Hi! π I'm Daniel, a software engineer living in Canberra, Australia.
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My Home Screen for February'24
(Ignore the unreads β I will reply to them at some point!)
- Obsidian is a staple, notes used to be my go to, but I've found so much more utility with Obsidian.
- A couple of shortcuts for posting to th...
TIL: Testing actions in Hanami 2
I was pairing with a colleague this afternoon at work on trying to test an action in Hanami 2 where we explicitly needed to read the body of the request.
The action looked something like this:
class MyAction < Action
before_action ...
2023 Tunes!
This year I tried my darndest to Scrobble more to last.fm like it was 2008. This was made difficult by how tricky scrobbling from modern streaming services is. If anything is to count as a scrobble, it needs to be in the your "library&q...
Advent of Code 2023 β Day 9
More camels and oasis-es, less cards.
In this puzzle, we're using our trusty Oasis And Sand Instability Sensor βΒ OASIS β to analyse our surroundings.
The OASIS produces a history for each value, and we need to extrapolate the next valu...
Advent of Code 2023 β Day 8
Another fun one!
Today's puzzle had us navigating a sandstorm. Our map, a set of directions, through what looked like a graph.
Starting at AAA
, we want to get to ZZZ
following the R
, then L
item each iteration β starting from R
again i...