I’m attempting Advent of Code this year using Go. It took me three attempts to solve the first puzzle, but I got it!
Surprisingly the tricky part wasn’t the number crunching for the answer, but reading the numbers from disk and putting them in their respective…

Yikes what an absolute month. Anyway:
We’re nearing the end of the year and I feel Something Looming. Here’s 200 Earth Impact Craters Mapped by Size and Age for no reason in particular.
I learned about the Kansas City cave cars and I think we should fill…

This was tough. I started with bufio to read the file like I did for day one, but fmt.Sscanf() did not like the variable line lengths. encoding/csv worked great for this, but because the return type and structure are different I had to refactor everything…

Like last year, these are my most-played tracks and albums on Lastfm.
Top 10 tracks “Cogito” by Akusmi “ride around” by Goat Girl “tcnc” by Goat Girl “words fell out” by Goat Girl “Always / Never” by STRFKR “Armatron” by STRFKR “It’s The Squeeze” by Dog Race…

This took forever to solve (19 distracted evenings) and it came down to forgetting to break the loop on the first successful level removal with the “Problem Dampener” enabled. Without the break it would just keep finding good level combos in the same report…

Went looking for the MST3k version of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians based on recommendations from friends and Tedium, and I forgot that they made all the classic episodes available for free on their own streaming site. Just need an email address to make…

I tried to record myself narrating a blog post for funsies, but the recording had a lot of ugly interference in the background. I narrowed it down to the switch on the back of my Blue Snowball, which was loose and sometimes lost contact. Even worse, when…

Look, I haven’t been excited about a movie in a long time. Even as I write this the day after viewing I’m still SO pumped. Bobby P. of Team Edward fame, Steven Yeun from Invincible, Parasite director Bong Joon-ho, Mark Ruffalo(!), SPACE and the philosophicals…

When did I start calling it zoup? I have no idea. Why I call it zoup is clear though: it’s just so fun to say. You try it: make zoup from a can or go all out and make your own big happy steaming pot of zoup, and then call out in the worst German accent you…