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CodeIsTheEnd @CodeIsTheEnd
Joined February 2021
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CodeIsTheEnd@CodeIsTheEnd
28 Feb 2021
Sick of waiting for ESPN to load on your phone? I made a site that shows live NBA games, boxscores and play-by-play in plain text and loads instantly. No frills, and no waiting, just plain text sports: plaintextsports.com

Plain Text Sports

Instant live sports scores, play-by-play, and box scores

plaintextsports.com
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On the other end:
Screenshot of Github showing the plaintextsports commit that sets the Knicks as NBA Champions

ALT Screenshot of Github showing the plaintextsports commit that sets the Knicks as NBA Champions

PlainTextSports@PlainTextSports
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Congratulations to the 2026 NBA Champions, the New York Knicks!
ASCII art of the Larry O'Brien Trophy alongside the final score of Game 5 of the NBA Finals, New York Knicks 94 – San Antonio Spurs 90

ALT ASCII art of the Larry O'Brien Trophy alongside the final score of Game 5 of the NBA Finals, New York Knicks 94 – San Antonio Spurs 90
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One of the great pages from Basketball Reference: basketball-reference.com/fri…
Summary of all NBA playoff series where the home team went down 0-2

ALT Summary of all NBA playoff series where the home team went down 0-2

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The previous times the home team went down 0-2 in the Finals were when it was a 2-3-2 format, which are on a separate page. basketball-reference.com/fri…

7-Game Playoff Series Outcomes (Since 1984); 2-2-1-1-1 Format | Basketball-Reference.com

Historical 7-game playoff series circumstances and outcomes

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The jumbo format has won!
ASCII diagram of the World Cup Knockout Stage

ALT ASCII diagram of the World Cup Knockout Stage

CodeIsTheEnd@CodeIsTheEnd
May 24
A single super jumbo tall 32 team bracket, or one bracket for the round of 16 and on, and another table for the round of 32?
Possible ASCII rendering of the Knockout Stage of the World Cup, showing a single very large bracket for all the knockout games

ALT Possible ASCII rendering of the Knockout Stage of the World Cup, showing a single very large bracket for all the knockout games

Possible ASCII rendering of the Knockout Stage of the World Cup, showing a bracket for the Round of 16 and on, and a separate table for the Round of 32

ALT Possible ASCII rendering of the Knockout Stage of the World Cup, showing a bracket for the Round of 16 and on, and a separate table for the Round of 32
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A single super jumbo tall 32 team bracket, or one bracket for the round of 16 and on, and another table for the round of 32?
Possible ASCII rendering of the Knockout Stage of the World Cup, showing a single very large bracket for all the knockout games

ALT Possible ASCII rendering of the Knockout Stage of the World Cup, showing a single very large bracket for all the knockout games

Possible ASCII rendering of the Knockout Stage of the World Cup, showing a bracket for the Round of 16 and on, and a separate table for the Round of 32

ALT Possible ASCII rendering of the Knockout Stage of the World Cup, showing a bracket for the Round of 16 and on, and a separate table for the Round of 32

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48 teams is too many! It's breaking all my hardcoded spacing!
A rendering bug for the 2026 FIFA World Cup on plaintextsports, showing a line wrapping because there are now over 100 games and 100 takes up three digits instead of just 2.

ALT A rendering bug for the 2026 FIFA World Cup on plaintextsports, showing a line wrapping because there are now over 100 games and 100 takes up three digits instead of just 2.
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I feel old.
PlainTextSports@PlainTextSports
Apr 11
Replying to @CRCampana
This code is almost five years old. I don't know why I decided to just show the bench there, but I've updated it to just show the likely lineup (and removed the bullpen section).
Screenshot of git blame on a section of code on Github showing some code that is almost 5 years old.

ALT Screenshot of git blame on a section of code on Github showing some code that is almost 5 years old.
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The TBS broadcast after the end of the championship game was awful, taking nearly 30 seconds to show the Michigan players celebrating, instead showing coaches shaking hands and fans not even in the stadium. NYT is even getting on it, with this weird photo highlighting a referee?
Photo on nytimes.com showing two Michigan players celebrating and a referee prominently in the foreground

ALT Photo on nytimes.com showing two Michigan players celebrating and a referee prominently in the foreground
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Now that we have ABS, can we get rid of the strike zone overlay so we can appreciate how impossible it is to tell if something is a strike? Only show it on replay if it was close.
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Sorry about the PTS outage today. I added a message at the top that will appear if a page hasn't been updated for 2 hours. Hopefully Twitter works better, since my Rollbar free tier email notifications don't work properly.
plaintextsports screenshot showing a banner at the top of the page explaining that something is broken and telling people to reach out

ALT plaintextsports screenshot showing a banner at the top of the page explaining that something is broken and telling people to reach out
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I thought I could get away with just counting innings played for the "runs allowed" tiebreaker in the World Baseball Classic, but I had to update it to actually calculate defensive outs recorded to correctly handle the three team tie in Pool C.
Diff showing updated logic to count exactly how many defensive outs were recorded by a team

ALT Diff showing updated logic to count exactly how many defensive outs were recorded by a team

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Hm, this is still wrong. I thought the next tiebreak after "runs allowed/out in common games" was "runs allowed/out in all games", but it switches to "earned runs allowed/out in common games". I could lookup the number of earned runs, but that's annoying...
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bruh why didn't anyone say anything
Typo on plaintextsports.com: "2026 Winter Olympic"

ALT Typo on plaintextsports.com: "2026 Winter Olympic"
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smh, “plain tech sports”, you don’t know what’s up siri
iPhone notification that reads: “Add MLS to plain tech sports”

ALT iPhone notification that reads: “Add MLS to plain tech sports”
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Oops, the FIXME snuck through
Screenshot of PTS preview in messages that has “Olympic Schedule FIXME” as the page name

ALT Screenshot of PTS preview in messages that has “Olympic Schedule FIXME” as the page name

PlainTextSports@PlainTextSports
Feb 10
Individual event schedules for the Olympics now posted on plaintextsports! Medal table coming soon hopefully.
List of events in the Winter Olympics, and the figure skating schedule for the next week, as seen on plaintextsports

ALT List of events in the Winter Olympics, and the figure skating schedule for the next week, as seen on plaintextsports
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PlainTextSports@PlainTextSports
Feb 3
The Olympics are on plaintextsports!!! (At least just the schedule for now. Hopefully a more detailed schedule page and a medal count in the next few days.)
List of Winter Olympic events on Wednesday, the first day of competitions in the Games

ALT List of Winter Olympic events on Wednesday, the first day of competitions in the Games

PlainTextSports@PlainTextSports
Jan 5
In one month: the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo
ASCII art of the Olympic Rings

ALT ASCII art of the Olympic Rings

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Dear god, @ToCSquash, I have NEVER seen a worse ticketing website. tocsquash.com
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Definitely messed up the overlapping of the rings the first time.
PlainTextSports@PlainTextSports
Jan 5
In one month: the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo
ASCII art of the Olympic Rings

ALT ASCII art of the Olympic Rings
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not much improvement, but at least it's trending in the right direction
Charts showing yearly and monthly step counts for 2024 and 2025. Daily average for 2024 was 10,012 steps a day, daily average for 2025 was 10,013.

ALT Charts showing yearly and monthly step counts for 2024 and 2025. Daily average for 2024 was 10,012 steps a day, daily average for 2025 was 10,013.
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Would anyone want one of these plaintextsports drawstrings bags? I might order some more and could send them to people at cost (~$25).
plaintextsports.com bag at Yankee Stadium

ALT plaintextsports.com bag at Yankee Stadium

rendering of plaintextsports.com bag

ALT rendering of plaintextsports.com bag

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(definitely would not arrive remotely close to Christmas lol)
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