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Chess has not had any meaningful change to its ruleset (for the average player) over the past century.

Introduction In Jane Street’s latest puzzle, Andy’s Afternoon Amble we’re given the following prompt Andy the ant has moved on from his classic ‘Telstar’ soccer ball homeland to live on a simpler spherical surface consisting of four white hexagons that are

LLMs make producing code cheaper, but they do not make changing production systems cheaper.

Introduction In Jane Street’s Andy’s Morning Stroll puzzle we’re given the following prompt Andy the ant has spent most of his days living on a strange land consisting of white hexagons that are surrounded by alternating black pentagons and white hexagons…

Ruby blocks look like lambdas.

Write things down.

Introduction AWS Lambda’s are not truly ephemeral (you can read more in this post), instead they are short lived stateFUL instances.

Introduction In Jane Street’s latest puzzle, ‘Pent-Up’ Frustration 3 / Knight Moves 7, we’re given the following prompt The board above has been tiled with the 12 pentominoes (plus a 2-by-2 tetromino) into 13 regions.

Tenets are set of guiding principles that align your decisions to what matters most, they serve as durable decision rules that resolve recurring trade-offs.

When diagnosing a memory leak I suspected was caused by orphaned processes, I ran into a snag with ps not being available within the AWS Lambda NodeJS runtime (potentially other ones as well).