This did involve updates to news.{md,html} and years.html. The prize in
diabolical logistics now reflects the title of the game and the prize in
yil-tas has a capitalisation fix (that was missed yesterday).
Also reworded some of the text of 2024/ferguson1/index.html.
We swapped `2024/anders` and `2024/straadt` by accident.
Sorry (tm Canada 🇨🇦) about that!
We **SINCERELY APOLOGIZE** to both **Anders Kaare Straadt**
and **Sebastian Macke** for the mix up!
We normalized some of the `.gitignore` files for some
of the 2024 winning entries.
Rebuilt 2024 tar files.
Updated `sitemap.xml`.
Ran `make update` to perform the above.
Congratulations to:
* 2024/anders - Prize in sound coding - layered music generator
* 2024/burton - Prize in pentagrammatology - wordle hard mode solver
* 2024/cable1 - Prize in bot talk - LLM inference engine
* 2024/cable2 - Prize in murky waters - salmon recipe
* 2024/carlini - Prize in perfect timing - Intel 4004 emulation
* 2024/codemeow - Prize in tray planting - bonsai generator
* 2024/endoh1 - Prize in patient pointillism - slow ray tracer in CPP
* 2024/endoh2 - Prize in solid body physics - rotating rigid body simulation
* 2024/ferguson1 - Prize in diabolical logistics - Oregon trail pact with the devil
* 2024/ferguson2 - Prize in yil-tas - Navajo code talker translator
* 2024/howe - Nice accent eh-ward - mini vi
* 2024/kramer - Prize in linguistic arithmetic - natural language numerical calculator
* 2024/kurdyukov1 - Prize in phased periodicity - phase of the Moon
* 2024/kurdyukov2 - Prize in art restoration - JPEG artifact removal
* 2024/kurdyukov3 - Prize in virtual quietus - gaming VM and doom
* 2024/kurdyukov4 - Prize in embiggening - encode without literals
* 2024/maffiodo - Prize in creative interpretation - Jav\*script interpreter
* 2024/mills - Prize in ℤ₃ - Infocom v3 story interpreter
* 2024/stedolan - Best one liner - icon from MD5
* 2024/straadt - Prize in imitative rebooting - OpenRISC CPU and Linux
* 2024/tmarrec - Prize in cyclonic coding - 3D tornado simulation
* 2024/tompng - Prize in quasi bijection - vortex encryptor decryptor
* 2024/weaver - Sur prize - rickroll
Ran `make update` to perform the above.
new file: 2024/burton/.entry.json
Prepare for the winners of **IOCCC28**.
> However these are not the 2024 droids you are looking for. :-)
The HTML menu (both JavaScript and non-JavaScript) has been updated.
The `Status -> Rules and guidelines' have been replaced with two
separate menus `Status -> IOCCC rules` and `Status -> IOCCC guidelines`.
Added a new top level `social.html` page: built from a new `social.md`.
Sorted rules for building specific web pages in the top level `Makefile`.
Added `make social` to make the `social.html` page from `social.md`.
The `bin/gen-top-html.sh` now is able to process a argument of **social**
to process the new top level `social.html` page.
Changed `bin/gen-top-html.sh` VERSION from "2.0.0 2025-03-13"
to "2.0.1 2025-07-25".
Below `About -> Home page` a new `About -> IOCCC social media` menu item
as added.
Because the menu change touched every HTML file, we changed the general
copyright date range for HTML files from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025"
due to the extensive changes made for **IOCCC28**.
Those markdown files that were modified in 2025 had their copyright date
range also changed from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025".
Rebuilt tarballs and sitemap due to the extensive HTML rebuilding.
Ran `make update` to perform the above.
We add `make clang-format` to the Makefile tree.
Add `important disclaimers about contest status` link to `status.html`.
Update `years.html` due to recent commit that fixed typo for abstract of 2011/akari.
Improve `template/README.md.year` for future IOCCC contents.
Ran `make quick_www` to perform the above.
The `bin/gen-years.sh` has been updated to include the abstract of the
winning entry.
Changed `bin/gen-years.sh` VERSION from "2.1.1 2025-06-06"
ta "2.2.0 2025-07-10".
Ran `make gen_years timestamp` to perform the above.
Fixed heading title for "Support the IOCCC" block in `years.html`.
Changed `bin/gen-years.sh` VERSION from "2.1.0 2025-06-06"
to "2.1.1 2025-06-06".
Update sitemap.
Tested the above via `make gen_years timestamp` on macOS.
Changed "Support IOCCC" heading to "Support the IOCCC".
Use HTML blockquote instead of markdown quote for the "Support the IOCCC"
and "IOCCC on Social Media" HTML code blocks.
Added "Support the IOCCC" and "IOCCC on Social Media" to the
top level `index.html` page, the top level `news.html` page and
the top level `years.html` page.
Changed `bin/gen-years.sh` VERSION from "2.0.0 2025-03-13"
to "2.1.0 2025-06-06".
Update sitemap.
Tested the above via `make gen_top_html gen_years timestamp` on macOS.
The menu in all html pages for the FAQ was fixed to link to the step 0
(of how to enter the contest) and also it was renamed ('Enter the
IOCCC').
I also went through the most important sections of the FAQ (how to
enter and the mkiocccentry related questions) and checked the
register.html, pw-change.html and submit.html pages. It is possible I
have missed something but I think it's in pretty good shape nonetheless.
We move the "_Thanks for the help_" out from under the "Entries"
menu and under the "About" menu to better balance the menus.
Besides, "_Thanks for the help_" is more **about** the IOCCC itself.
The sections have been modified a fair amount. The Entries menu has been
extended to have: Fixing entries, Updating author info, Thanks for the
help. The first two were moved from FAQ and the last one from About.
The rationale for these, in order: entries and authors have to do with
entries and most of the help involves entries. It also has to do with
website but in 'about' it does not seem the right place, unless maybe it
is renamed to 'Credits' or something (I am not suggesting this one way
or the other). This one is debatable but that was the rationale.
The Status menu has been extended to have: Markdown guidelines and
Security policy. The rationale is that the markdown guidelines are part
of contest guidelines and the security policy is about the status of the
entries and how if there are any security problems they will not be
addressed (instead of about the IOCCC).
The FAQ was extended to have: Compiling entries, Running entries, How to
help. The reason to not have compiling and running entries under Entries
is because this is 'how to' and also the menu was too long. How to help
seems like a good idea under FAQ too (was in About).
About was extended to have the new 'about.html' page (from about.md).
This is a rare case where a new file is useful as it fits under 'About'.
The menu now is: Home page, About the IOCCC, The Judges, Contact us. I
was pondering the 'About [the IOCCC]' at the top and also naming it
'About us' but it seemed like a link to index.html was necessary and as
for 'about us' it seemed less clear as to whether it was about the
judges or the contest itself. The FAQ has been updated slightly for
this.
After further inspection the bin/index.html and the inc/index.html links
were removed from the about section.
With these changes, renaming an item or slight reordering
notwithstanding, I believe that #2006 is probably in good shape.
The mobile About menu was missing the IOCCC markdown guidelines. This
has been added to the mobile menu but moved to 'Status' which is where
guidelines are (it has been renamed to be 'IOCCC Markdown Guidelines' to
match the style of the other items in that menu).
The About menu now has two more links, one for the website tools and the
other for the include files of the tools. It might be, looking at the
generated html files, better to have another menu instead, but what that
should be is unclear. The reason it might be better is because the
'About' menu is rather long. In retrospect it might be better to not
have the script include files in the html files but this can be decided
and dealt with later.
The script bin/find-missing-links.sh now ignores the directory NOTES/. A
better approach might be using git ls-files --exclude but a quick test
did not work right. Another option, at least for NOTES/, might be to use
'git ls-files --exclude-standard'.
The bin/index.html file has been updated.
Run make www to rebuild all html files.
A number of question answers have been merged and shortened somewhat.
Fix link in the menu of all html pages and the inc/ files that was
broken due to renaming an anchor.
The guidelines and rules have had a link fix (to the FAQ) as well as
some additional points added about the mkiocccentry toolkit.
More work in the FAQ needs to be done, including with the how to enter
the IOCCC, but as so much work has been done already I have decided to
make the commit to get these many important changes out of the way.
The location of the link is in the About menu under the 'Contacting the
IOCCC' and above 'Thanks for the help'. At first I had it at the very
bottom, under 'IOCCC markdown guidelines', but it seemed better to have
it closer to contacting the IOCCC. This is the same location in the no
JavaScript menu (which, for those who do not know or forget, is not a
requirement except for some screen sizes).
The top level Makefile has a new 'security' rule. Updated make help.
Typo fixes in make help.
SECURITY.html has had a few updates as well: change the wording of entry
code is unsupported (it now says 'ALL CODE IN ALL IOCCC ENTRIES IS
UNSUPPORTED!!') and it now links to the mkiocccentry repo and how to
report a possible security vulnerability in that repo; as that IS
supported - and since there was reference to discussing security
concerns is in SECURITY.html - even though the entries will not receive
security updates - it seemed a good idea to have a link to report such
security issues in the mkiocccentry repo. Perhaps the FAQ needs to be
updated for this too.
While the use of `**font-weight: bold;` helps links standout in
most cases, there a few "_link heavy_" pages were the **MANY BOLD
LINK IN CLOSE PROXIMITY** looks excessive to the point of being
distracting. In areas where **nearly everything is BOLD, nothing
seems to stand out**.
Fortunately there seems to be only a very few places where this is a problem:
* `faq.html` - the table of contents
* `authors.html` - nearly the entire page
* `location.html` - nearly the entire page
* `years.html` - nearly the entire page
As an **bold** 😎 experiment we added to the CSS:
```css
/*
* To make a link non-bold, use: <a class="normal" href="url">link text</a>
*/
a.normal {
font-weight: normal;
}
```
And then modified select tools and a markdown file to "_unbold_"
those "_link heavy_" areas of the 4 pages above.
We don't claim that this is the best solution and there may be an
even better way to solve this, nevertheless we **do** think the it
improves the look and feel of the "_link heavy_" areas of the 4
pages above. For example, in `faq.html` beyond the table of
contents, the bold links look reasonable (although again there are
some quasi-"_link heavy_" areas down in the page look a bit too
bold, but perhaps not enough to warrant changing so we only altered
the table of contents).
In a few cases, while we were editing code that generated links,
we remove a few "**.**"'s where we didn't think they helped the
look and feel.
Change `bin/gen-authors.sh` VERSION from "1.10.3 2024-05-24"
to "1.10.4 2024-07-13".
Change `bin/gen-location.sh` VERSION from "1.4.2 2024-05-19"
to "1.4.3 2024-07-13".
Change `bin/gen-years.sh` VERSION from "1.3.3 2024-07-07"
to "1.3.4 2024-07-13".
Performed `make www` to accomplish the above and to test under macOS.
While not strictly necessary, replacing the two ASCII tab characters
in the markdown copyright comment makes it easier to detect problematic
TAB indentation within markdown files.
After this commit, only 90 markdown files have leading ASCII TAB
characters. And again, while not strictly necessary, we can consider
running expand on those 90 markdown files to see what effect that
might have on the HTML files they produce.
Replace leading ASCII TAB characters with multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE
characters (the default action of the `expand(1)` tool) might have
an negative effect on some HTML formatting where **hack-a-round**
formatting was attempted to fix broken indentation caused by
problematic ASCII TAB characters.
Think of this as a baseline for evaluating leading
TAB characters within markdown files.
TODO: Consider either using `expand(1)` to replace leading ASCII
TAB characters with multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters AND/OR
modifying the appropriate `bin` tool to convert leading ASCII TAB
characters into multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters.
It should be 'Location of winning authors' (as it is now) but by mistake
there was an extra space ('Location of winning authors'). Obviously
this is a huge commit as every html file with a menu (almost all) had to
be updated.
A few page names were changed and menu link (titles) were changed too.
By page names it means either DESCRIPTION or HEADER_2 in
bin/md2html.cfg. Although it looks better and is more consistent, there
might be one or two that can be further improved.
Naturally every html file that is markdown based was updated.
This is a very large commit not only because I forgot to run make www
after updating the menus but I also forgot to do that after the update
to some of the award titles (only quick-readme2index.sh was used).
There is a typo fix in bin/README.md.
This commit does mean that md2html.cfg has to be added to bin/README.md
but that can be done later.
The steps run to verify this works okay:
make www
git status
git diff
git add -u
make update
git status
git restore $(git check)
The last is important as it is not time for make update. 'git check' is
an alias:
git diff --name-only
There was a typo which had Homer''s instead of Homer's. This has been
corrected in the tmp/year_prize.numbers, tmp/year_prize.csv,
2006/sloane/.entry.json, 2006/sloane/index.html and years.html files.
The links in the html file now are a bit more consistent in form and
the titles make a bit more sense.
By that I mean that it used to be that it would say 'About the 1st IOCCC' but only '1st IOCCC' was a link
and 'About' was bold but now it's all bold and now it's all a link (to suggest that the link is actually about
the first IOCCC). The download links were also improved in this way and
they now say 'winning entries' rather than say (for 1984) '1984 entry
source' (that was for all entries). Also, since it would otherwise say
something like:
...
Download all 1985 IOCCC winning entries.
Download all 1984 IOCCC winning entries.
I reworded it to say:
...
Download all IOCCC winning entries of 1985.
Download all IOCCC winning entries of 1984.
As other link titles were in bold in the file now each entry link is in
bold as well and so is the title - to help it stand out a bit better. I
am not quite sure about the bold title yet but the link should be bold
anyway to match others. I think the bold title does seem like a good
idea though.
Rebuilt years.html.
Note that most of the links have been checked in this file but I will
look at each entry link again as I verify links and formatting in the
entries' html files.
This fixes an inconsistency in case. The spreadsheet in tmp,
year_prize.numbers and the year_prize.csv files were updated also (with
the ./fix_csv.sh run under tmp/).
There was no need to manually update the index.html, any other html
files or .entry.json files as I used sgit(1) to change the case.
We make better use of the rel HTML attribute.
We format the inc/footer.default.html so that it is a
slightly easier to read.
Ran `make www` to perform test the above under macOS.
For browsers that have JavaScript disabled, topbar puts up
a link that reads "Please Enable JavaScript" instead of the
so-called "hamburger menu" icon.
Fixed a number of internal links that were broken
when by commit `e7d69bc23270e8ad73d391d15d4c996ffbd33cc3 and
perhaps a few other earlier commits.
Ran `make www` to perform the above.
The icons used to show the menu open (`png/hamburger-icon-open.png`)
and closed (`png/hamburger-icon-closed.png`) have been added.
Changed `inc/topbar.default.html` to use the png icons instead
of a svg file.
A new page `nojs-menu.html` has been added for when
JavaScript is disabled.
Changed `bin/gen-top-html.sh` VERSION from to "1.4.4 2024-04-21"
to "1.4.5 2024-04-23".
Sorted top sections in `inc/md2html.cfg` and added
a section for `nojs-menu.md`.
Fixed `ioccc.css` so that the topbar and related pulldown
menus had the correct background colour.
Ran `make www` to perform the above.
TODO: Detect when JavaScript is disabled and display:
Please
Enable
JavaScript
As a link to the new `nojs-menu.html` page.
TODO: Fix a problem on wide screens where some of
the righthand edge pulldown menus are cutoff.
TODO: Fix the 5 HTML 5 errors introduced by the topbar code.
The topbar, by way of JavaScript, now works
on mobile devices such as cell phones and
tablets.
Internal links for entries from 1984 thru 2015
have been adjusted.
Ran `make www` to perform the above.
TODO: Fix some color issues on topbar.
TODO: More testing!
All entries listed in `years.html` now have a link
so that historic links to _years.html#entry_id_ will work.
**IMPORTANT NOTE**: We do this for backward compatibility only.
When linking to an entry, it is **much better and more useful**
to link to _YYYY/dir/index.html_ instead.
Changed `bin/gen-years.sh` VERSION from "1.2 2024-04-15"
to "1.3 2024-04-21".
Run `make gen_years` to perform the above.
The `1992/buzzard.2/buzzard.2.README.md` has been improved
so that links to files that is referenced are
directed to the proper web pages (web site or GitHub).
Links in `1992/buzzard.2/buzzard.2.README.md` markdown
files have been changed to the generated HTML files.
Changed `bin/gen-other-html.sh` VERSION from to "1.0.4 2024-04-13"
to "1.1 2024-04-20".
By default, we substitute _%%REPO_URL%%_ and _%%SITE_URL%%_
in inc files.
Changed `bin/subst.default.sh` VERSION from to "1.2.3 2024-04-13"
to "1.3 2024-04-20".
All `-s TOKEN=value` substitutions are applied to all markdown files
that are processed by `bin/md2html.sh`.
Substitutions of and **%%TOKEN%%** are performed on included HTML
content, content generated by the ‘before tool’ (-b tool), content
generated by the ‘after tool’ (-a tool), as well as the markdown
content given to the pandoc wrapper tool (-p tool).
It is an error, unless -S is given, for any phase, except HTML phases
20-29, to not substitute all **%%TOKEN%%**'s. For HTML phases 20-29, any
**%%TOKEN%%** that is not substituted are passed thru without substitution.
Update `bin/index.html` to clarify
Changed `bin/md2html.sh` VERSION from to "1.4 2024-04-18"
to "1.5 2024-04-20".
Fix the _BEFORE: 1st line of markdown file_ and _AFTER: last line
of markdown file_ HTML comments so that the true markdown file
source (not some temporary file) is identified. This prevents
`authors.html`, `location.html` and `years.html` from always changing
due to different temporary files being used on each run.
Run `make www` to perform the above.
Add "<!-- BEFORE: 1st line of markdown file: FILE/PATH -->"
before the markdown content. This line appears in the
generated HTML.
Add "<!-- AFTER: last line of markdown file: FILE/PATH -->"
after the markdown content. This line appears in the
generated HTML.
We test a fix relating to problems produced by `pandoc(1)`
when footnotes are added at the end of generated HTML.
This test is made for `2000/bmeyer/index.html`.
Fixed exit 4 in `bin/md2html.sh that should be exit 5.
Changed `bin/md2html.sh` VERSION from to "1.3 2024-04-14"
to "1.4 2024-04-18".
Run `bin/readme2index.sh -v 1 2000/bmeyer` to perform the above.
We added a checkmark all narbar's that has the make effect of
clicking on the **Nu HTML check this web page** link at the very
bottom. This makes it much more convenient when one needs
to quickly check the HTML of a number of web pages.
Run `make www` to perform the above.
Thank you, @chris-sab, for your excellent work and for helping us
commit this alpha version of the topbar.
As part of this work, the following HTML sections were removed:
* begin-row
* begin-leftcolumn
* sidenav
* end-leftcolumn
* begin-rightcolumn
* before-content
* end-rightcolumn
* end-row.default
Also added a new HTML section, just above the "header" section:
* topbar
The web site now as a more modern looking topbar, thanks to the
work of the contractor (GitHub user @chris-sab) who is working on
issue #2273.
Performed `make www` to implement the above and test under macOS.
TODO: Fix the Responsive Web Design to deal with
the new topbar system.
TODO: Improve the topbar. What is there now is
just an alpha version.
TODO: Decide what to do with `png/ioccc.png`.
Remove it make selective use of the image on certain top level
pages lower down?
TODO: The changes to `ioccc.css` causes some
formatting problems with pages such as `location.html` (missing
blank lines). Fix formatting problems as needed.
TODO: Fix the "Nu HTML check this web page"
links on things like the year level _YYYY/index.html_ pages.
TODO: Correct all HTML errors, warnings and perhaps
informative messages from the Nu HTML check.
TODO: Consider adding color (colour) to the
web pages in such a way that people with color perception
challenges can still use the web site.
TODO: For those web browsers that have and allow
JavaScript, make use of technology such as [Code
Mirror](https://codemirror.net/) to directly render source
code (C, shell, Makefile, etc.) with syntax coloring (colouring)
directly in the browser. For non-JavaScript browsers, fallback
to the current use of GitHub source code viewing.
Cody Boone Ferguson