Tags » code crimes
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Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany
We’re gonna need a bigger printer.
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Upward assignment in Ruby
A deep dive into the internals of Ruby and metaprogramming techniques, in a quest for a cursed operator.
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Launching a rocket in the worst possible way
Taking the humble <marquee> tag where no HTML tag has gone before.
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“Fixing” the rules of division
If we want to redefine how division works, Ruby is happy to oblige.
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Using DynamoDB as a calculator
Taking advantage of Amazon’s least-loved compute platform.
Getting an Important Internet Checkmark to follow your cursor
Party like it’s 1996! A trailing checkmark cursor will make your Brand Website feel fun and authentic.
Taking tuple unpacking to terrible places
I want to assign a bunch of variables to True, but I don’t know how many there are. Reflection to the rescue!
This YAML file will self-destruct in five seconds!
YAML allows you to execute arbitrary code in a parser, even if you really really shouldn’t.
Safely deleting a file called ‘-rf *’
If for some reason you create a file called
-rf *, it’s possible to delete it safely. But really, don’t create it in the first place.