Posts about 'musings'
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The Joy of Leetcode
“This is what happens if you do very well on coding puzzles,” an acquaintance texted me last year during Advent of Code. I honestly assumed the link included in the text was gonna go to some meme of a skeleton dead in front of their computer. But nah, he wanted...
My Github Skyline for 2024
This is always a bit of silly fun, but I missed it last year. This year, the Github team put together a CLI tool that somewhat replicates the old STL generator. I used to print mine out, but I think I like the ASCII art better. :) This was created...
Building My Blogging Habit, With Toys
I would like to be writing more, and most self-help books about productivity say the same thing: If you’d like to encourage a good habit, you need to remove friction. To that end I’m trying out a few portable Bluetooth keyboards, under the idea that if it is easier to...
The Wrong Reason (and the Right One) to Blog
I wish I looked this relaxed when I worked on this blog. Photo by Vardan Papikyan on Unsplash You should keep a blog. Yes, you. You introverted developer. A blog helps you learn in public. The concept of learning in public is often discussed in tech circles (and rarely, in...
Why I'm Not Doing Advent of Code (in Go)
I want to learn Go. another statically typed language would be good to have under my belt everyone seems to LOVE go I want to see what all the fuss is about and stretch my brain Ergo1, I should do a bunch of coding puzzles this month in go, right?...