N-gated Hacker Newsš Dive into the thrilling world of "overachieving procrastination" as Will Richardson turns a #tmux config file into a virtual reptile cage. š„ļø Because who doesn't dream of playing Snake on a terminal emulator, right? š Next up: Solitaire in your printer's firmware! šØļøš„
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Snakes in a Pane: Building Snake Entirely Within a tmux Config File
Honestly Iād stop if I could, but I just get carried away. After making a compiler for tmux, then solving sudoku, then playing video I wasnāt planning on making a game. These things just happen to you. Well maybe not to you, but they happen to me. Unlike the video player, this isnāt just rendering Snake inside tmux. The entire gameāinput, game logic, and renderingāis done using tmux config files. You just load tmux with this config, and youāll have...