Today I went through a standard coding challenge: “Create a minesweeper board with variable rows, columns, and bombs”. The challenge was for 20 minutes, spent 31 minutes, and cannot really figure out why it could never generate.
After my previous posting of “omg my server didn’t have virtual memory” I decided to fiddle it out. With my own fingers this took 12 minutes tops, but the amount of regret I feel is priceless.
Read MoreAfter Gettin’ hacked and rebuilding with a cheaper server I started encountering random slowness and problems. I always seemed to have random CPU spikes here and there but the console at digitalocean didn’t really give me much to work with.
Today I tried to install git so I can get some repos cloned down to demo and the process kept getting Killed. After some simple googling and basic cross referencing of the system I’m leasing I learned the stupidest thing in the world.
Read MoreA song recorded and released May 1973 came into a resurgence almost 10 years ago by Sara Bareilles with her amazing rendition. Sang recently at the NEXT / Kennedy Center for the 2024 Near Years Eve celebration.
There’s been many other things that find their finality in 2024, and for once I’m glad closure was invented for many of these.
Read MoreIn my life I’ve lived at over 50 address. With so many places to have called home it would not be surprising that one or two of those houses and/or buildings would no longer be standing today. In looking back through and updating my “list of all my addresses” I happened to find 3 in Jamestown, NY within about 1000 feet of each other that are razed for their own reasons.
Read MoreI had a job, a roof over my head, ability to purchase clothing and food without assistance.
I was also happily married and in the process with US Immigration to bring my then wife to the United States. After our nuptials and the failure for me to secure regular employment in Hong Kong I moved back to lay our roots. Within a month I was successful enough to return back for our first anniversary. Afterwards the separation got to us, and this 10 year reminder popped on my calendar today:
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