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This reminds me of code golf, an activity I had some good fun with as a young teen.

Coincidentally, one of my first contributions to the community was a low fidelity "flappy bird" clone in less than 0.5 kb of javascript. Maybe someone will find fascination in my old hobby and its surrounding community:

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/23452



Do you still accept more optimizations? :-) I believe there are tons of mechanical substitutions that can be made there, for example `i%17?r+=z:r+='|\n|'+z` should simplify into `r+=i%17?z:'|\n|'+z`.


If constrained by size of result rather source you get sizecoding, a generalization of demoscene.




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