softcore software by a hardcore hooligan
I explain how Irish has no words for yes or no, how and why this causes an issue in machine translation, and how I wrote a program to approach the problem.
I have been doing a lot of competitive programming problems on Kattis lately. It is my favourite online judge, and I have been enjoying my climb up the Irish scoreboard in an attempt to regain my former glory of first place . In particular, today I was tackling the problem Pivot
I had a lot of fun yesterday evening competing in the 11th edition of the #battledev competition. I hadn't taken part before, but decided it might be worth checking out what competitions happen beyond Ireland's shores, and a French friend recommended this one. The competition is French, but it allows
The Irish Collegiate Programming Contest (IrlCPC) is an annual programming competition hosted in University College Cork. I have attended the IrlCPC before, finishing second in 2016 and third in 2017, delighted both times. This year, there were seven problems on the list, roughly arranged in order of difficulty; the first
This week I took part in the HackTrinity CTF . It was my first CTF, but by the end of the week I managed to get all the flags. I think I may have been the second person to do it :) Following is my solutions to each of the problems, in
Long ago, I meant to write about this. I took part in the Hashcode 2017 online round with Cian Ruane . He did a great write-up of our entry ! We came 1st in Ireland, and 164th globally, and had a lot of fun. Go read his post about it xo
Kattis is an online programming problem archive that gives you points for each problem you solve in relation to how difficult the problem is. It then aggregates the total points of people within a university, and within a country, based on an adjusted sum of the total points of all
The following image was floating around the internet this month (in varying degrees of blurriness): The goal is to share a song on social media for each day of the month of April matching the respecting description. Being the wannabe music fan I am, I was interested in trying this.
The Irish Collegiate Programming Contest (IrlCPC) 2017 was held on Saturday, 25th of March, in sunny University College Cork. I was competing with two of my housemates, Cian Ruane, and Ross O'Sullivan. Myself, Cian Ruane, and Stefan Kennedy came 2nd place at the IrlCPC last year, so I fancied our
On Wednesday the 22nd of February, I took to the southside to take part in Hack the Dot , a domain-name-driven hackathon organised and hosted by Rightside . I am a big domain name watcher, and a vocal fan of the new generic TLDs. Rightside are a Donuts competitor, and I didn't
My experience at the HackYourWayDay eircode-based hackathon, writing a tool based on historical crime data to estimate the safety of an area.
I do a lot of problems on Project Euler . It is a really cool site full of mathematically-flavoured programming problems that are too difficult for me. My homepage right now keeps some live stats about my progress on Project Euler and some similar sites. Unfortunately, Project Euler doesn't provide any
Description of the backend (flask) and frontend (JS, static site) of the first iteration of dia-log, a system to help you manage your diabetes data.
I am doing a BSc. in Computational Problem Solving and Software Development (CPSSD) at Dublin City University ; DC122 in CAO talk . It is a small, specialised course for students who already have some programming knowledge. You can learn more about it at the website I set up for it . But
Bhí sé ar m'intinn an blag seo a athrú ar feadh cúpla mhí. Bhuel, tá sé déanta anois. Táim ag baint úsáid as Ghost anois - tá sé deas go leor, simplí, agus FLOSSy. Bhog mé an cuid is mó de na postálacha ón leagan sine anseo. D'fhág mé cúpla