An Invitation to TRICK: How to write weird Ruby programs
summary
Showcases a dozen winning TRICK entries and the exact tricks that make them work so viewers know what they’d learn: a rotating quine that yields new source every exec and returns after eight runs, a self‑repairing 960‑frame ASCII animation using error‑correction and staged state quines, a pangram that uses every printable character once and __LINE__ to read code, an executable list of Ruby keywords built via keyword tricks, and a piano program that generates sound and screencast output.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Weird Ruby programs
- 3:48Introduction
- 7:05What is TRICK
- 8:10Rotating Quine with ASCII art
- 13:42Animated fish with error correction
- 17:25Non-Quine TRICK entries
- 17:49Pangram award program
- 19:37Most reserved award
- 21:05Anti-gravity program
- 26:02TRICK contest details
- 27:03Closing demo with piano
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