2024 AOC Day 4 - More live coding!

I’ve completed “Ceres Search” - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/…

Lots of fun tonight - and with a little help I think we came up with an elegant way of solving part 2!

Code on Github

2024 AOC Day 3

Oops I did it again. I’ve completed “Mull It Over” - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/…

Again I toyed with my karma and streamed the whole bloody process.

Code, as usual, on Github

2924 AoC Day 2

I survived “Red-Nosed Reports” - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode

Had a lot of fun on this stream with help from the pros at the top of our private leaderboard.

Code, as usual, on Github

2024 AOC Day 1

I’ve completed “Historian Hysteria” - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode

I always look forward to this particular coding challenge. Last year I got all the way to Day 22 before calling for the Sag Wagon. This year I’ll be doing it in Common Lisp again for as long as my puny skillz are able.

I took a chance and streamed my work live last night.

Fortunately it was easy and I wasn’t humiliated.

Code at Github

Election denialism.

Them: storm the Capitol

Us: leave that lawn sign up just a little too long.

Sofa Parade

The district South of A Street in Santa Rosa, California is called the SOFA district. Every year they have a sofa parade. Featuring actual sofas.

Auto-generated description: A lively mural on a long wall features various colorful characters, including a snowman, a person holding a torch, children playing, and animals parading. Auto-generated description: A group of people in colorful outfits and wigs are parading with a decorated float featuring umbrellas and a large face cutout, with a rainbow flag. Auto-generated description: People are standing on a street, some holding bubble machines while others walk, with a child running in the background. Auto-generated description: A person wearing a striped coat and black pants is walking outside holding a black and white striped umbrella. 70s disco bicycle rider

New Mac Day

The new M4 Pro Mac mini arrived today. (Buddha for scale.)

The new mac mini in a stack with a blue buddha and the Mac Studio it's replacing

It’s so small and cute. And the internal drive is very very fast.

Blackmagic Disk Speed Test results showing 6647 MB/s write and 5397.2 read speeds

Quiet, too.

My momma with her grandson’s cookbook. She’s so proud.

Me, too.

I feel like it’s a Scooby-Do moment. The orange spook mask comes off and it’s… President Musk!

From Sherrilyn Ifill:

Our spirits will be assaulted in the coming months – by coarse and crude language, by open displays of violence, of privilege, and of unchecked power. We may feel as if we are occupied by a hostile force. This feeling will combine with our grief to weaken and exhaust us. We must hold onto the things that refresh our spirits – time with family, music, art, nature, hobbies, food. We must protect our core.

Small i voted.

Now we sit and wait. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.

Oi. I feel like a moron. I tried to add a font-awesome icon to my blog title. It did not work as expected and now I’m stuck.

You might notice a bunch of older posts on my timeline - I’ve decided to move my blog from a self-hosted Hugo instance to micro.blog. I don’t know why I didn’t do this sooner. Thanks, Manton, et al!

Let's see if this Stoot thing works...

I'm starting to wish Apple would add an "I've already voted so stop bugging me" setting to iOS.

Is it weird that the Advent of Code problems keep me up at night? I don’t mean I’m staying up late working on them, I mean I’m lying in bed trying to figure out how to find a single point in a 4,000,000x4,000,000 grid populated by scanners with varying positions and ranges. ZZzzzzzzzzzz

Time To Ask The Tech Guys

As of Sunday, December 18, 2022, the Tech Guy radio show is no more. But starting Sunday, January 8, 2023 a new and improved show will be born: Ask The Tech Guys with Leo and Mikah!

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Time for Windows Weekly. Listen live at live.twit.tv

I’m turning off my automated news feed on my micro.blog (https://leo.social). If you still want links to stories we’re planning to cover on TWiT follow:

twit.social/@twitnews

Thanks!

So I guess this means I have three Fediverse accounts: leo.social, @leo@twit.social, and @leolaporte@pixelfed.social.

Not to mention my long abandoned mastodon.social account.

And I always thought I was anti-social.

Hello. I’m reconnecting my micro.blog to leo.social. I’m also @leo@twit.social.