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  1. Advent of Code: Day Two

    Spoilers for Advent of Code below Day one All Advent of Code posts Source Day two is done! Again, as expected this was pretty simple – construct a basic Rock, Paper, Scissors game from an esoteric strategy guide and then calculate the score. Do these elves ever actually work? The strategy guide looks like this: […]
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  2. Advent of Code: Day One

    It’s the first day of Advent of Code! I finally get to continue my long-standing tradition of being really enthusiastic about it for two-or-three days, missing one day, and not going back. Today wasn’t too difficult, as it never is at the start. Once again I decided to use Rust, because I’d like to eventually […]
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  3. TIL: Including subfiles of ignored directories

    Okay that title is a bit of a mess. Here’s the problem, you have a directory that looks like this: – app.ts – scripts – file.sh – anotherfile.sh – build.js – node_modules Previously I didn’t want to upload anything in scripts, however now I’ve added build.js and I would like that uploaded. My .ignore looks […]
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  4. Three weeks of Mastodon

    We’re now just about at the three-week mark since one of my friends jokingly told me I should just self-host a Mastodon instance after I complained about not knowing which one to choose. Jokes on him, I actually enjoyed it. Making the switch I actually already had an account on mastodon.social, that I’d made a […]
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  5. FediLeventy Part 2 – comments and follower lists

    Yes, I’m calling it FediLeventy and there’s nothing any of you can do to stop me. Yesterday, after publishing my post on implementing some features of ActivityPub, I received a comment from i@social.bennypowers.dev: The short answer: No. The long answer: Not yet. Yet is now Given I already had most of the framework in place […]
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