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In a rare recorded talk, this person demonstrates a program that animates two ASCII sword duelists and calls it the “ultimate computer program”. That demo program was running inside this person’s educational application Hackety Hack. This person wrote songs like “This Book is Made (of (-5[1])Rabbits and Lemonade)” and “When You Wish Upon a Beard” to accompany a self-published work. That book by this person opens by telling the reader to imagine finding a huge onion in the book, and has many illustrations of cartoon foxes and the recurring phrase “chunky bacon”. Some programmers observe the anniversary of August 19, 2009, when this person tweeted “programming is rather thankless” and completely (15[1])disappeared from the Internet. This man helped popularize the Ruby language with his “poignant guide to ruby”. For 10 points, name this programmer whose pseudonym is sometimes followed by (10[1]0[2])“the (*) lucky stiff”. ■END■

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