Toolleeo's links
A list
of things (not only) computer science students tend to
erroneously and at times surprisingly believe even
though they (probably) should know better.
As demonstrated by Casey Reas at the Eyeo Festival, June 2011, Minneapolis, Minnesota, a random maze generation program in one line of Commodore 64 Basic.
As developers, our jobs are very stressful, jumping from deadline to deadline, solving difficult problems on a daily basis, and handling…
Somewhere around 2014 I found an /etc/passwd file in some dumps of the BSD 3 source tree, containing passwords of all the old timers such as Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Brian W. Kernighan, Steve Bourne and Bill Joy.
A simulated Enigma machine, where the different parts of the machine are beautifully represented with graphics.
The notebook simulates an Enigma Machine and visualizes how it works. The Enigma Machine is an especially neat thing to visualize because it was electromechanical. As you used it, it moved. Instead of circuit traces, it had beautiful real wires connecting its pieces.
Image source: Wikipedia.
ASCIIQuarium is a short Perl script that lets you embrace aquatic nature from your terminal. It's an aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.
Generate HQ poly wallpapers.
Example with fixed color/gradient:
See Star Wars in ASCII with telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl.
A steam locomotive traverses the screen from right to left if sl is typed instead of ls.
Generates random messages fetched from a quotation database.
A program that generates a ASCII art of a cow with a bubble containing the specified message. I provide the Wikipedia link since at the moment the link to the author's homepage results to be unreachable).
ncurses program that displays the scrolling lines found in the movie The matrix.
Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of your own terminal!
Don’t stop typing, or all progress will be lost.
👾 Pokemon version of cowsay with CLI and API.
It will make your productivity plummet
I marker this article as "funny" since I can not believe it is serious. Or at least I'm missing something...
VIM Adventures is an online game based on VIM's keyboard shortcuts. It's the "Zelda meets text editing" game. So come have some fun and learn some VIM!
A command line tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers.
The game generates a maze that can be solved by the human.
The motion is based on the keyboard.
Despite I like this arrangement, I could not play from the smartphone, which is annoying.
I guess that nobody who developed the game has never tried the combination of keys for controlling the motion, which is so bad...
The most appreciable feature of the game is the maze generation, which is very nice.