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		franciscop on March 24, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Require-from-Twitter For everyone who doesn't know it, there's a project called http://140byt.es/ compiling many code snippets that fit in a tweet (; There was also a clever trick to compress/uncompress ascii text by using base[huge number] or something like that (full unicode) so it could be uploaded to twitter, but I don't remember the exact number

Retr0spectrum on March 24, 2016 [–]

https://github.com/ferno/base65536

franciscop on March 24, 2016 | | [–]

Awesome! thanks, also here's the reasoning from the Why? [1]

> I wanted people to be able to share HATETRIS replays via Twitter.

> Twitter supports tweets of up to 140 characters. "Tweet length is measured by the number of codepoints in the NFC normalized version of the text."

[1] https://github.com/ferno/base65536#why

chirau on March 24, 2016 | | [–]

What does the code in the parent post do?

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