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repl.it

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:15:27 +0000

repl.it

Oh, this is (year-)old news, but it's still fairly significant in the world of LOLCODE: the interactive programming site, repl.it, supports in-browser exploration of LOLCODE.

It does its work on top of lol-coffee, a CoffeeScript implementation of a LOLCODE interpreter. Fun stuff!

Notdennising is an action applying to nothing

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:58:51 +0000

Notdennising is an action applying to nothing

This month in natlang awesome, Andy Baio has released a Z-machine interpreter site: playfic.com. The key innovation here is that it's both writeable and readable: play games, “view source” on them, download, modify, and upload a new, playable version.

Hearing about the natural language programming capabilities of Inform7 upon its release in 2006 definitely set some of the seeds for LOLCODE. As Baio points out on his introductory blog post, this is a fully playable 'game':

East of the Garden is the Gazebo. Above is the Treehouse. A billiards table is in the Gazebo. On it is a trophy cup. A starting pistol is in the cup. In the Treehouse is a container called a cardboard box.

AWSUM.

Arrr and forsooth

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:22:19 +0000

Arrr and forsooth

O HAI.

New friend Rob Muller pointed me to a project that he and his friend cooked up about a year ago. Since today is September 19th, Olde Timey Speke seemed relevant enough to today's a Talk Like A Pirate celebration to share:

Ye Olde Sea Pluss Pluss!

It's a preprocessor-driven variant, but it's a bit of fun up on github.

kthxxxxxxbye

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:08:54 +0000

kthxxxxxxbye

Inspired (once again) by the Ruby community (discussion here), closing nested blocks can be accomplished with repeating 'x' for as many “kthx”s that would be repeated. See the discussion at the above link, and it will be made clear.

(h/t Steve Losh & Bennett Kolasinski)

protolol

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:36:01 +0000

protolol

The best thing about UDP jokes is that I don’t care if you get them or not.

protolol

SXSWi 2011

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:01:14 +0000

SXSWi 2011

Hey! Long time no blog!

I don't know if anyone regularly watches LOLCODE news any more, but I will be hanging out at South by Southwest Interactive between now and March 16, 2011. If you've heard of LOLCODE, say hi. If you want to find me (or follow me), then ping me on teh twitterz: @atl.

An API with Impact

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:08:20 +0000

An API with Impact

You doubtless know that our older, far more accomplished cousin, the Cheezburger network, is serious business. What you may not know is that they now make several APIs available.

Naturally, the way for checking in with the API, the “Hello World” call, is at api.cheezburger.com/xml/hai.

Most of the other API elements are for hooking into the user- and submission-oriented features of the various sites on the network, but the Content Caption API is fairly nifty on its own, with a quite complete interface for placing text on images. I'd recommend checking it out.

lolbash

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:19:00 +0000

lolbash

I just had this brought to my attention. lolbash.sh:

# LOL!!1

alias wtf='dmesg'
alias onoz='cat /var/log/errors.log'
alias rtfm='man'

alias visible='echo'
alias invisible='cat'
alias moar='more'

alias icanhas='mkdir'
alias donotwant='rm'
alias dowant='cp'
alias gtfo='mv'

alias hai='cd'
alias plz='pwd'

alias inur='locate'

alias nomz='ps -aux'
alias nomnom='killall'

alias cya='reboot'
alias kthxbai='halt'

Well, that pretty much says it all, doesn't it?

(via @natevw)

inception.c

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:47:15 +0000

inception.c

Raised as possibly relevant to your interests:

Inception, a repository on github by A R Karthick that's the “Inception movie explained programmatically.” From the README:

My tribute to [Director Christopher] Nolan in “C” Language and a bit of assembly (x86) as the inception is done using x86 code morphing so that Fischer wakes up thinking that the thought was originated from his mind. Running the program would unravel the entire sequence in the movie. Reading the code would explain the movie Programmatically.

Nicely done. I'm always sympathetic to efforts like this. The commit log in itself is a nice artifact.

(H/T: @ericflo)

Beta site preview

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:17:22 +0000

Beta site preview

For those of you who are still clicking around the 'net looking for funny things while avoiding worldwide football (soccer) fever, I offer a preview of a newly designed LOLCODE website. Click for the beta. I hope this is something that will generate a real buzz about the language.

Pass it on!

A new HAI WORLD of sorts

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:08:31 +0000

A new HAI WORLD of sorts

Reddit has been infected by this meme of “A Reddit clone in X lines of Y programming language.” I suppose, then, that it was inevitable that someone would pull it off with LOLCODE. Naturally, as with any high performance web programming needs, they turned to PHP, and Tetraboy's LOLCODE implementation, which was one of the very first out there (and why it might not look like other dialects of LOLCODE found elsewhere).

CAN HAS SQL?
DBASE IZ GETDB('db/lcsn.db')
FUNNAHS IZ DBUCKET(&DBASE&,"CAN I PLZ GET * ALL UP IN lollit")
IM IN UR FUNNAHS ITZA TITLE
	VOTEZ IZ &TITLE#ups& - &TITLE#downs&
...

Well played, keyz182, well played.

PragPub

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:33:51 +0000

PragPub

Well played, Pragmatic Programmers, well played.

The inaugural issue of PragPub, an electronic magazine for programmers edited by Michael Swaine, former editor of Dr. Dobb’s Journal, has a cameo appearance for LOLCODE.

(originally via Gruber)

For the lulz. Also, marblecake.

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:44:43 +0000

For the lulz. Also, marblecake.

Paul Lamere, a blogger for whom I have long had much respect, has outdone himself with a long look at the recent 4chan hack of a time.com poll.

At the core of the hack is the work of a dozen or so, backed by an army of a thousand who downloaded and ran the autovoters and also backed by an untold number of others that unwittingly fell prey to the spam url autovoters. So why do they do it? Why do they write code, build complex applications, publish graphs - why do they organize a team that is more effective than most startup companies? Says Zombocom: “For the lulz”.

Amen, brother.

Google code search

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:24:20 +0000

Google code search

Just minutes into April 2nd, I discover that Google has introduced LOLCODE language search. Nice.

(via NetworkWorld)

The Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom song

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:31:13 +0000

The Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom song

Parry Gripp is a brilliant, mad genius. Anyone who rocked to Buffy the Vampire Slayer's theme tune at any time in the past twelve years already knows this. Lately, he has been building his reputation as the Mayor of the Internet by creating such musical hits as ”Hamster on a Piano,” ”Fuzzy Fuzzy Cute Cute,” and the below “Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom” song:

I came across the above video, and knew I had to remix the music using my latest project: a script that created automatic, parameterized random re-edits of a song. It lead to a potentially limitless number of variations, most of which are actually less annoying than the original:

I wrote up a full explanation of how I did it on my personal site. It tries to get across some tricky computer and music concepts in a non-technical manner.

But why do I bother posting it to this site? I mean, other than the fact that it's a mashup of a cute, popular internet meme?

LOLCODE helped me create it. No, I didn't code it in our favorite esolang, but the process of designing LOLCODE got me thinking about fluent interfaces: code that when you read it, just makes sense. While the below code might not have the same enduring qualities as CAN HAS STDIO?, it's definitely motivated by the same desire to create code that anyone can read:

  beats = song.analysis.beats
  first_beats = beats.that(fall_on_the(1))

I didn't create the open-sourced Echo Nest Remix API, but I have contributed parts that might make it more fun to code. If you want to learn more about Remix, I have also written a semi-technical overviewof the API, as well.

And if you want to share the remixes, you can get the embed codes at the bottom of my explanation of the remixes, or point people to an OpenTape of the songs.

More LOLCODE-related news soon…

If programming languages were religions

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:02:37 +0000

If programming languages were religions

Variations of this joke get passed around all the time, but this one was special. LOLCODE joined the ranks of Lua, Ruby, and Erlang as the languages of the moment worth comparing.

LOLCODE would be Pastafarianism - An esoteric, Internet-born belief that nobody really takes seriously, despite all the efforts to develop and spread it.

Nailed it.

The whole piece is worth checking out, but I just couldn't resist quoting the highlight here.

The LOLZ keep rolling in

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:42:36 +0000

The LOLZ keep rolling in

I recently learned of a lot more developments in the LOLCODE world.

First off, congratulations to Dale, Brendon, and Carlos, winners of the N-Squared LOLCODE Challenge. Achievements like this give me hope for the next generation.

Secondly, Adrian Tsai provided a C++ LOLCODE interpreter for Windows. I haven't had time to investigate fully, but it sounds promising.

Also fresh off the blogosphere is a Ruby-to-LOLCODE code translator that works via Ruby's abstract syntax tree. (Also available on github.) It reminds me more than a little of Patrick Michaud's talk on using Perl6's Parrot to do a similar thing. But that doesn't dampen my delight, because I love this sort of hack.

I'm going to be taking a bit of a holiday, so things on the site and forums might be a bit quiet from my end for a while.

HEPPY HOLIDAYZ!

ROFLThing in New York

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:00:45 +0000

ROFLThing in New York

If you haven't heard the news, the folks behind ROFLCon, a watershed in LOLCODE's life, have teamed up to do another event, this time in NYC. Alexis Ohanian, of the big hands, the OLPC Laptop Auction, the LOLCats panel, and an obscure news aggregation site, is the host this time, and it looks like it's shaping up to be another nice event.

Check out the news: if you can be in New York on January 24, 2009, then try to do so. (LOLCODE won't be there, sad panda.)

DRGBLZ

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:26:09 +0000

DRGBLZ

Airships are funny. Dirigibles cast as flying LOL-Manatees are somehow magic. I caught Aaron Muszalski's flickr set of BaLOLoons, and thought it was great. However, co-conspirator Meredith Yayanos went one better and blogified the concept at DRGBLZ.com.

(Thanks to Simon Willison for pointing out the blog/site.)

Lucky students

lolcode@lolcode.com (Adam Lindsay) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:40:19 +0000

Lucky students

Unless you're one of the lucky students of Massey University in New Zealand, this is merely a curiosity, but I hear that there is a contest with cash prizes for the best LOLCODE program to compute square roots. The fine and clearly discerning folks at N-Squared Software (i c whut u did thar) are sponsoring this programming challenge to support local programming talent.

This is not the first time I've noticed the role of LOLCODE in education in the lands down under. Good luck to all who compete!

(via Cantareus)