-bytes simple turtle graphics SVG visualisation for the Lindenmayer system output String.
// Usage with Example 4 above: g( f({"F":"F+F-F-F+F","-":"-","+":"+"},"F",3) );
function g(s){var i=[0,3,0,-3],j=[-3,0,3,0],d=9,a=s.split(''),v='';for(k=a.length;k--;){if(a[k]=='F'){v+=' l'+i[d%4]+' '+j[d%4];}if(a[k]=='+'){d++}if(a[k]=='-'){d--}}document.body.innerHTML+="";}

</script>

Please enable JavaScript!

Why did you call the gist LICENSE.txt? Is there a story behind that?

Alright! I just re-enabled the javascript: uri thingy in firefox and tried https://gist.github.com/4275420

javascript:(function(){var a="-webkit-",b='transform:rotate(1turn);',c='transition:4s;';document.head.innerHTML+='<style>body{'+a+b+a+c+b+c})();

Cool!
hehehe!

Yeah, I'm new to this, but I have a bunch of ideas... I think a link to 140byt.es should be included in the tweets, because it gives some coherence to the tweeting, which are now totally random disconnected fragments of javascript that no one other than 140bytes participants will know what they're about or more importantly, where to go to find out what they're about. Yet, there are lots of js/es programmers out there that would be interested in this if they saw an entry tweet and were able to follow a link to the home page.

That's my argument, now the technical challenge: No matter what the size of a URI/URL twitter now minifies (or expands) it to 22 chars, allowing only 118 remaining for the actual code. I kind of think this is acceptable, because this 1) only make the challenge harder, which is the point, right, hardness? and 2) the chars reserved for the link can be considered part of the task, as it helps to promote the task(s) as a whole

@Revlin: The point of this challenge is fun and learning. The difficulty of it is balanced between "too easy to be fun" and "too hard to do anything of interest". So making it harder will not improve the challenge, quite the opposite. In addition, I don't think that we need the promotion. We are here for our own entertainment, not for marketing purposes.

@atk Thanks, dude. I'll start over with all that in mind.

I guess I can be self-defeating and waste 22 chars on including the link myself, without that necessarily being a rule :)

So, according to the instructions all I have to do is fork this repo and my fork will show up on the main page (whether or not I've made any changes)? I'm a bit confused about that... how important is the package.json in this process?

So I see a button on the main page, "Log in with GitHub," but clicking it has no effect. Is this the way to go to "Save your entry" as suggested in the instructions?

My first crack: https://gist.github.com/Revlin/6766557

Since the last github change, Forks don't show up on the main gist (unless you select "Forks").

The automatical updates of the homepage (140byt.es) don't work. Jed and I never found out why. Also, we usually only include stuff that has an actual use or at least a cool effect. The package.json should be valid JSON, otherwise the importer will stop (again).

hey all. i don't think the rules need to be changed, but i understand that our UI isn't optimal in that case (the platform has changed underneath our feet a few times since launch two years ago).

as for stuff showing up on the site, it doesn't happen until one of the admins stars the gist. this is to prevent spam and make sure that entries are not dupes and are of sufficient quality/creativity.

Hi!

Is tweet https://twitter.com/dluciv/status/404937670419161088 suitable to submit the gist, or I should reformat it in some other way?

Hi all,

Last month, subzey and I invented a system allowing to execute 190 JS characters in one single tweet.

Gist: https://gist.github.com/xem/7086007

I described it in detail here: http://xem.github.io/?golfing

Though, It uses 140 characters, not 140 bytes...

So do you think this system is still suitable for 140byt.es entries?

Also you can count the bytes with http://mothereff.in/byte-counter

I forked it and wrote a simple browser detection script in < 140bytes
https://gist.github.com/reza-farhadian/0d2e4f263aec898c5c67
tweet link: https://twitter.com/reza_farhadian/status/470131135922442243
👌

Am I missing something or is it really hard to make two forks of the same gist on github? I've been struggling with it for an hour now. Even used the github API to try and fork it to no avail.

As the original site is dead now I created a list of all forks with description. Any feedback is welcome!
https://aishikaty.github.io/140bytes/