I've been playing Human Resource Machine. It's awesome! It's a little silly that I've been relaxing after a long day of coding by... doing assembly programming, but it's a fun game. Anyway, I've been hung up at the optimization challenges for Year 20: Multiplication Workshop. The challenge: For each two things in INBOX, multiply them … Continue reading Multiplication Workshop
TK MAX MEETUP GROUP 4 LYFE
I wrote this the day after the "The Imitation Game" meetup (November 22nd, 2014). The fellow who usually wrote the post-mortems wasn't there, and I had to record an excellent evening. And thus I reproduce it here for safe-keeping: OK, I'll try my hand at a post-mortem. The three of us got together for the … Continue reading TK MAX MEETUP GROUP 4 LYFE
I contributed to CPAN!
I spend a lot of time dealing with Perl at $WORK (as you can tell by the word "$WORK"). One of my projects is updating our legacy code, which mostly runs on Perl 5.8. When I tried running things under Perl 5.20, some unit tests broke because as of Perl 5.18, the return order of keys … Continue reading I contributed to CPAN!
Back in Vancouver
I'm back! I'll write something more about my travels at some point, but in short: they were grand. I've resumed working for my previous employer, and aside from finding an apartment of my own, have gotten relatively settled. YAARRRRR!!
Eurotrip: Ireland
From Derry I went back into the Republic, specifically Galway. It's a little funny; I've been near Galway twice, but never been ... even though it's consistently a place that people rave about. After visiting, I kinda get it. It has the amenities of a bigger town like Dublin, but it's still tiny and less … Continue reading Eurotrip: Ireland
Eurotrip: Northern Ireland
Alright, now for travel updates. The trip began with a journey from Dublin to Belfast by bus. It was a bit of a weird start to the trip, honestly; I think that was my fourth or fifth time visiting. I stayed at the Travelodge near Hotel Europa, wandered up to the botanical gardens, visited the … Continue reading Eurotrip: Northern Ireland
Life Updates
*taps mic* Hey out there. As of just over a month ago, I've finished my position in Ireland. Since then I have Gone to YAPC::EU in Granada, Spain; Cancelled my utilities and given up my apartment; Said "goodbye" and "see you again" to far too many people; Hit the road. I'll have to elaborate in … Continue reading Life Updates
#TáForGra
I wrote this the day of the referendum: Today's the big referendum in Ireland! There are two things being voted on: 1) whether to reduce the required age for candidacy for the office of president from 35 to 21; and 2) add the following text to Article 41 of the Constitution: "Marriage may be contracted … Continue reading #TáForGra
Been here a while
I had one of those experiences last week. I was walking home from work, and there were six guards at the intersection of Nassau St. and Kildare St. I looked down Kildare and there were more guards, and people off in the distance. So I asked, "Sorry, what's going on?" "A protest." "Irish Water, right?" … Continue reading Been here a while
Broken Age
Heh, another video game post. I'm a monster! Broken Age was fun. Some of the later puzzles were frustrating, but otherwise it was pretty much how I pretend adventure games used to be. Its big hook (aside from being a new adventure game) is that it has dual narratives that you can swap between at … Continue reading Broken Age
For Great Justice(!) 