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I highly recommend https://hackertyper.net/ if you want to look like a stereotypical hacker.

I would not reccomend hackertyper.net.

Sometime around 2012 they were bought by someone who wanted to make some ad revenue off the site. In the process of transferring the site to the new owner, something was messed up with the code, and the C code is now double spaced (you'll see that there is a blank line between each line of code). The original HackerTyper was not like this.

If you see HackerTyper used in the wild, in short films and YouTube videos and the like, which it often is, you'll notice that around 2012 it started appearing as double spaced, which makes me sad every time I see it. The original site had no ads, and looked a lot more convincing.

Wow, I thought you were overreacting, but no, that looks terrible.

Looks quite easily fixable too, the JS is quite simple.

When selecting C and typing anything:

  ...
  char temp;
  temp = getc();
  printf("Received: %s", temp);
  ...

Oh my. Kaboom.

Yeah… hail to the LLM (in case that’s what’s behind this)

Not a C expert, but shouldn't %s be %c ?

Yes.

Started off with 15 import statements for Java. Sounds about right.

The Go example is a lot of comments right off the bat. To be clear, it’s good to comment your code, but maybe not when you are trying to look l33t on the cheap.

Are you saying that you don't write comments when you're hacking the CIA?

All my 3xpl0its are written using best practices, TDD and hexagonal architecture.

You forgot middle-out compression. That’s what really ties it all together.

also genact https://github.com/svenstaro/genact (but used to pretend compiling / downloading not coding)

I love the Perl camel! Are there any other languages that utilize ASCII art? (I'm too lazy to look...)

No idea re other languages, but diving further into the Perl asylum:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::EyeDrops

I see this as basically broken for Perl: getting camel ascii art with lots of "dromedary" or "camel" in the output breaks the illusion!

You can make ascii art with Python as long as the entire program is expression-only. I made a package that does something similar to the EyeDrops library mentioned in this thread, but for Python: https://github.com/juliusgeo/exprify.

Needs the keyboard to pop out on mobile for additional realness

Cool, but does it even run and compile?

No, and it makes spelling mistakes

That's awfully similar to the code I write.

Coming soon: I'm compiler. I'm debugger. I'm stackoverflow copy paster. I'm copiloter.

I didn’t expect it to be so realistic.

I think it produces code that saves the world. It's suppose to be run one second before some sort of catastrophe to work, before that its meant throw "access denied" or something similar.

Alternatively if you code with hoodie on, it breaks in somewhere.

That was an interesting Firefox crash.

Love it

Putting your resume in the HTML example is a great move.

A non-great move: clicking on the textbox on the homepage then clicking out gives a blank code window that doesn't do anything.

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