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I’m getting too many “How did we do?” emails

Have you ever felt a burning rage upon receiving the 87th “how did we do?” email in a day? So have I...

Old orange segment screen displaying a lot of numbers in a table.

When base64 encoding goes wrong

Base64 encoding is easy, except when different commands automatically add unexpected values to the thing you want to encode.

Photo of a clean warehouse painted white with open shelving storing open boxes of probably food.

Length and capacity in Go slices

Length and capacity in Go slices confused me for a while. They're related but different, and important. This will give you more clarity on what they are.

A few 6-axis orange industrial assembly robots on a production line.

Advent of Code 2024, Day 15

It's Sokoban, but I wrote the logic! Part 2 lost me three days, and it was kind of a simple fix and I'm mad about it, but onwards I go.

Toy robots displayed on a table at a game fair.

Advent of Code 2024, Day 14

Phenomenal part 2, itty-bitty part 1. I both hated this, and feel smug satisfaction that I managed to solve this. Unrelated: William Gibson: Pattern Recognition is a great book!

Cute pink and baby blue claw machines in an empty arcade filled with plushies.

Advent of Code 2024, Day 13

Day 13 brings us LaTeX, high school math, coordinate systems, graphing, vectors, equation sets, and variable types for memory layout.

Aerial photo of garden plots in roughly a grid.

Advent of Code 2024, Day 12

Some more flood fill and recursive function shenanigans. Thankfully it was never close to not finishing in time.

Large stones protruding from the ground.

Advent of Code 2024, Day 11

I had to get some help, but learned something new about memoization and the importance of caching. Solutions and explanation within.

Wooden CNC made model of Mount Everest with holes for paths and pegs denoting camps.

Advent of Code 2024, Day 10

Finally a problem where I accidentally solve part 2 during part 1 and get a wrong answer as a result. Makes for a quick part 2 though!

It’s a photo of a CD. Because compact disk. The theme of today 😂.

Advent of Code 2024, Day 9

Editing vectors and slices in place is not fun. Or fun, there are some weird edge cases, but day9 compacting disk was fun!

Old buildings with seemingly makeshift antennas on them.

Advent of Code 2024, Day 8

A fairly easy day of map parsing, combinatorics, and bounded value generation. A fun one nonetheless!

Multivariant math equations printed on paper.

Advent of Code 2024, Day 7

Manually doing arithmetic from left to right is cool. Rust doesn't have easy recursive functions, which is not cool. Fun solution!

Picture of three guards on patrol at Windsor Castle, United Kingdom.

Advent of Code 2024, Day 6

A map walker game with a branching part 2. I spent a day on it, but in the end I prevailed!

Two notebooks on a table. Text on the top one reads You come first, not second.

Advent of Code 2024, Day 5

HashMap in Rust to the rescue! Along with lazy iterators, maps of maps of whatevers, and two gold stars!

Looking down through a metal grate you find in factories.

Advent of Code 2024, Day 4

Day 4 of Advent of Code 2024 brought us a 2d grid and finding shapes on it. It was a fairly straightforward task.

Two light switches on textured wooden wall. One is a double switch.

Advent of Code 2024, Day 3

Day 3 complete with two gold stars, lots of one liners, regex use, and some string concatenation.

Man walking in front of a modern facade made of lots of large bright circles in a grid.

Advent of Code 2024, Day 2

Advent of Code day 2 learnings and pseudo solution with link to the actual solution in Rust.

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Advent of Code 2024, Day 1

I am doing Advent of Code 2024 in Rust! This is day 1, chronicles on learnings and solutions.

Couple standing in their kitchen looking at a wall mounted whiteboard they use as a todo list.

The one secret no one tells you about todo lists

Number one will shock you! I've removed so much stress and still get everything done. Eventually.

Metal sculpture of a man in a boat saving another man from water.

Care, end of 2024 edition

Care, genuine care about people and things seems hard to come by in 2024. We should care more. About other people as well.

A huge fork statue that's stabbing a lake with mountains in the background.

Contribute or fork?

Would you fix or fork an open source project? What gets you to contribute back to someone else’s project? Why should you? Why shouldn’t you?

Two bison headbutting in a fight.

I can no longer trust WordPress

WordPress's latest move of hijacking the ACF plugin firmly solidified that it can't be trusted, regardless of the reasoning behind it.

Folio of paper tax forms, cup of coffee, a pen, and the calculator app on an iPhone.

RSU of a US company under UK tax law

I live and work in the UK, and got some RSUs of a US company trading on the NASDAQ. The experience was wild, and the calculations wilder.

3D render of wooden looking blocks of computers

Running WebAssembly code on NGINX Unit

NGINX Unit 1.33 just got released, and it has an up to date version of wasmtime. Here's how to run your component in Unit.

One of the canals in Amsterdam taken from the middle of a bridge. Bicycles in the foreground.

So you want to visit Amsterdam

If you plan on visiting Amsterdam in the near future, I put together a bunch of tips I wish I’d known before I went. You may find them helpful.