The Art of the Bodge: How I Made The Emoji Keyboard

[@colinfurze]

Was a pleasure working with you tom. I've still got the brown leather we used on the horse bot, a metal detector from the treasurebot and ski willy. Stupid TV schedules they can do one.

[@TechyBen]

+colinfurze Never knew you lot got together, or you had a TV show. Wow. Gotta get on to watching that one!!!

[@playbackeverything1760]

I didn't know you were working with him

[@lovecastle7154]

+colinfurze have you built the bunker yet?

[@systemvoid287]

+Alan Kong I remember that show ._.

[@kholoudkhelo4886]

6اا ن9

[@Aguycalledmax]

"I didn't study Computer Science, I'm not writing elegant solutions" Me, a computer science grad: Oh, is that what I was meant to be doing?

[@Skidoodle18]

Hi! I’m considering majoring in CS when I go to college, mind if I ask a question or two?

[@joshuaduplaa9033]

@@Skidoodle18 what's your question bud? Current junior in cs

[@Skidoodle18]

@@joshuaduplaa9033 What are some skills I can start teaching myself now to prepare?

[@stevanmiladinovic4007]

@@Skidoodle18 basics of coding, logical thinking, etc.

[@nerd_nato564]

@@stevanmiladinovic4007 Also mental resilience. That one's super important for coding.

[@BigBahss]

Tom's upset that it took him a whole half-hour to solve a coding problem while I'm thinking "That only took you half an hour? Kudos."

[@oktayyildirim2911]

No kidding; I've recently been learning GDScript for game development, and it sometimes takes me more than 2 hours to get past a single stump. And I never notice how long it's taking when I'm working through it, because I guess I'm too busy focusing on trial-and-error.

[@andstriker]

@@oktayyildirim2911 Godot script? That's a strange one. I'm assuming you're a beginner since I believe the engine is tailored for that audience? I started out with good ol' Unity and C# so that script seems very alien to me lul.

[@simmerthesauce9228]

@mane I recently went to godot from 3 yrs of unity

[@randomgoose01]

Fuk me took me a whole afternoon to realise I put break at the wrong place ..

[@dadadaddyoo]

Kudos is right! I once spent at least 45 minutes pouring over some non-working code only to find I had left out a single period. Code can be SO unforgiving.

[@grim66]

I started genuinely laughing at "saves it to a file on disk", I was like "oh you set up a sort of API between autohotkey and lua" -- no, saved to a file on disk. That's amazing.

[@satan69]

i have no idea what you said but this made me smile

[@buca117]

@@satan69 APIs allow programs to directly access other programs. When you log into Facebook on your phone, the app stored locally on your phone needs to connect to the database software on Facebook's servers in order to authenticate you and eventually display the database's contents in the app's window. This is done through an API, or Application Programming Interface. Essentially a collection of things one program is allowed access to have another program do for it. That would look like his LuaMacro code asking AutoHotKey to translate the input they just received into plain text, then taking that translation back and finally inputting it into the textbox. Tom's solution was to not bother trying to get the two programs to talk directly to each other (which would be a lot of work for almost no benefit) and to simply have them work independently by doing the equivalent of sticking an anonymous note under a park bench to let your handler know the nuclear codes will be exchanged at 11pm at the docks and hoping the guy knows what to do with that information.

[@henrydorsett6076]

ofc that way. wiring lua up with ahk (shudder) would break the art of the bodge :D

[@flannolman8100]

Saving to disk, over an API, is simpler, stupider, less elegant solution... essentially, a bodge.

[@joshbishop4870]

That’s the bodge xD

[@sambomacho1]

Best bodging story I ever heard of was when Supermarine were prototyping the Spitfire. They used smooth headed rivets but when the prototyping stage was nearly complete and they had achieved their targets for speed and maneuverability, flight ceiling, climb rate etc etc etc they realised that for time and cost restraints when it went into full production the production line would be using dome headed rivets. The limited knowledge of aerodynamics at the time they had combined with no computer modeling etc meant they realised it would have an effect but they didnt know what that effect would be. War was looming and they didnt have time to take the prototype to pieces and put it back together again (possibly multiple times) to investigate what the effect would be and how to overcome it what they did was...glued split chick peas to the rivets for testing and after a little trial and error found out that as long as the peas/rivets were aligned correctly with each other and mostly symmetrically the performance of the aircraft wasnt noticeably affected detrimentally and the precious top speed remained the same. Great British chic-pea based bodge

[@renakunisaki]

Reminds me of how they test airplane windshields for their ability to withstand bird impacts. A bunch of complex modeling and simulation? Nah, just fire a raw chicken out of a cannon at it! (yes they do _also_ use models and simulations but that's less funny)

[@RobertSzasz]

@@renakunisaki always remember to thaw the chicken

[@christopherleveck6835]

@@RobertSzasz or freeze the windshield

[@BuildYourOwnBass]

Brit Dal Bit Bodge

[@zcamt]

5:18 - "There's a joke that won't date well" Well, you see... this is gonna be a little weird to explain....

[@evanwarren4083]

Even more weird

[@NathSb]

Narrator: "It got worse."

[@austinh1242]

Definitely didn't age well recently...

[@xmlthegreat]

Um, oops?

[@zcamt]

6 months later, and I have to say... it got a lot worse... and a lot harder to explain

[@scptime1188]

Fun fact about emoji: it is etymologically unrelated to the word "emoticon". Emoticon is a combination of the words "emotion" and "icon", whilst emoji is a combination of the Japanese words "e", meaning picture, and "moji", meaning character.

[@julianmjk5120]

Oh I didn't know that, but always wondered, thanks for the knowledge!

[@nanashi7756]

etymologically*

[@powerofthec5908]

Thanks for the fact person with profile picture that looks like a weird Goat!

[@williamshakespeare987]

*E* ?

[@ananttiwari1337]

@@williamshakespeare987 moji!

[@Benny_Blue]

Tom: "Lua is a programming language that's weird, but not that weird." Also Tom: "Lua starts counting from 1."

[@tnttale6637]

Hey lua is good i use lua a Lot

[@bageldogm]

i tried using lua once. Enough said about that.

[@palmberry5576]

Lua is js if it was less cursed the only thing holding it back is the lack of keywords for handling prototype (or in lua’s case, metatable.__index) classes

[@lxdixd]

lua’s metatables are scary af. i tried to code a complex game script and it felt like genuine wizardry

[@algotkristoffersson15]

because thats how counting works IRL, thats why

[@DZrache]

"There's a joke that won't age well." *Checks upload date* *'Curb Your Enthusiasm' theme plays softly in the background*

[@goose7938]

*One Year Later* "IT'S JUST KEEPS GETTING LOUDER WTF"

[@JazzyWaffles]

Same tbh

[@AdamChristensen]

5:15 🤯

[@MetaBloxer]

I had no idea what that was called or why that theme was used thank you

[@acasualescapedscp4418]

Checks out

[@blakehawkins3296]

“Thats right there’s and f24 key...” *looks at keyboard* “...but it most certainly isn’t on your keyboard.” *dreams crushed*

[@43615]

don't worry, holding down shift will add 12 to the number so shift+f12 is f24 and also f22 (shift+f10) is equivalent to the option key (to the left of r.ctrl)

[@creaturedanaaaaa]

IBM Model F122 time

[@N1c0_792]

F in chat

[@lemon3rd800]

@@creaturedanaaaaa Yup, was thinking of the same keyboard because I've seen that model before - it's fairly expensive though

[@C4FF31N3]

ibm battleship moments

[@madumlao]

"And then writes it to a file on disk" wow that is maximum bodge now

[@camiloaa]

We call it "advanced engineering" where I come from.

[@denoww9261]

right? i was with everything up until this

[@liesdamnlies3372]

To be fair...the I/O should be very itty-bitty. I mean, it’s not like anyone would just mash keys randomly, right? ...right?

[@douwehuysmans5959]

Unless it was a tmp folder

[@liranpiade4499]

I bridged a python script and an Apache server using text files for a semester 1 uni project 😂

[@withertoneultraluxxx]

The “no” in response to hypothetical requests to use Linux is still one of my favorite Tom Scott moments to this day.

[@phentas]

I came here for this 🤣

[@SioxerNikita]

A lot of people have this "Worship" of Linux, it is REALLY good, for certain stuff. Not everything.

[@ictoan1880]

@@SioxerNikita alright but how is this one of the things linux is bad at? Device files exist specifically to enable the flexibility to do stuff like this. Each of the 14 keyboards will have an entry in /dev/input/, read from those with a (probably pre installed) simple program and you've immediately accomplished the task that most of this video explains how to work around on windows

[@SioxerNikita]

@@ictoan1880 I was commenting on Linux in general, not for this specific thing. Linux is an amazing OS, but not for everything. If it ever became amazing for everything, it'd have the same issues as Windows.

[@Tuepp]

​@@SioxerNikitaActually not exactly. Think about the cuts of on Windows Home they only make to sell the more expensive Windows Professional. Or the Driver support, where hardware suppliers just develop for one system and take the most populare one and so on. It's simply lazyness to think Linux systems couldn't replace Windows completely, when software including drivers would only be written for it primarily...

[@WindingDreams]

"Someone will have done this before" Is basically how to learn to code

[@williamduncan7401]

No.

[@williamduncan7401]

@F r i c k I'm far past learning, but tell me, how would you learn by not doing anything?

[@phantoids]

@@williamduncan7401 I can verify, as someone taking computer science, that half of my learning when it comes to my programming is through finding stuff on stackoverflow. I don't know it? Someone else will have done it before. I can then take that code, figure it out and apply it later. It's like formulas; you can know them, but if you don't understand you can't apply it. You can know code, but understanding it helps you apply it later by looking at examples to learn.

[@williamduncan7401]

@@phantoids as a professional full stack developer, I can verify that as well. However, finding answers on SO doesn't mean copy-pasting code, but actually reading some plain English explaining the solution. And if you're copying code that you do not understand, then most likely problems will occur later on and you won't understand them either.

[@beefy420]

@@williamduncan7401 Sometimes it does mean copy-pasting code. There are code solutions that don't need altering to work.

[@123seven3]

"That joke's not going to age well" 2020: Well, actually....

[@zacharytalarico7250]

@@tthung8668 why is this showing up now

[@jamesp.sullivan5124]

@The Yangem 5:15

[@Coldheart322]

@123seven3 Thanks, I giggled at that, came to comment and you had already made it for me :-p

[@trippprofant8747]

Was about to say the same thing

[@Unicr0nNidAaz]

See you in 100 years when you look stupid

[@rwantare1]

That No for Linux caught me off guard and made me feel like a small child that's been told No by their dad.

[@bakdiabderrahmane8009]

same hahaha

[@scottbuchanan8300]

@@robertkiestov3734 bruh

[@robertkiestov3734]

Scott Buchanan Any so-called “programmer” who advises against Linux doesn’t know a single thing they’re talking about and should be discredited against further discussion

[@awildfilingcabinet6239]

Robert Kiestov and anybody who believes that someone’s entire argument is invalid because they have a differing opinion is a scummy person who you should ignore because they seem to think insulting other people makes them look cooler

[@AstoundingAmelia]

@@metrixel1488 only a few are, most of us are good people

[@gilpo]

"Because Lua, unlike every other programming language in modern times, counts from 1 and not from 0." *laughs in MATLAB*

[@tatianatub]

MATLAB is just a graphing calculator on steroids

[@gilpo]

@@tatianatub the only difference being that graphing calculators don't crash as often

[@ananttiwari1337]

@@gilpo BAHAHHAHAHA

[@cricksol]

laughs in python!

[@deathsins6008]

@@cricksol What do you mean? Python counts from 0 like most commonly used programming languages not from 1.

[@em__1]

5 years down the line, and one thing never changes. *One take!*

[@ajs41]

He uses a teleprompter. He admitted it in a recent video.

[@hii-people2245]

@@ajs41 which one I don’t think I’ve seen that video

[@AlphaGeekgirl]

@@ajs41 I defy you to read for 17 minutes straight using a teleprompter, without making a mistake 🙄

[@ajs41]

@@AlphaGeekgirl He probably does more than one take a lot of the time. But I still think he's a fantastic video-maker.

[@johnthebull]

This should be submitted to a museum as a tech-art piece and you can have this video play on loop to explain it whilst people play with the keyboard!

[@potatonoodlebear8035]

The Museum for the History of Humanity.

[@AtroGD]

Tom, all you had to do was connect the flumberboozle to the VGX Virtual Port

[@xanecosmo5061]

11:00

[@KillaBitz]

but only if all the repos align otherwise it's just glitch out.

[@queenbiscuit311]

@@KillaBitz make sure you put this arbitrary text in the config file or it will catch on fire

[@wilh3lmmusic]

Wrong port, it’s the GKX port. The VGX port defenestrastes your tangerines

[@verchiel_8295]

@@wilh3lmmusic NOT MY TANGERINES!!!

[@paulamarina04]

me: * has never programmed anything in my life* tom: "this program counts from 1 intead of 0" me: * dies of heart attack*

[@renzo00]

madldeleine celetse linux

[@fishingwithtoasters]

@@renzo00 real

[@nullotte]

​@@renzo00 as tom scott said, no

[@NerdTheDemon]

100 Stress Irrational affliction 100 additional Stress Heart Attack Death's Door Deathblow

[@mindit2096]

Madeline Celeste omg real

[@riverw4721]

As a Linux user I almost want to make my own emoji keyboard out of spite. Now, to obtain 14 keyboards...

[@MrHat.]

They better all be RGB or else you aren't gonna outdo Tom.

[@gamingdiamond352]

Same here

[@prayerie]

How do you spot a Linux user? Don't worry, they'll tell you😳

[@null-00000]

@@MrHat. nah, using linux alone beats tom, because you just need a simple script to make it work, instead of all those workvarounds

[@Rishnai]

@@null-00000 Got a link to the simple script that will make all 14 keyboards do this in a mainline Linux desktop distro in a Live environment? That’s the bar that needs to be cleared to qualify as simple

[@h4724-q6j]

Tom knew about the Emoji Movie in 2015. He should have done something to stop it.

[@equinoxxed_7502]

I am upset with that line

[@teaser6089]

4:16 "It worked really well, I mean we had a reserve" Do you mean a reserve skydiver?

[@catomatic3849]

this needs more likes, good joke.

[@HappyGhetto]

The edit ruined it

[@teaser6089]

@@HappyGhetto Fixed

[@HappyGhetto]

@@teaser6089 I have no further complaints

[@SnowBaller985]

Lmao

[@hidazip]

The funny thing is, Japanese don't use emoji's that often anymore. You just type in ”かお” and press space, you can chose from a bunch of "顔文字(kaomoji)"s. (● ˃̶͈̀ロ˂̶͈́)੭ꠥ⁾⁾

[@thomasrosebrough9062]

ᕦ⁠(⁠ ⁠⊡⁠ ⁠益⁠ ⁠⊡⁠ ⁠)⁠ᕤ

[@Absolute_LUNA-C]

＼＼\٩(๑`^´๑)۶//／／

[@ahumanthatexists1468]

(^_^)／□☆□＼(^_^)

[@elideaver]

That’s funny: they’ve moved back to emoticons. I see this in english sometimes: emoji are fun, but are often too specific: you can usually get away with :) ;) :/ :| and :(

[@itstherealbrace6424]

༼⁠⁰⁠o⁠⁰⁠；⁠༽

[@floof_hair3857]

Alternative title: Tom Descends Into Madness Every Five Minutes

[@behindthemask2399]

Isn't that just coding?

[@IgorOzarowski]

Good title

[@chasegilley1906]

I think that Donald Trump joke might age better than you thought Tom.

[@vvvvvvvvvwvvvvw]

Yes it did

[@wierdalien1]

Chase Gilley really did

[@tykaelin2505]

Yep.

[@catfish552]

Sadly.

[@sheepphic]

It's hard for a joke to age well when nobody's around to hear it

[@sarat6488]

17 minutes, all that build-up, and we don't get to see you type even one emoji? :(

[@cannoneq]

I was so disappointed

[@DanHaiduc]

Really? There is no demo! I want one! It's not too late!

[@MidiMaze178]

There’s a video of him typing on it, this is just the behind the scenes video

[@kckph4264]

im just disapointed that this has 998 likes

[@edef1244]

@@MidiMaze178 Strangely, behind the scenes has 1.5M views while the original video had only 600k

[@cosmicjenny4508]

I loved the part when Tom said “It’s bodging time!” and bodged all over Windows.

[@loco4loco]

HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHHA😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@lazprayogha]

16:09

[@MaxerV19]

​@@loco4loco🤨

[@lookieeight1006]

Everyone: arrays start at 0 Lua and Matlab: *confused screaming*

[@scragar]

And R. All of them use the excuse that it's easier for non-programmers, which I kind of understand, but starting at 1 makes things more difficult later, you're not solving the problem, you're putting it back 6 months until they want to use nested arrays and work out a way to linearize it and convert it back or something similar, at which point the constant ±1 adjustments cause way more problems than just learning that stuff is indexed from 0.

[@realEchoz]

I agree with scragar that it's somewhat acceptable to count from one for Matlab and R which are more often used by non-programmers, but for LUA it's just silly.

[@QqJcrsStbt]

IIRC MS BASIC 7 allowed you to define the start of array. Could be 0, 1, 2, anything (probably had to be a uint).

[@weakspirit_]

in vimscript, its 0-indexed. BUT, every operation that involves specifying a range becomes end-inclusive. example: say you have a string "hello vim!". you want a substring "hell", so you do this: "hello vim"[0 : 3] notice how the end is the fourth character. the idea behind this (i think) is to be able to do this without error: "hey there"[0 : 0] as a bonus, Neovim has a builtin lua support :D

[@abdellahcodes]

Pop fortran also

[@Klick404]

13:29 “unlike every other programming language” LUA in a nutshell

[@EsmeraldMaster]

what's weird is that autohotkey also starts at 1

[@buffalocrackerdong6978]

lua = roblox

[@davidtitanium22]

uhh visual basic has arrays that starts from 1 and lists that starts from 0. Working with that cursed language drained my sanity

[@davidtitanium22]

@@luck3298 the whole thing is bodge upon bodge upon a bodge

[@Liggliluff]

@@luck3298 _> "They all use 1-indexing. It is more logical for natural sciences academics. "_ It is not more logical, especially not in natural science. The reason why it starts on 0 is because that's where everything begin. Our numbers starts on 0, count up to 9, then roll over the next number over from 0 to 1, and the 9 back to 0. - Temperature has a zero point. Coldest isn't 1 K, it is 0 K. Length has a zero point; you can have no length. Well you can argue about the plank length, but it's still calculated from 0. - As Tom Scott showed; using 0-indexing makes maths so much easier: if each container has 15 items, and you have 25 containers, then 0-14 is the 15 items in container 0, 15-29 is the 15 items in container 1, and you can reference this number by using the formula item+(container×15). - A lot of stuff would be so much harder to work with if stuff was 1-indexed; converting inches to mm would be: (inch-1)×25.4+1 instead of just inch×25.4 - Academics, science, programming, all that benefits from 0-indexing. It's we common people who use 1-indexing.

[@l.dexter4361]

And that emoji pitch would become one of the most hated films in history...

[@gillbates4213]

origin story

[@Her_Imperious_Condescension]

Watching this in 2024, I have to say that the emoji movie seems like a cinematic masterpiece compared to the Borderlands movie. I mean, at least the emoji movie had, like, characters and a story arc, even if the humour was repulsive.

[@kindoflame]

Tom: "By the way, if anyone out there suggest using Linux... no." Me, a Linux user for almost a decade: "Fair."

[@casenc]

I almost fainted

[@stolenshortsword]

the power expressed looking at the camera and declaring no

[@AlbatrossCommando]

Fair? he made his life harder for no discernible reason, in Linux he could have literally just directly read each individual keyboard in /dev/input/ through any programming language.

[@slobert]

@@AlbatrossCommando As Tom said - no.

[@m4rcyonstation93]

@@AlbatrossCommando who cares this is funnier

[@weesalikesmilktea4829]

”Well there's no burrito emoji but at least there's a jelly filled donut"

[@Robin93k]

Damn you 4kids! xD

[@advanceringnewholder]

nothing beats a jelly-filled doughnut

[@marquess2004]

You just put me on a nostalgia trip that will most likely end with me rewatching dozens of hours of Pokémon.

[@None-Trick_Pony]

Still don't know why they chose jelly donuts, but, considering 4Kids, I'm going to say the answer was generated by a stupid computer. Like really stupid. I'm talking _absurd_ levels of stupid.

[@advanceringnewholder]

@@None-Trick_Pony Because nothing beats a jelly-filled doughnut

[@FilFee]

"it presses the F24 key. My keyboard doesn't have it, your probably doesn't too..." *Me, typing this comment on my Unicomp terminal 122-key board:* "maybe?"

[@davidguthary8147]

Hence the word "probably".

[@justkomodo]

I was watching this while typing away on my 122 key 1984 Model F, but I had to admit it was fair of him not to assume that 😂

[@ChrisPoindexter98]

That is a perfectly nerdy thing to have; nice. 🥴

[@illford]

@@davidguthary8147 yes that's the joke

[@novafrye3177]

"that's right, there's an F24 key. It's not on my keyboard, it's almost certainly not on your keyboard," _laughs in PC-122_

[@plate4416]

_laughs in IBM F122 Battleship_

[@FilFee]

I have the Unicomp one! PC-122 gang

[@GRLDT]

_laughs in QMK programmable keyboards_

[@haydmen2543]

was just about to make that joke, there goes 100 bucks

[@sophiedeergirl]

F25 key? Im gonna press the f25 key. Get ready

[@Leffrey]

The greatest plot twist of all time: “one take” at the end of a 17 minute video

[@Nicoder6884]

Basically every scene in “The Martian” is a bodge. Not sure if it beats Apollo 13 or not cause it’s fictional, but who knows

[@lopezfamily2089]

Yes the Martian has lots of bodges "ahem" blows self up making water supply

[@JacDes82]

It’s a fictional film, but the bodge is based on the scientific challenges.

[@Liquid_State_Drive]

Aight, imma cut a hole out of my pressure vessel for spare material.

[@bartekblaszczyk]

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[@0rangepel378]

@@bartekblaszczyk bruh

[@roryookane]

Transcript of 16:12 to 16:59, Tom’s final summary of how it works: > Here’s how this keyboard works. You press a key. LuaMacros intercepts it on the way in, stop Windows actually typing the letter or whatever’s underneath it, it works out which number emoji you want, and it saves that number to a file on disk. Then it presses the F24 key - that’s right, there’s an F24 key. It’s not on my keyboard, it’s almost certainly not on your keyboard, but it’s still a key that Windows can deal with, because backwards compatibility. And AutoHotkey is listening for that F24 key, and when it hears it, it reads that same file, the file that LuaMacros just put the number in, it reads that number, it looks down the list of emoji, and it types that emoji. > > That is how the emoji keyboard works, that’s why I use Windows, and that is the art of the bodge.

[@often_nie]

One take!

[@polk-e-dot8177]

"yeah alright. ive got 14 keyboards now. thats cool." how i feel going to a thrift store.

[@BuildYourOwnBass]

Better than coming home with 15 DVD burners for $15 🤣

[@h.v.1114]

I absolutely love it when Tom gets in his excited rambling mode.

[@JetFalcon710]

Same tbh. Generally I like it when anyone starts rambling on the subjects they like, and I'm prone to doing that as well

[@dabbrill4609]

"Emoji's are the Donald Trump of computers. Here's a joke that won't age well" Hahahahaha

[@Megacooltommydee]

We were all so naïve back in 2015, weren't we?

[@ShroudedWolf51]

Why is "emoji" posessive?

[@RisenSlash]

The joke won't age well. No one can stay in headlines forever.

[@justifiable]

@@RisenSlash Eh. He's president. Knowledge of him will probably be around as long as the internet is.

[@ibwam3611]

Hahahahahaha

[@mahghuuuls]

That "no" for linux distracted me for the rest of the video

[@dhruvrai2113]

Don't worry, writing elegant code to run complex systems is still better in linux. But we have to decide when to use what.

[@georgelloydgonzalez]

You're the epitome of everything Tom makes fun of

[@nathandam6415]

@@georgelloydgonzalez Software developers overwhelmingly use Linux or Mac OS to develop projects. He’s 100% right. Even Microsoft had to yield and implement a Linux subsystem for Windows because quite literally every single developer will say how awful the experience is when trying to dev on their platform. It’s not about being stuck up as much as acknowledging that Linux has a better kernel than Windows, which historically has been bogged down with legacy support with its own kernel.

[@justkomodo]

@@nathandam6415 that’s fair, but I would agree with Tom that a quick bodge that takes advantage of already existing stuff works best in Windows and actual software development works better in Linux. And I don’t think Windows can ever escape its legacy support. If a customers working software stops working on a new version of Windows, Microsoft saying “you need to get the software developer to update it” isn’t a satisfactory response to most end users 😂

[@turkyandgravy]

​ @Just Komodo Still not backwards compatible enough because hospitals still insist on using windows XP on their fancy MRI machines and such

[@rowansmart9104]

"Emoji Based Pitch" If only you knew the horrors of the emoji movie...

[@honeygdball]

"Movie studios were bidding on an emoji-based pitch." *Well that didn't go very well*

[@KillaBitz]

Well someone got paid for it so I guess that depends on what side of the table you sit. Your quite funny though I'll give you that.

[@BigIggy]

"To any one suggesting linux, no." LMFAO I spat out my coffee!

[@DanielFoerster]

The sad thing is, a little xdotool might have been a lot easier.

[@nilsgarberis]

No, no!

[@themasterofdisastr1226]

@@DanielFoerster If it is stupid, but it works... I mean, using AHK is alot easier than JS or Ruby if you are a newbie, but once you have some xp in anything else, it is weirded. But it works.

[@LaZZeYT]

Linux with 7 lines of python using evdev could have done it.

[@weakspirit_]

clearly tom isn't familiar with linux enough to do it in linux. but the moment when i saw low-level winAPI stuff, i would've given up & considered linux.

[@seafoamspirit3484]

L E V I T A T I N G M A N I N B U S I N E S S S U I T

[@rubiconnn]

🕴️

[@itoastpotatoes399]

🕴🏿

[@JonesNate]

🕴️ Wow, I actually have it. 🕴️🕴🏻🕴🏼🕴🏽🕴🏾🕴🏿 And apparently it comes in multiple ethnicities now.

[@KKdessu]

🕴️

[@Kyle-xk2rb]

🕴️

[@TheEndergun]

"Yeah, alright. I've got 14 keyboards now. That's cool." my sides have colonized Europa.

[@adeterminedfridge5582]

TheEndergun I

[@almatsailaukhan9181]

TheEndergun colonized... i don't get your joke

[@almatsailaukhan9181]

Reality Productions oooooooooooooh. that's very clever. thank you!

[@18lucky17]

I read that your sides colonized Europe

[@MrGman590]

maximum overkek

[@blackfire2047]

5:15 9 years and more relevant than ever

[@viktorashistan7207]

PHH HELL NAHH

[@billyjoeparker8054]

this video but every time Tom says bodge it gets faster

[@mischa7823]

is it already done? I would do it otherwise... :D Is the speed doubled each time, or only increased a bit?

[@almatsailaukhan9181]

Mischa Behrend like 10%

[@skepticmoderate5790]

Mischa Behrend Almat Sailaukhan Please one of you do it!

[@insanejughead]

It would quickly become the shortest video in all of Tom's library. XD

[@hebo-pe6ct]

@@mischa7823 so ummmmm whos doing it? i could. just reply EDIT: its already been done

[@thom_wye]

"So anyway I started bodging..."

[@random_person_i_guess]

- Tom DeScott

[@sponge1234ify]

​@XML studios Have you ever heard of this obscure thing called Linux?

[@adamrezabek9469]

@@sponge1234ify Linux has some nice architecture, so it's not bodge as windows. But you can make bodges in both

[@ano_nym]

@XML studios it is...

[@moosesnWoop]

"I'll run windows, someone's done it before" No truer words spoken. S/O out to all the cracks ever made and the forums to go with them.

[@ledirigeant]

And it's almost always freemium with a 7-day trial period.

[@ano_nym]

@@luck3298 three different browser toolbars are installed along with it...

[@onesimushewett9335]

I'm so grateful for this video. As part of my year 11 digital tech course, I was creating a map of public transit availability in my home city of Adelaide. However, the government doesn't have easily accessible stats for bus arrivals per suburb. So I used a windows access database with every bus stop listed and (After watching this video) realised I could use AHK to copy each link, look it up, & search the page.

[@renakunisaki]

The greatest bodge ever was a video game cartridge. Unfortunately I don't know what game it was, but after they'd manufactured the ROM chips, they discovered they'd used the wrong byte order. Basically every pair of bytes was swapped, so the chips were no good. So they installed the chips onto the cartridge circuit board anyway, but lifted the lowest two address pins, and physically soldered little wires between them and the opposite holes. Thus swapping the bytes back to the correct order by bodging the circuit so they didn't have to throw out a bunch of the chips or circuit boards they'd already made. (I only saw a picture of the actual circuit board with the bodged chip; it wasn't labelled with the name of the game.)

[@naturegirl1999]

Rena Kunisakithis is interesting

[@dreded7961]

circuit board bodges are extremely common, so dont know if it qualifies for greatest ever.

[@8bitwiz_]

I wonder what system it would have been for. For byte order to be a thing, it almost certainly would have to be a 16-bit game, but on a single 8-bit ROM. (A split ROM would just need the chips swapped.) Genesis/Mega Drive uses a 16-bit data bus, so not that one, but... yep, SNES only has an 8-bit data bus. But you may have the details wrong, because that particular wiring change would actually turn 0 1 2 3 into 0 2 1 3. The correct bodge would be a 7404 chip dead-bugged to the board and patched into the low address line. I once dealt with a 68000-based system (big-endian) running a Unix clone that for some crazy reason used an LSI-11 bus (little-endian), so when it wrote to disk, every other byte was swapped. (This is known as the "NUXI problem".) If using a LSI-11 bus wasn't enough of a bodge, it was also built into a VT-100 style terminal, which has space for a card cage. When a floppy drive was added to allow porting files over to a PC, and I was making a conversion program for it, I had to bodge in byte swapping in addition to reading from a generic Unix filesystem. Often an old bodge forces a new bodge.

[@j10eff56]

@@8bitwiz_ after listening to Tom’s video, I feel so smart that I can actually kinda understand what you just said

[@akshaytati]

@@8bitwiz_ ah yes that thing yep haha

[@Kokonutzlz]

Tom is a time traveller who went back to warn us about the Emoji Movie and Trump

[@mercentperrault]

14:11 "There might have been swearing at this point." Programmers can relate to this.

[@MetaBloxer]

WorkYouCrapMachine()

[@drpibisback7680]

I've found "goddammit" to be as essential a bit of programmer speak as any sort of technical term.

[@maradupras7278]

After a while, you just find yourself writing like public string crapFunction (double ugh, string biggerUgh) { this.ugh = ugh; ugh = ugh + someRandomDouble; if (biggerUgh == 'no please help me') { return biggerUgh; } else { biggerUgh = crapList[ugh]; return biggerUgh; } }

[@kingonmax]

There is a Twitter account that posts all the commit messages with swearword on github

[@AstoundingAmelia]

This is why I have a USB drive with a bottle opener on it

[@SkyeBlu-ep2qk]

5:20 “…Donald Trump of computers. There’s a joke that won’t age well.”

[@esmewayne318]

I forgot which country, but one of them realised that they had the measurements for their tallest mountain, or it night just be a random mountain, something like 60 feet lower then they though. They measured it back when they didn't have very good equipment, and never bothered to check it. But this measurement was in all the textbooks. So instead of recalling all the textbooks, they dumped 60 feet of gravel on top of the mountain. They will be updating the textbooks so that once the gravel falls off the textbooks will be correct.

[@AltName7]

That's a high level solution.

[@hydrolifetech7911]

This might a joke, no?

[@Jazehiah]

They made a movie about that. It's called "The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill, But Came Down a Mountain."

[@karlkarl93]

@@Jazehiah This was also in the Donald Duck comics.

[@lilithgalac5102]

"It's like the Donald Trump of computers. There's a joke that won't date well." ... heh

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

Hazel Capulus Welcome to FutureWorld

[@adastras3]

im not sure i get it 🤔

[@CharTheDude]

Alternatively, I'd make a political joke but then it might get elected president.

[@badshot370]

Hazel Capulus I didn't know that emoji was the president of the internet

[@nilleftw]

"... if anyone out there suggests using Linux... no." I blew air through my nostrils

[@OrchidAlloy]

@@DunmeriDrain pog

[@Sompursone]

Apparently you were feeling triumphant? 😤

[@computergeek8299]

You mean like every time you exhale? WOW... you took a breath?!?

[@B1GB3RN]

@@computergeek8299 Talk about living up to the stereotype that nerds aren't great with humour...

[@stevanmiladinovic4007]

@@Sompursone I use arch btw

[@kkeennddaall]

obsessed with how this video; a behind the scenes ramble where he doesnt even show the final product working, has almost five times the views as the (presumably) intended actual official proper video about the keyboard.

[@Cycl_ps]

"Emoji is basically the Donald Trump of computers. There's a joke that will date well" Oh Tom, If only you knew back then...

[@CharTheDude]

Sigma476 I'd make a political joke but then it might get elected president

[@bigboy6704]

CharTheDude, And your name would be Hillary.

[@ChristofferViken]

It hasn't aged yet. His name will still get you thousands of free clicks.

[@ShaunCheah]

He's some kind of prophet either way, CrazyFace. ='(

[@ilexdiapason]

CrazyFace, Inc. "Will" still works, though, if you assume he's being sarcastic.

[@peppermintmiso4341]

That "One Take!" made it all the greater. I felt the excitement~

[@Lauchtzelot]

And here I am, years later, getting recommended this masterpiece of information mixed with comedy and had one of the most hearty laughter ever since the start of the pandemic about the lua part ~13:00 min mark. Thank you really much for brightening up my day in these dark times! And never forget! index 0 is the entire table ;)

[@cube_cup]

I did this on linux. I sneezed and it was done I sneezed again and it deleted all files on my computer, except for my porn, which got sent to every contact in my email list.

[@puernatura8998]

Accurate

[@spike4850]

PrimaPunchy NESTER OLD BOY HOW ARE YOU?

[@slickm7]

that happened to me too

[@deflatedfruit4716]

Marcin Bator

[@iain3713]

PrimaPunchy a

[@gracelandsux]

6:10 “you might know the story.” me: [nods, because i’ve seen the several other videos of tom scott explaining the existence of emoji]

[@gracelandsux]

my life is riveting

[@RowanAckerman]

Sounds about right.

[@fuseteam]

tom: windows cause cheaper me: what about - tom: linux? uhh no :V

[@williamduncan7401]

Windows sucks

[@fuseteam]

@@williamduncan7401 i concur

[@idkidk9204]

ONLY OPEN SOURCE !!!

[@louwrentius]

Windows is cheaper if you count in your time.

[@fuseteam]

@@louwrentius really? nobody gets the joke?

[@mutsgarfield6887]

I love to go back to this video to see and hear all of the excitement and enthusiasm tom has here. This video defenitely makes me believe anything is codable if youre stubborn enough

[@mitsync]

5:55 wait... Was that the emoji movie?

[@jukajoj2400]

yes

[@jukajoj2400]

See, movies aren't made overnight. At this point, major releases are lined up until the end of 2019 at least, which, oh surprise surprise, it just about adds up. And dont forget, announcing a release usually takes place AFTER you start working.

[@lunaakayourmom3238]

Yep. Most movies are pitched years before announcement.

[@MasterFGH]

July 28

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

Another space related "bodge" (or, as we say in the former United States, a kludge) happened on Apollo 11. Apparently, after the historic moonwalk, one of the astronauts broke a crucial circuit breaker with his backpack, which would have prevented them from igniting the ascent engine and departing the moon. They noticed that it was only the plastic button they had broken, but the actual mechanism was still intact inside the instrument panel. They couldn't reach it with a finger, so Neil turns to Buzz and says "do you have a pen or something?" Buzz produced a felt tip pen with which they pressed the breaker, and the mission ended normally. From what I understand, Buzz still has that pen in a glass case.

[@spike4850]

The Garden of Eatin okay cool....

[@lilman82111]

The Garden of Eatin wait, we say kludge?

[@Hero-bs2bx]

The Garden of Eatin so buzz is the real hero of the story

[@Searching4Solace]

US citizen here and i've never heard the word kludge in my life.

[@jabbbed23]

I heard that buzz took a nap when nasa was trying to figure out what to do

[@Bodeification]

We have a word in Brazilian Portuguese that means the same thing or at least is very close: Gambiarra - An improvised solution to a problem that will probably need to be fixed again later

[@bl1tz533]

We have a word here in North America that means the same thing "Chinese Infastructure"

[@AkshayShukla.]

We also have a word for it in Hindi "Jugaad", "जुगाङ"

[@user-xx8pp7jc2p]

@@bl1tz533 💀💀💀

[@itsukizy]

@@bl1tz533 it’s funny how americans cope with the fact that their government is completely incompetent at building public infrastructure by pointing fingers at another government which is trying (and succeeding) at housing and feeding the largest population in the world. but i guess you can keep spreading misinformation and western anti-chinese propaganda if it makes you feel better 👍

[@floo1465]

@@itsukizy watch laowhy86. china’s a failed state, or at the very least very close to becoming one. chinese infrastructure is of horrific quality, chinese buildings made 10 years ago are crumbling yet the east coast of the united states has hundreds of thousands of houses that are over 100 years old.

[@novemberbaby1994]

You know it's a bodge when you stick on 1200 stickers before making sure you can actually program the keys to do what the stickers say they do.

[@dIancaster]

Who said that's the order it happened in?

[@mtranchi]

@@dIancaster Tom did in the video.

[@icrazyfish2661]

Tom:Plugs 14 keyboards into one laptop *Taran Ven Helmert wants to know your location*

[@milliblom2237]

ha fellow LTT stan

[@JFK_Speedwagon]

*drops the laptop*

[@maruftim]

ah finally an ltt comment

[@theodiscusgaming3909]

how did you manage to get that spelling wrong it's not even that hard

[@gardiner_bryant]

How portable is this solution?

[@nathanlee7078]

Not at all most likely.

[@TheZebinator]

That really depends, you could in theory make one huge keyboard on something like a table board so then it's atleast just one piece :D

[@jasonthehuman]

if you have mary poppins' bag, very! or, make an application for windows, like the built in keyboard for windows 8.1

[@samuelyoung1]

Put wheels onto a large desk and it is VERY portable

[@MatthewCobalt]

The Linux Gamer At best, it's as portable as the Osborne

[@markl3871]

Everyone: computers and programmers count from 0 Matlab and lua: ONE

[@libbyheeren]

Haha, I came here to say the same! R, SAS, MATLAB... 🤔

[@waldolemmer]

Delphi smh

[@johnw.3270]

One of the very few design flaws in LUA, yes.

[@MCLooyverse]

@@johnw.3270 Ha! Few. Good one

[@Seltyk]

@@johnw.3270 Your comment implies there are design flaws in Lua, and someone suggests that one such hypothetical flaw would be counting from 1

[@sandraviknander7898]

“Index start at one unlike every other modern program language” Let me introduce R, MATLAB and Julia

[@jyotiprakash3423]

these are not really meant for programmers

[@PermireFabrica]

@@jyotiprakash3423 I know Matlab, and it annoys me every time, because Matlab is a software use by most and foremost engineers. And engineers today needs to be half of a programmer, so they will know other programming languages too. Counting from 1 and not zero is just so stupid...

[@agmlego]

Or FORTRAN, where indices are whatever you want them to be...those were dark days.

[@altus3278]

@@jyotiprakash3423 Julia is a big boy language. It features a JIT compiler, metaprogramming capabilities, multiple dispatch and probably the best dynamic type system there is (even better than Common Lisp's CLOS). I honestly think Julia doesn't get the recognition it deserves.

[@ErikratKhandnalie]

"The emoji is basically the Donald Trump of computers..... there's a joke that won't date well." About that.....

[@AndrewMottershead]

smirk

[@indipindy16]

I read your comment at the exact moment he said it OwO

[@insu_na]

+Gerben van Straaten The guy is married, you know?

[@kaduliho]

+

[@gildedbear5355]

#emoji2016

[@advaithbala]

There's a Hindi word called 'Jugaad' that serves the same purpose as bodge does in the UK. There's also a great book written on it.

[@NotCerius]

Finally, someone mentioned it. Thanks bhai.

[@bzchii7474]

Huh, so the word “jugaad” is also something we inherited from our indian ancestors. I thought it was used in Pakistan exclusively!

[@archockencanto1645]

@@bzchii7474 Well, जुगाड is a hindi word so obviously...

[@scottmatznick3140]

We used to have a few *really* politically incorrect phrases in the USA, and I'm sure we still have some good ones that aren't heinous.

[@method9706]

me: *watches on linux* him: well linux users will go "connect the thing to the thing-" NO me: *sad*

[@method9706]

@ im aware, i was saying sad because was talking about linux lmao

[@Rusty254]

@Gizio the Jackal Couldn't watch this vid then.

[@TheGodlikeBlock]

I still wanna write a cli tool called "the flumberboozle"

[@GumSkyloard]

So, Tom was trashtalking Linux when it could've solved all of his frustration. Huh.

[@doomse150]

@@GumSkyloard Yes, if you dig deep enough into the operating system details, you can do such things with Linux. But if you don't exactly know how to do this and where to look for it from the start, you will with absolute certainty spend way longer figuring it out, than scripting it through on Windows

[@dani-wg1rf]

this is an amazing monologue and the problem-solving process is so relatable to anyone who's ever tried to make anything! also the style and pacing make me highly suspect that you watch penn & teller XD

[@Evanski]

Tom: "Lua unlike, every. Other. Programming language. In. Modern times.." Me: "counts from 1" Tom: "Counts from 1 not from 0" Me: * *throws keyboard* *

[@revspikejonez]

*emojis fly everywhere*

[@Murzac]

Depending on what you mean by "modern times", it's not actually true. R counts from 1 and I'd consider a language that's initially released in 1993 to be kind of new. Especially when some of the most popular languages are either about as old or even older than that. (Java 1995, C++ 1985, Python 1990)

[@MozartJunior22]

Matlab too

[@zperk13]

You still have 13 left

[@kiptrevor9531]

Murzac that’s a bit unfair, R is a statistics programming language so it would make sense to base itself on numerics

[@GrumpyTy34er]

I will never be happier than Tom Scott doing a 17:00 minute video in one take.

[@Fede_uyz]

so bodge is an english word for Duck tape and wd40??

[@Shakzey]

Dont forget zip ties. But yeah pretty much

[@CoffeeOnRails]

Basically :D

[@floridmonkey2723]

Duct*

[@floridmonkey2723]

Core Blaster Didn't know that that is a brand.

[@muffinproject]

Not quite. Those are quite refined products. A bodge is anything _made_ with duck tape.

[@lisabowenhospital]

Well done Tom for explaining all that

[@guyvermearns]

The amount of time it took you to set this up is still quicker than me trying to find a specfic emoji.

[@KillaBitz]

but there comes a tipping point after you've looked up 1,000,000 emoji's for example you'd have spent a lot longer than this. also I think it was made more as a joke than for any real world use case.

[@d4nielDayZContent]

In 1989 Germany made a big bodge. It works until today. Somehow.

[@hazard7732]

that's great! what is it though-?

[@bi1iruben]

+Mike Best the big bodge of German cars meeting emissions standards tests ?

[@meddiefrercury828]

+Mike Best I think he's talking about the German reunification (which happened in 1990, if I'm not mistaken?). They patched together West and East Germany.

[@narmb0911]

+Meddie Frercury the reunification was in 1990 but the wall came down at november 9th 1989

[@d4nielDayZContent]

Nico Armbruster Just a matter of interpretation which moment in history you want to claim the more "bodgier".

[@hifumindesu]

8:10 “And they have no clue what a love hotel is. Don't ask.” spat my coffee lmao

[@hatchmaster_5745]

The Unicode Consortium sounds like a faction from 40K

[@patriciamercer7632]

Watching Tom get so excited for a one-take recording is such a wholesome moment

[@BenTheBored]

You can just plug 14 keyboards in and windows just goes 'yeah, ok' - wet myself laughing

[@JohnSmith-cw1lf]

Ben Reid you still a child? Wetting the bed?

[@oddixgames6704]

The whole video I was waiting for an actual DEMO of that thing.... 😢

[@DiannikaAlyse]

this is a behind the scenes, there is another video that (i assume from other comments) shows it in use. Im about to go watch it myself

[@spiralspark8523]

@@DiannikaAlyse legend has it, he's still watching that video to this day!

[@NZsaltz]

@@spiralspark8523 truly an inspiration

[@probablyjohn5589]

5:53 "So this year, movie studios were bidding on an emoji-based pitch" Aged like milk.

[@jasonthesnow]

As someone who routinely over-complicates simple programs, I related to this on a spiritual level

[@monsterzero5650]

We call bodge in the US "Jerry Rig"

[@jameshoiby]

Or kludge, or MacGyver...

[@Timeward76]

Jury rigging*. We call it "Gambiarra" in portuguese

[@h4mmy753]

"Jury-rigged vs. Jerry-rigged. Jury-rigged means something was assembled quickly with the materials on hand. Jerry-built means it was cheaply built. Jerry-rigged is a combination of these two words." Thanks Google.

[@jack-mil9150]

Jugaad in Hindi

[@reidwilliams7747]

Or ‘patchwork’

[@Palozon]

"But what about linux?" *stares at camera *NO*

[@disorganizedorg]

I think Linux touched Tom in a bad place when he was a child.

[@JohnDoe-jh5yr]

Well okay then. Do it your way...

[@JouMxyzptlk]

I can relate to that. Linux does have it's place in the world and you can to a lot of bodging there as well, but there are many things where you can get faster to where you want to with Windows.

[@Jono997]

JouMxyzptlk *bodging. Botching is something very different.

[@JouMxyzptlk]

Jono99: Corrected. Though your interpretation is correct as well.

[@ulischmidt03]

5:15 unfortunately it's aged like wine

[@dousha99]

So a program saves some information on the disk, then notify another program to read it. Is that just a named pipe that you have created?

[@Tondadrd]

Not a Linux user here. But they forced me to it at school. So now I can laugh. They know what is good for me. Totally worth it.

[@mhelvens]

I don't think named pipes ever actually write to disk. They just use the file system as a namespace, but they're faster because everything stays in memory.

[@hermannpaschulke1583]

Named Pipes exist on Windows, too

[@realEchoz]

@@mhelvens Yup, it's a much, much better system than the crap that Microsoft somehow chose to carry over from DOS.

[@realEchoz]

@@hermannpaschulke1583 They do, but it's a pain in the ass to use when "bodging" things.

[@franciscojcsa6127]

9:12 - loved that little voice. said so well it would make harry brewis proud.

[@pluspens2134]

Oh it’s political correctness gone mad

[@akaltar]

As a programmer, I find this super hilarious. I knew that lua 1-based thing was coming! :D

[@DJstarrfish]

Honestly, complaining about arrays starting at 1 is a dumb thing to complain about. The argument for convention could just as well be applied by mathematicians who started at 1 long before computer science was even a thing, and the only language with any technical justification for it is C, because it exposes arrays as what they actually are: a hack on memory locality. And most self-proclaimed coders seem to guffaw at C's perceived "unsafeness" anyway.

[@davidberry7115]

@5:26 "there's a joke that won't age well" 7 years on and it still lands

[@stevedixon921]

Viewer: what about using linux? Tom: ...No. Viewer: ... Loved it. No room for a counter, just acknowledges it, shot it down and carried on, decision made.

[@okie9025]

The proper way to handle linux enthusiasts

[@ivanthedrunkvatnik9879]

@@jrgenbull5334 wtf is a soydev?

[@okie9025]

@@ivanthedrunkvatnik9879 a common name given to Ubuntu developers

[@okie9025]

@@luck3298 "learning how the terminal works in linux" takes months and constant practice, it's not something that's worth doing if you never have a use for linux.

[@okie9025]

@@luck3298 What's so wrong with the way he's done it?