My Year In Cities, 2025
Like last year, here is the list of cities I visited during 2025, in chronological order.
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AoC 2024: A Powerful Elixir
Each year for Advent of Code I complete the puzzles in a language that I’ve never used before. This year I hastily decided on Elixir, a functional language that runs on the Erlang VM (called BEAM), at the last minute. (I used Zig in 2023, Common Lisp in 2022, Crystal in 2021, and Julia in 2020.)
My Year In Cities, 2024
Like last year, here is the list of cities I visited during 2024, in chronological order.
Monthly Update: October 2024
This last month was a lot less eventful than some of the previous ones. A lot of business as usual, though even business as usual always has some interesting wrinkles.
Monthly Update: September 2024
It’s been about 7 weeks since my last update, and the time has been well spent. The school year ended for the kids, we went on holiday, I started a new job, and more.
Monthly Update: July 2024
A while back I read a post that described monthly updates as “a version of social media that respects attention and focus”, and that struck a chord with me. So I’m starting a monthly update series, let’s see how it goes.
Zigging through Advent of Code
Advent of Code is the highlight of December for me and, as I do every year, I completed it in a language I had never used before. This year’s selection was Zig, which describes itself as “a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software”. (Previous languages I’ve used include Crystal and Common Lisp.)
My Year In Cities, 2023
Like last year, here is the list of cities I visited during 2023, in chronological order.
How Do Humans Think?
My various feeds have been filled with a lot of discussions of ChatGPT, its value, its use cases, whether it’s good or bad, how it works, and all sorts of other stuff. Some of it is interesting or useful, some of it is just noise, but mostly I don’t want to talk about any of it.
The Many Faces of Crystal
Last month I did 2022’s edition of Advent of Code, and, like every year, I did it in a language I had never used before. (Last year I did it in Common Lisp, for instance.)