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Post number 15175

sylloge — Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:28:51 -0800

1/20th the size of 5k: the 256b competition
Most won't work on anything but Win/IE5+, and you have to download the (65.2Kb) .zip file, but ... wow.

By: kokogiak

kokogiak — Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:13:12 -0800

Damn. Milo has some fantastic stuff entered there. The presentation of the entries could be better, great link though.

By: riffola

riffola — Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:25:35 -0800

That is some really interesting stuff. Here's the source code for a 198 byte color picker

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:30:32 -0800

Milo's the hardest workin' man in 256 bytes. "the don of dhtml" we should call him. He's a badass.

By: sylloge

sylloge — Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:31:23 -0800

(Forgot to say that I originally found it from Milo's site — my favorite of his entries is "Spike": click it for more action.) Tech-Satellite is genius for its exploitation of existing system resources; Mados-Plastic is a gorgeous effect that I have never seen before; and the two Iotic Moire entries are amazing: totally made of "_" and "/". (I also like the homage to two good 5k entries (1, 2) in Madros-Lightswitch and Hultgreen-I_am_insane.) Hopefully they will be put online somewhere so they can be linked to directly.

By: mkn

mkn — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 00:16:53 -0800

awww damnit, deadline was a few hours ago. I have a Flash piece I could have entered (I'm surprised that there was only one in there).

By: milov

milov — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 01:48:28 -0800

Only problem is, filling 5120 bytes for this year's 5k compo is gonna be a real challenge - what am I going to do with all that space?! ^_^

By: kokogiak

kokogiak — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 07:03:24 -0800

Think of it as a luxury suite milo. Stretch out and be at home.

By: dagny

dagny — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 08:26:01 -0800

256 bytes? Hah! When I was a kid, we never had 256 bytes! We had to code our ecommerce portals backwards, carved into big rocks, using only 8 bytes! The kids of today...

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 08:57:11 -0800

wow. a lot of the entries actually crashed my browser. nonetheless, very cool.

By: sans

sans — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:33:43 -0800

Speaking of which - when is the 5K this year? ** Milo, excellent work yet again. I love evil twin. (More good stuff right here: http://www.milov.nl/iambald)

By: milov

milov — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 11:27:04 -0800

FYI: non-zipped, directly-linkable copies of my entries here: http://milov.nl/code/256b/