Hmm.. I want to run Hashi Nomad. Ah, looks like I need Consul. Oh, I should probably use Vault too. So much config, maybe I need Ansible. Terraform? At this point, why not. Cool. Cool. Here's my website: localhost:8080/hello_world

Congratulations Eric on another successful year of #AdventOfCode. Thank you for your time and effort in creating this annual tradition. Also, kudos to the community - visualizations, memes, blog posts, discussions, and all. Merry ho-ho-holidays folks. Let's do this again, together, next year!

Y'know, I'm inclined to think the elves at #AdventOfCode don't deserve presents. Everything is broken. Every year.

Happy to report, I've solved #AdventOfCode d10p2 without z3! I forgot to stop my script. It ran for more than 48 hours. Pretty sure I'm the only dumbass that has done that.

It's the penultimate day for #AdventOfCode. I wonder if we get two parts tomorrow or just one. My brain is also getting a little confused. It alternates between thinking tomorrow is Christmas because "last puzzle", and knowing it's too soon to be Christmas. Wait.. It's too soon to be 2026!

I found my new favourite phrase of 2025! Someone on the call just said "as asap as possible". Lgtm to me, tysm so much.

#AdventOfCode getting spicy. I'm getting stuck. The good news is, I've become more productive now that I have to avoid social media so I don't get spoiled.

Just found out python heapq supports maxheap out of the box. Idk why I've been using negative weights in minheaps to simulate maxheaps. And I'm gonna keep doing it.

0H-H0, 3D inputs. Flashback to dropping bricks. I wonder how that reddit person attempting #AdventOfCode on ASM will handle today's puzzle.

Oh cool, a given christmas tree input. Or closed enough. Hope this means we won't have to find it by shuffling the inputs this year. #AdventOfCode

We're halfway done with #AdventOfCode. Such a strange and bittersweet feeling. I'm thankful for getting time back, but it feels all too fast! What am I gonna use to pretend-work at work?

Today's #AdventOfCode is an example of the non-technical challenges we face as devs, where the requirements are incomplete and we need to employ data forensic to suss out the details.

Is this considered an easter egg? I wanna hang out, but I don't want to intrude either. I guess I'll just stalk you like normal people do. As always, very thankful of Eric for #AdventOfCode.

Lift temporarily chute. Thank you for your understanding.

IMO the most enjoyable part of #AdventOfCode is not solving the problems themselves but seeing the variety of visual representation of solutions posted by the community. Sooo satisfyingly to see into my own head with my own eyes.

Made cat trail mix by adding small pieces of freeze dried chicken into regular kibbles. Cat picked out all the chicken like children picking out marshmallow bits from breakfast cereal.

Not sure if I've trained the stray cat to meow for food, or she trained me to give food when she meows.

Sigh. Crossword puzzle is my game now. I grab a handful of rasins when I crave something sweet. I eat prunes daily. I've suddenly become lactose intolerant. What the heck happened to me?! I'm officially an old man...

Asking the void because I don't want to deal with reddit - can someone briefly explain "US govt shutdown"? So some govt workers still go to work, but they don't get paid, but are also legally entitled to back pay. What's the rationale of withholding pay in the first place? (I'm not from the US)

"What's worse than finding a cockroach in your meal is finding half" It has been over 20 years since my teacher said that to me. I'm still traumatized by that statement.

I can almost start being productive. Almost!

I'm making a productivity app so I can start being productive. No, I'm not procrastinating.

How old am I? Let me tell you. I have prescribed medicine that I have to take daily, forever; my back complains when my mattress is too hard or too soft; I groan audibly when I stand up; my next door neighbour can hear me sneeze; I use semi-colons; I answer questions with stories. Old. Too old.

Current AI has all the answers to all our problems, past, present, and future. All we need is to ask it the right questions in the right way. I propose we build another AI to find such questions. Together, humanity would have the answer to life, universe, and everything! Wait.. Hol' up..

I've got this ache at the base of my spine that I can't seem to stretch no matter how I contort. Now I get why the ghosts in horror movies are all strangely twisted - they must be suffering from incredible lower back pain from lying in their coffins for years.

If I get a dollar for every time a bird shit on me, I'd have $2 just this week. Not much money. But that's a lot of getting shit on...

"used ai to ..." provides no useful information whatsoever. It could mean calling an API, which.. well, a large part of the web pre-ai was already that. If I made AI echo back my prompt exactly, provided this text as the prompt, then copied AI's response - I would have "used ai to" write this.

Another one: tried filtering by a user-defined tag, but getting no results. I can clearly see results with that tag on the web ui! Took 4 hours to realize the tag has a trailing white space ):

Most recent madness - App works on local and remote. Made a config change: works on local, fails on remote. Ok. Revert change. Works on local, still fail on remote. What? Adds logging: works on local, remote throws 403. VPS ip got flagged between config change. Another day I'm not getting back.

/dev is NOT where you store developer stuff. DO NOT sudo rm -rf /dev to start over your project. On a completely unrelated note - will sftp /dev from another machine save a machine with /dev deleted? Asking for a friend.

I just spent 3 hours changing CMD arguments in my Dockerfile, rebuild, and run just to inspect the file system of my container. There's a lesson here about reading docs ... oh, the build is done - I wonder what's in /bin. Let me check with CMD ls /bin..

Just tried DeepSeek R1. Honestly very impressed by it. Being able to follow the reasoning provides significantly more value than just a prompt-and-answer approach.

BANG!

Just finished reading "designing data intensive application" by Martin Kleppmann. Can't believe the contents are still so relevant despite the book being published almost a decade ago! A great final accomplishment to cap off the year. Excited for 2025 😁

The more I learn about distributed systems, the more I think most of the world don't need microservice architecture. Monoliths are fine.

I started #AdventOfCode for the puzzle. I completed it because of the awesome community. A big thank you to everyone who was part of this journey. Have a very merry X'mas!

Trying to guess the #AdventOfCode progress image thingy is such a rollercoaster! At first I thought it would be a snake. Then I thought it would be a camel. But the final image is so much more thematic. Congratulations Eric for 10 years of puzzles!

co, de, ka, ta Subtle. Clever! #AdventOfCode

Can't tell if this year's #AdventOfCode so far is surprisingly tame or I'm getting better 🤔

As a dev, I feel obligated to say... Hello world!