w8mr's Thoughts cafe

  1. Power of approval

    During a 1-on-1 with my lead, I (or better to say we) came to a great realization that I wanted to share. Let me start by setting some context. Last half year, I've been running a new interim leadership position. It was on a temporary base to see if I…

  2. Setting up a self-hosted blog is easy

    In contrast to what I said in my previous post setting up a self-hosted blog is easy. It is almost so easy that I was doubting if I should write about it (or that could be my anxiety again. 😉) What do we need to for our setup: A domain name…
    on Setup

  3. Day 12 - Easy, but so many mistakes

    Sometimes you know you shouldn't do something but you do it anyway. Today I made that mistake on the assignment. It was a simple assignment we have a ship, with a direction (N,E,S,W) and a location on a grid. And some simple instructions on how to change…
    on Aoc2020 Haskell

  4. Day 11 - Very slow

    Grids are back again, but quite different this time, and still no pathfinding though. Today's assignment is based on Game of Life van John Conway. A board game where cells are turned on and off based on a few rules. The rules of this grid are a little different. There…
    on Aoc2020 Haskell

  5. Setting up a self-hosted blog is hard

    Today I will explain why even for a seasoned developer it can take months to set up a self-hosted blog. Let me first start with a small introduction on why I wanted to have a blog. Basically what it comes down to is that I wrote a series of articles…
    on Anxiety Setup

  6. Day 9 - Heads or tails....or inits

    We have to crack some cipher today, to do that we have to find a weakness in the encryption. I shall go into the solution a little bit deeper to explain how list comprehension works as it is such a powerful feature of the language.. Our input is a list…
    on Aoc2020