[HN Gopher] GitHub Snakes SVG
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       GitHub Snakes SVG
        
       Author : keepamovin
       Score  : 192 points
       Date   : 2023-12-21 13:10 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Url changed from
       | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/itning/itning/output/githu...
       | by user suggestion.
        
       | ecuaflo wrote:
       | The snake doesn't get longer as it eats like in the game
        
         | micw wrote:
         | Also the snake uses the area outside the grey raster.
         | Unfortunately the "issues" feature is deactivated.
        
           | rob74 wrote:
           | I guess that's not a bug but a feature, it has to do that to
           | be able to handle some situations (e.g. a week where all days
           | have more contributions than the "level" it's currently
           | eating would block it from getting to the other side of the
           | "playfield"). Still, there probably are some situations where
           | it can't reach all the dots?
        
             | yoz-y wrote:
             | It looks like it prefers to eat cells in order but it can
             | eat them out of order if going in order is impossible. I
             | assume the timeline under the game is there to show how
             | well it's doing.
        
               | platane wrote:
               | Those are the rules indeed.
        
           | darkwater wrote:
           | Also sometimes it eats darker spots before all the lighter
           | are gone. Not sure if this is something permitted by the
           | solving algorithm description [1]
           | 
           | Anyway, fun experiment.
           | 
           | [1] https://github.com/Platane/snk/blob/main/packages/solver/
           | REA...
        
           | fmbb wrote:
           | Fork it.
        
         | platane wrote:
         | It was the plan at some point. But it was a bit too hard to
         | solve. (author here)
        
       | mynameisnoone wrote:
       | _It ate my commit!_
        
         | quickthrower2 wrote:
         | Only likes Python commits
        
           | Hamuko wrote:
           | Isn't that cannibalism?
        
             | spand wrote:
             | Python is not named after the snake
             | (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python)
        
               | areynolds8787 wrote:
               | But it has two snakes on its logo ;)
        
               | rob74 wrote:
               | Ok, it's named after a show named after an (imaginary)
               | person named after the snake.
        
       | tipiirai wrote:
       | Love this!
        
       | geordee wrote:
       | You could rewind it too.
        
       | panki27 wrote:
       | Could be worked into a Santa delivering presents to houses :)
        
       | low_tech_love wrote:
       | Is it a coincidence that the username is an anagram of "at
       | plane"...?
        
       | 1231232131231 wrote:
       | CORS Error:
       | 
       | Access to fetch at 'https://snk-one.vercel.app/api/github-user-
       | contribution/gith...' from origin 'https://platane.github.io' has
       | been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin'
       | header is present on the requested resource. If an opaque
       | response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors'
       | to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.
        
         | platane wrote:
         | yep it uses my github token to retrieve the calendar from the
         | github api.
         | 
         | It seems like the traffic from HN eats my quota pretty fast!
        
       | platane wrote:
       | Hi, I am the author. Thanks for submitting!
        
         | dr_kiszonka wrote:
         | Very creative project, easy to use, and a great read me. Please
         | don't get discouraged by others' negative comments.
        
       | webprofusion wrote:
       | Needs a share button and the animation doesn't play on it's own
       | (I have to drag the scroll bar). Pretty cool though!
        
       | awill88 wrote:
       | Great job!
        
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