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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 …

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 …