Advent of Code 2024: The First Week
AI has changed programming forever. It has changed Advent of Code and the way I work. What’s life going to be like when AI can do my job, better than me?
Programming Language
It's not writer's block, it's distraction
I wanted to write about Origins 2024, but then I just got to wondering if I could write an aquarium simulator for an ASCII terminal, and eventually this happened.
Advent of Code Day 9 -- Rope Bridge
The elves are crossing a bridge, but it is a really short bridge – in fact it is the shortest bridge possible. So what did the protagonist fall into when it snapped?
Advent of Code Day 4 -- Camp Cleanup
As well as my Day 4 solutions in Python and Java, I talk about the AI solving controversy in Advent of Code, and teach the chat bot to speak a language I just now invented.
Chasing Dings! goes to West Karana
I was playing around and wrote a script last week that took an old backup of my previous blog, West Karana, and brought it to life as a GitHub repository. A friend on Twitter challenged me to do even better. Yesterday, I found a more recent backup – posts up to 2016, that I wrote for Google+, and used that as a source to finally get everything merged to this blog. It’s an exciting DevOps adventure. ...