January 27, 2024

Indiana Jonesing: Week 2 of 48 in 24

This week’s challenge was to reverse a string. And I took the “Indiana Jones when that guy waves the sword around and Indy just shoots him” approach this week and got the silver medal using three languages that make this exercise a one-liner. Clojure First up, Clojure: (ns reverse-string) (defn reverse-string [s] ;; <- arglist goes here (clojure.string/reverse s) ) Haskell Next Haskell: module ReverseString (reverseString) where reverseString :: String -> String reverseString str = reverse str JavaScript And finally, Javascript. Read more

January 23, 2024

Starting off easy: Week 1 of 48 in 24

Exercism – one of my favourite “learn to code” websites – is doing a thing where each week (ish?) there is a new challenge to solve a coding exercise in several languages. It’s called “48 in 24”. It looks like you get a bronze medal if you solve the coding exercise in some language, a silver medal if you solve it in three specific languages, and a gold medal if you solve it in any three languages in 2024. Read more

September 26, 2023

How Errors Compound

I was messing around with a project recently, and I thought everything was going swimmingly. My unit tests were passing, the output to stdin looked like I’d expect. And then I made one small change, and instead of the binary number I was expecting, I saw: 1010101001001020 “Ones and zeroes everywhere. And I think I saw a two!”; “It was just a dream, Bender. There’s no such thing as a two. Read more

September 21, 2023

Quit Lit

As twitter… I don’t even know what metaphor to reach for to describe what is happening to twitter, but all I know is that we will be calling it “doing a twitter” from now on. Anyway, as twitter does a twitter, I’ve seen people talk about several tools for archiving your social media output. This has always sort of puzzled me. I kind of don’t mind if social media is ephemeral, impermanent. Read more

July 10, 2023

Why Paw Patrol is just the worst

I am a dad, and as a dad I watch a lot of kids TV. Some shows I think are actually pretty great (Hey Duggee, Bluey), and some shows are fine, not my thing, but inoffensive (Fireman Sam, Chuggington, Octonauts). There is, however, one show that I just really hate. Paw Patrol. It’s bad. Caveats Before we dive into all the reasons Paw Patrol is the worst, I want to lay out a few caveats. Read more

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