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This was originally shared on reddit, but for some reason I cannot update it anymore. I've now mirrored it as this GitHub Gist.

List of alternative launchers for Android TV

For whatever reason, it's really difficult to discover alternative launchers for Android TV. Sure, you can find a couple of them, but there are so many terrible results that you will end up wasting quite some time.

Thus, I've compiled this list of alternative Android TV launchers. It's not comprehensive (I'm certain I missed some, please suggest them in comments); I'm not endorsing any particular one; and I have not tried all of them. Some are free, some are paid. Some contain ads. Some contain IAP (in-app purchases). Some require too many intrusive permissions.

This is a small Python 2 script written in 2011 to download a bunch of images from the (defunct) website twitpic.com.

Back then, Twitter was really a microblogging platform that only allowed short text messages and nothing else. TwitPic was a third-party website to host user-submitted images with short URLs, and those URLs could be embedded into normal tweets.

Around that time, I was playing a lot of Super Meat Boy, and for some reason I wanted to download and view all the images posted in that Twitter/TwitPic account. So I wrote this script. I ran it like this:

./download_twitpic.py  http://twitpic.com/photos/SuperMeatBoy?page={1..9}

A bunch of classic and memorable (old) PC games. Some are very well known, other are more niche hidden games. They are all worth revisiting.

Here's the list, in no particular order. Mostly because this is a dump of a brainstorm of a list of PC games. I spend hours thinking about them, so I'd rather take note.

Alley Cat (1983-1984, DOS, 1 player)
- Wikipedia, MobyGames, Lutris
- Very old game, back when video cards could only display four simultaneous colors on the screen.
Jump 'n Bump (1998, DOS, 4 players)
- Wikipedia, MobyGames, Libregamewiki, Libre Games, web version
Single-screen platforming game with cutesy graphics but merci

Mobile games

Good mobile games that I enjoy and recommend. In no particular order.

Name	Android	iOS	PC	Players	Description
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection	Android	iOS	In-browser or download	Single player	Around 40 logic puzzle games, including minesweeper and sudoku and many others. Guaranteed to be solvable by logic.
Spaceteam	Android	iOS	Steam VR?	Local 2-8 players	Cooperative party game where players shout technobabble at each other

Python Mandelbrot fractal

Trivial implementation of the Mandelbrot fractal written in pure Python. It outputs to the terminal using 24-bit ANSI escape codes, which is widely supported by many terminals.

No optimization was done to the code. It's supposed to be simple and straightforward.

There is a one-to-one mapping between each calculated point from the fractal and one output character. This results in a low-resolution image made of characters (instead of pixels),

	# Try this at https://python.microbit.org/v/3

	# Problem: how to make two distinct "sprites" for each player of tic-tac-toe, if all we have is just a single pixel?
	# Solution: I don't know!
	# I've tried making each pixel animate (blink) in different brightness ans patterns.
	# I'm still not happy with the result, but I didn't want to throw away this code.
	# Maybe I should make them blink alternately (i.e. out-of-phase).
	# Maybe I should use the intermediate pixels to "join" cells that are of the same type, similar to how Puyo Puyo graphics work.

	from microbit import *

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	# This is some experimental code I wrote while trying to learn more about asyncio in Python 3.
	# I wrote it many years ago, I remember nothing about it.
	# I'm uploading it to a Gist so in the future I will be able to refer back to it.

	import asyncio
	from aiohttp import web

	#!/usr/bin/env node

	// Stupid simple progress bar.

	class StupidSimpleProgressBar {
	constructor(blocks, {prefix='', suffix='', totalWidth=78}) {
	this.blocks = blocks;
	this.prefixes = prefix.split('\n');
	this.suffixes = suffix.split('\n');
	this.totalWidth = totalWidth;

	// lit-transition.js
	// Provides some functions/objects that work on both Lit v1 and Lit v2/v3.
	// This code is based on this proof-of-concept: https://codepen.io/denilsonsa/pen/dPyWZbY

	// How to use this code? Use this:
	// import { multicss as css, multihtml as html, multinothing as nothing } from './lit-transition.js';
	// Instead of Lit's own css, html and nothing functions/objects.

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