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Cody Boone Ferguson 41abeda97a Slight change in 'greater challenge' line
In the line in README.md and index.html files that said:

    ### NOTICE to those who wish for a greater challenge

I added a ':' at the end of the line.

There were some entries that had a link fix in the index.html file but I
only looked up through 1995/leo as those still have to have a 'look and
feel' check and it would just slow things down.
2024-07-09 11:06:20 -07:00
Landon Curt Noll 2e2ae5f132 add notices to those who wish for a greater challenge
We add the following level-3 header to help people identify text
they may wish to skip if they wish for a greater challenge:

```
```

After that notice we add:

```
**If you want a greater challenge, don't read any further**:
just try to understand the program via the source.

If you get stuck, come back and read below for additional hints and information.
```

And sometimes follow with:

```
```

Or sometimes follow with:

```
```

Where the alt code impacts a "greater challenge", we add instead:

```
**If you want a greater challenge, don't read any further**:
just try to understand the program without looking at the Alternate code.

If you get stuck, come back and look at the Alternate code.
```

And where a given command impacts a "greater challenge", we add instead:

```
**If you want a greater challenge, don't read any further**:
just try to understand the program without running the command below.

If you get stuck, come back and run the following command:
```

Perform `make www` to perform the above and test under macOS.
2024-07-07 00:25:20 -07:00
Cody Boone Ferguson 1ac055fa85 Reword the recent deobfuscation changes
In most cases the word was changed to 'obfuscation' as it was about
obfuscation, not deobfuscation. In some cases like 1995/leo since the
file was (in 1995/leo) about a secret switch it was changed to
'secret.md' (and 'secret.html') but there were others like that as well.

One entry had the words 'spoiling the size rule' but this had been
changed to 'deobfuscating the size rule' which was obviously wrong.

In the latter YYYY/README.md files the judges had written after some
entries (brief summaries) '...

    ...We'll stop spouting spoilers now. Have fun exploring all the
    entries!

but that was changed to:

    ...We'll stop spouting deobfuscation information now. Have fun
    exploring all the entries!

which wasn't really about deobfuscation but just a brief summary of what
the entries did.

And in the most problematic case (at least for me :-), 2018/ferguson) I
had put a joke in:

    ... but it's the only Easter egg I won't spoil

but it was changed to 'won't deobfuscate' which not only is not what it
is but it spoilt the joke.

In some cases the word was changed back to 'SPOILER' (or similar) but in
most cases not. I believe it should be better now. There are some
caveats, however, as below.

Although make find_missing_links is okay I do not remember if this will
catch links that refer to '%%REPO_URL%%' or other pandoc tokens. This
means I might have to go back to some earlier years to verify links are
okay. That should not take that much time I hope.

It might also be that some wording can still be improved some but it is
hoped this will be discovered when checking links and looking over the
manifest (which obviously changed).
2024-07-04 09:03:45 -07:00