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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 …

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 …

Day 8 - Thinking ahead

A first glance at today’s assignment meant that it was going to be fun. We are going to build our own CPU emulator. Last year on day 2 there was also a CPU emulator, which got extended and reused every other day starting from day 5. These …

Day 7 - Megaparsec

Today my 2 year old helped me to get up at 5.30, so I had about 20 minutes more than I would have normally have for getting settled at my laptop. Except for the loss of sleep that was a good thing, I was way more energetic when starting day 7. For …