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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.

Photo of colourful terraced houses that look very similar to each other.

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.

Drawing of a medieval key that’s been snapped in two.

SQLite General error 1: foreign key mismatch

Foreign key constraints are fun, but there are a bunch of requirements you need to pay attention to. One of them was kind of sneaky in Laravel.

Two adult monkeys and a baby monkey on a stone fence.

Communicating peacefully

How do you deal with someone at work who keeps asking something you've already answered? Or a passive aggressive colleague? You don't play.

Signs in an airport with pictograms and text in English and Spanish.

Anything language agnostic is just a new language

Anything language agnostic just means that someone wrote down what things mean, and created a whole lot of adapters to different languages for it.

Mechanical keyboard in a wooden resin case with a wood/resin wrist rest.

On personal knowledge management systems

Are you supposed to use the tool you're being told you should be using? Are you comfortable not using that tool? Where does your discomfort come from?

Mural of David Hasselhoff in the Hasselhoff museum in the cellar of one of the hostels in Berlin.

MERGE Berlin 2024

MERGE Berlin 2024 was a very useful developer expiernce conference! Here are my 7 takeaways from it. Number 5 will surprise you!

Inside of a well lit museum showing off anthropological finds from the ancient world.

Anthropology and the mundane

How much of your day to day life is possible because everyone shares in common knowledge that's not written down? Can that be lost?

Picture of a page from a dictionary with the word “technology” being in focus.

Shorthands

Shorthands are useful to communicate lots with few words, but assumes that everyone has the same understanding of the shorthands.

Photo of a guy doing an ollie at a skate park with a crowd of people in the background.

Your authentic self at work

Something I learned later than I should have about bringing your whole self to work.

Neon sign that says "Go up and never stop" with a neon arrow pointing right under it.

Going from nothing to $200 is harder than from $200 to $5000

Going from 0 to 200 is harder than 200 to 5000 even though the differences would imply the opposite.

A very old encryption machine with typewriter keys and rotary dials built into a really wide suitcase.

“Encrypted” emails

I went to a cybersecurity conference, and turns out encrypted emails aren't encrypted at all. They aren't even emails any more!

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I don’t think I can be a content creator

Hi guys to my channel! Don’t forget to like and subscribe and hit that bell icon to receive all notifications! This is not going to happen.