Well, the prank is being refined for many years now, by the fine folks partying at:

https://www.ioccc.org

In fact that line in question does come from an IOCCC winner: https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/1985/shapiro...

In the late 90s, I interviewed for a job as a Technical Product Manager with a Toronto startup. The CTO/Co-founder, was an obfuscated C contest winner: https://www.ioccc.org/1985/lycklama/index.html

Great guy to work with. I think he runs a craft brewery now.

Cool! I'll have to look deeper to see if I could use it as a base for porting https://github.com/akavel/catation to Rust+Iroh! (EDIT: related, do you maybe have plans to merge flipflop with https://github.com/andunieee/my-beloved-rubble ?)

May I ask, was it vibed/LLM-assisted to some extent, or is it purely human-made?

I was recently researching apps like this for the usecase of writing devops/tech-support "playbooks", and also (related) "runnable readmes". Among many approaches and attempts I found, I most liked the one taken by https://runme.dev, for a bunch of reasons. Did you try it? Do you (plan to) support their features and format? It was still missing a few things I'd like (including some that I see in yours), but to me it also has some advantages over yours - e.g.:

- env vars parametrization;

- a CLI tool with interactive or non-interactive interface (maybe you also have one? I didn't check);

- flags in fence-blocks rather than in frontmatter.

Runme is great. One thing I required was mobile support which I didn't see in Runme. I also thought the VS Code dependency was a bit heavy for me since I otherwise don't use VS Code.

- env vars parametrization: this is an issue I've hit myself and am looking to add a solution for it. Created an issue for it: https://github.com/ledgesh/ledge/issues/9

- CLI: Ledge does have a CLI. One gap is it can't run a code block from the CLI - another good item to add. Created as an issue: https://github.com/ledgesh/ledge/issues/10

- flags: you can add flags in the codeblock in Ledge (like confirm, norun, etc)

Thanks for the great input!

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