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This is my third time taking part in the Advent of Code, I wrote about it before: 2019/2020 This year I wanted to not just do Python again but also not invest so much time into doing Erlang or Clojure, but practice Go a bit.

For no particular reason I finally started fixing a few things that had annoyed me on this website on the weekend, but postponed putting it all live because I ran out of time.

Last night a friend asked for help.

While I didn't take part in the Old Computer Challenge I wrote about last week, I did play around with the laptop a bit since then.

When I read The Old Computer Challenge I knew this wasn't really for me.

I started a new job in February and with it came a new work computer, it's a Dell Latitude 5310 with an i5-10310U, 16GB of RAM, and a 256 GB SSD.

These review posts have proven incredibly useful when looking up stuff, so I'll continue this tradition. ( 2019 / 2018 / 2017 / 2016 / 2015 / 2014 / 2013 ) Non-Board Games I've played/bought World of Warcraft - subscribed the whole year, played quite a bit

After I wrote my post about Advent of Code 2020 yesterday I wanted to put it live, of course.

This is my second time taking part in the Advent of Code, I also wrote about it last year.

First of all, the Nexus 5 is really dead.

My phone is a Nexus 5X, I bought it on July 21st, 2016 - that's 3 and a half years ago.

After the hardware upgrade in November and a somehow rekindled interest in playing around with hardware and self-hosting after a few months of mostly playing games...

Why?

It is January and I decided to bite the bullet and finally try out the Windows Subsystem for Linux, despite my bias against development on Windows.

These review posts have proven incredibly useful when looking up stuff, so I'll continue this tradition. ( 2018 / 2017 / 2016 / 2015 / 2014 / 2013 ) Non-Board Games I've played/bought World of Warcraft FFXIV EVE Online Borderlands 3 Books I've read Worst…

This is my first time taking part in the Advent of Code, although I had heard about it earlier.

Despite never speaking very highly of it, Windows is still the OS of choice for my main machine at home, because it's mostly used for gaming and I still find it highly annoying to work on Windows.

The old computer was nearly 7.5 years old, so it was time for a new one: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8x 3.60 GHz Socket AM4 Boxed, 324 EUR MSI B450M Mortar Max, 94 EUR 2x16GB Crucial Ballistix Sport LT V2 Dual Rank DDR4-3200 DIMM CL16-18-18, 144 EUR 1 TB Samsung 970

I'm not new to IndieWeb but apart from implementing webmentions in clojure a few years ago I never really participated.

The only thing I've been writing about seem to be desktop environments lately, especially i3 and kde.

I stumbled over this post about the new Xubuntu 19.04 and what's going to be included I remembered writing about i3 and kde.

These review posts have proven incredibly useful when looking up stuff, so I'll continue this tradition. ( 2017 / 2016 / 2015 / 2014 / 2013 ) Non-Board Games I've played/bought SW:TOR - Subscribed for the 2nd half of the year, played a lot EVE Online - Not

Books/Algorithms Competitive Programmer's Handbook C C2x – Jens Gustedt's Blog Living Why Are Antiques So Cheap?

Admin aelsabbahy/goss - Quick and Easy server testing/validation Algorithms Consistent Hashing: Algorithmic Tradeoffs Flocking Audio lieff/minimp3 - Minimalistic MP3 decoder single header library How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice U…

I've had used i3 from time to time in the past but I was still a staunch supporter of xmonad, so when I got a new work laptop in late 2017 I of course tried to use xmonad, as I have been since early 2012.

React/JavaScript kay-is/react-from-zero - A simple (99% ES2015 less) tutorial for React Remote/Work Working From Home Is Not Remote Work RPG Michtim: Fluffy Adventures | Inclusive Roleplaying Game for Kids and Grown-Ups The Expanse Roleplaying Game by Chr…

Games/Consoles Odroid-Go Review: An Affordable DIY Portable Game Console Hardware/Retro/VAX The only 1U VAX in the world!

It's a nice and sunny cold and rainy Saturday and I noticed I have never written about keyboards, but I did post a few pictures on the Fediverse, so I thought I'd rather save them in a proper format.

Algorithms Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Explorations in better, faster, stronger code.

So the word is that Chrome displays "Your connection to this site is not secure" as of two weeks ago.

So yesterday the lunar eclipse was supposed to be seen quite nicely and as I usually complain that my balcony only gets sun during breakfast time and is no use to sit there in the evening because it's going out to the east... at least I could try to watch…

I've been using Linux on the desktop for quite a few years now, on work machines exclusively since 2010, and casually for a while longer.

As the topic came up at work this week and I've also been thinking about it for a while and still nearly forgot, this May marks my 20th anniversary of being online.

Algorithms Bit Twiddling Hacks Backup restic/restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program christophetd/duplicacy-autobackup - Painless automated backups to multiple storage providers with Docker and duplicacy.

Development faemiyah/dnload - Minimal binary generator for *nix operating systems E-Mail RainLoop Webmail Keyboards C64 Keyboard Prototype – breadbox64.com Language Ladle Rat Rotten Hut: Exploratorium Exhibit.

E-Mail/Caldav DavMail POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway make The Lost Art of the Makefile OSDev GitHub - tuhdo/os01 - Bootstrap yourself to write an OS from scratch.

API Build a JSON API With Hugo's Custom Output Formats | Forestry.io ARM NEON is the new black: fast JPEG optimization on ARM server Audio Encoding data in dubstep drops Bash/OpenGL nrdvana/CmdlineGL C++ lvalues, rvalues, glvalues, prvalues, xvalues, help!

C endrazine/wcc - The Witchcraft Compiler Collection CLI Seashells - "pipe output from command-line programs to the web in real-time" Compilers Crafting Interpreters: A Virtual Machine D-lang DiamondMVC/Diamond - Diamond is a powerful MVC / Template Frame…

Big Data COST, or the Configuration that Outperforms a Single Thread BSD NetBSD features you may have missed C++ Ask HN: Best way to learn modern C++?

AWS/make StanfordSNR/gg - The Stanford Builder Blockchain Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election Sierra Leone government denies the role of blockchain in its recent election C++ C++ FAQ Advanced C++ Welcome Back to C++ (Modern C++) Goog…

Bookmarks RadhiFadlillah/shiori - Simple bookmark manager built with Go E-Mail Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative | Hacker News Fonts The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack Hardware/Laptop DIY Laptop HTTP/Performance denji/awesome-http…

Just shy a week for a 3 month break, let's hope the regular schedule will continue now.

These review posts have proven incredibly useful when looking up stuff, so I'll continue this tradition. ( 2016 / 2015 / 2014 / 2013 ) A bit late this year (last year?)

Books/Algorithms Software Foundations CSS LayoutIt!

Got encouraged to check out the manic street parade, it's called a "club festival" -whatever that means- but a quick listen to their preview playlist got a "live music - ok" seal of approval.

Audio/Windows audiorouterdev/audio-router: Routes audio from programs to different audio devices.

Cassandra The Total Newbie’s Guide to Cassandra Electron/GUI How To Make Your Electron App Sexy Fonts source-foundry/Hack: A typeface designed for source code "Font Detectives" Use Their Expertise to Solve High Stakes Cases 10 most popular coding fonts Li…

I've kinda stopped blogging regularly, I think I've migrated mostly to Twitter like many people did.

Fonts Interface font family make A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles Mobile 100 days of postmarketOS Rust The huge and long awaited release is finally here!

Art A Visual History of Typewriter Art from 1893 to Today AWS Build Your First Serverless Web App Books Did This Book Buy Its Way Onto The New York Times Bestseller List?