this gets discussed, or at least mentioned, often on hn, e.g.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28651093 (this very faq)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40773880 (jart's commit)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40605970 (tom7's gnujpl)

and bonus: recently i've been enjoying http://arlyle.sdf.org/

(unfortunately, links do not work in preformatted text on hn)

"I could totally hear the first one in singing form"

Thanks to AI, now you can.[1]

[1] https://suno.com/song/22f52bca-7119-4aac-8f0a-5daf9afa509d

(Also an amusing waste of time. Here's "a religious folk song in the format of a Cisco configuration file": https://suno.com/song/536fe16f-079c-4cce-921c-c2518f6dedb6 )

> unfortunately

Don't worry; I pasted your words

into vi just to experience their

fully justified bricktext glory.

Wow, this is wild! Maintaining perfect justification solely through word choice is... quite a writing constraint, lol. I don't think I've seen this done before.

I betcha it wasn’t perfectly through word choice alone as I can think of a few “tricks” that could be deployed undetectably.

Like what? I would think you could hide much in mono ASCII.

This is why the internet exists.

Incredible catharsis. Love it.

I would be even more impressed if the TOC and changelog followed the same layout.