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Mousetail
@themousetail.bsky.social
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Programmer, Code golfer, Puzzler.
https://mousetail.nl
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Byte Heist now has statistics on it's profile page actually filled in with new data. Now you can see what languages you are the best in.
A profile page for lukegastafson showing they golf the most in python and have a lot of first places.
November 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Why AI was fun in the '10s but feels so uncomfortable to read now
A graph. The X axis is labeled "human likeness" and the Y axis "affinity". Noise has low likeness and low affinity. 2018 as has medium likeness and medium affinity. Modern AI has very low affinity but high likeness. Genuine human interaction has very high likeness and very high affinity.
October 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
themousetail.bsky.social
On byte-heist.com, now you can see how many first places and top 10% you earned on your profile page.
A profile page for dmrichwa showing 119 solutions, 21 challenges, 7 first places, and 8 top 10%s.
September 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
themousetail.bsky.social
Find a girl that loves you the way Germans love building giant steel structures
September 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
themousetail.bsky.social
My Spider solitaire game now has a cheat where you shuffle more decks into the stack. All it really does is dig you in deeper when you get in trouble. Anyway, I finished after using the entire world supply of cards.
August 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
themousetail.bsky.social
I made a simple command line spider solitaire game in #Rust.

It has somewhat balanced cheats that can get me to nearly 50% winrate.

github.com/mousetail/sp...
August 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
themousetail.bsky.social
#python #quiz What 14 character string do you substitute for "?" to get the output "you win"?
x=[?] least_element = sorted([*x, 0])[0] if least_element == 7: print("You win")
August 14, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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#programing #challenge Can you find if a graph is planar using as few bytes as possible? byte-heist.com/challenge/56...

A quite difficult challenge but very mathematically satisfying. I've been researching #graph #theory for days.
A complex graph with labeled nodes
July 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
themousetail.bsky.social
I found these on Reddit and found them also very descriptive for the type of discourse commonly found here and on Mastodon/Tumblr.
June 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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June 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
themousetail.bsky.social
Cool be a cool #art style for a film or something
May 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
themousetail.bsky.social
Mesmerizing #art

Crated reflecting with an angle of tan^2(theta+t) of a circle
May 7, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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And here is it with cosine in the same place.
A distorted cardioid shape
May 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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It's funny how messing with the #math crates such interesting shapes. Here I replaced the tan to calculate the reflection angle with tan squared:
A mess of orange lines inscribed in a circle
May 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
themousetail.bsky.social
I decided to play with #caustics in #shadertoy. Obviously inspired by the recent #numberphile video. #art
The top half of a heart shape inscribed in a black circle
May 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
themousetail.bsky.social
You can change the values of numbers in python:

#python #programming #code

I take no responsibility for damage caused
>>> ctypes.cast(id(1),ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int))[6]=2 >>> 1 2
December 17, 2024 at 6:21 PM