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And me? I'm Leo Laporte

Podcaster, Broadcaster, Tech Pundit. Founder of the TWiT podcast network. Recovering syndicated radio host.

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    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

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    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

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    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.

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    Five Years Later: The TWiT.tv Web Site

    Exactly five years ago, we debuted the “new” TWiT web site. I wrote the following post shortly after. It’s buried somewhere on the site (that’s one part of the design I wish we’d done better) so I wanted to “resurrect” it here. The annotations are from today.

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    Fame is a Vapor

    I use fortune and cowsay1 to spit out pithy sayings when I launch my terminal2. This morning’s seemed very apropos.

    Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

    – Mark Twain

    After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.

    – Italian proverb

    The universe speaks.

    And now, a little movie3 to demonstrate. Pay no attention to the locomotive.

    1. Mac users can use brew to install the fortune and cowsay programs. Arch users can combine both with cowfortune in the AUR. And for extra fun, install lolcat and get rainbow fortune cookies. I’ve posted the fish shell code I use in the comments below (the footnote formatting mangles code blocks). ↩︎

    2. From xkcd #196: Command Line Fu Thank you, Randall! ↩︎

    3. This movie brought to you by asciinema. Install on macOS with the command brew install asciinema. ↩︎