Posts from 2022
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Adventures in Advent of Code
I’ve been participating regularly in Advent of Code for the past couple of years. It’s one of the highlights of my holiday season. The puzzles are fun, the stories are appropriately ridiculous, and it’s a neat way for me to keep the cobwebs brushed off some of the things I learned years ago that I don’t regularly use. Every year there are puzzles that take me a couple of minutes to solve, and puzzles that take me hours: I will forever curse the Intcode puzzles from 2019.
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My First App
I grew up around technology, so I don’t have good memories of when I really “started” getting in to programming. When I was around 14, I picked up HTML and started playing around with that. I learned to make simple graphics in AppleWorks that I’d embed in those pages.
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Conditional Compilation, Part 4: Deployment Targets
Recently I was thinking about the idea I’d posted on simplifying backwards compatibility in Swift, and was also thinking about some of the principles of kindness that I wrote about in my article on API design.