Programming for fun

Good luck with that!

> unrelated question - how do you stop your eyes from hurting after looking at code all day?

dim or invert colours on your ide.

unrelated question - how do you stop your eyes from hurting after looking at code all day?

― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, November 2, 2022 9:02 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

some time last year i started doing serious eye exercises, and they've helped. i still do the old temple rubs but massaging below the eyes feels incredibly comforting. eyebrows and some forehead rubs are good, too. i haven't really read anything definitive in terms of what works and what doesn't though, so i've just been trying random stuff. also, monitor position, body posture, and neck and head position i find help a lot, weirdly enough

i've only ever coded professionally in dark mode, so i'm not sure if light vs dark mode has any effect, personally

or I guessmake the font size huge and huge monitor

actually did some fun programming for a change. this is a cut down version of something i did for a friend's birthday, hence the candle. done on pico8, written in lua...

left, right, x to jump, watch out for the bats

http://wwe.koogy.clara.co.uk/hlwn

i have some more features to add, more enemy types etc

Nice!

7 days into this year's Advent Of Code where you get two little tasks to write code for everyday, all 14 stars so far

using Ruby, which means i have to look up about 50% of the code i write, and the nature of it is that none of it will be reused so it's as scrappy as all hell but...

https://adventofcode.com/

spent the weekend catching up on the two i'd dropped. and today's was a bitch. but 30/30 so far.

46/50 and counting. the 50th is apparently a freebie if you have the other 49 so three more to do...

(
16b - union of multiple minimum paths
19b - count the (millions of) ways to parse some strings
21b - 25 robots in a chain
)

silently applauding anyone who ventures that far - similar kind of minor awe when you see someone completely destroy a og video arcade game

Literally one of my favorite Christmas traditions. This year I did all 50 points in modern C++. It ruled.

I've been using ruby in an attempt to get better at ruby. i have got better at the kind of scrappy ruby you use to do these puzzles (which, luckily, is the same kind of ruby that i use for component tests). but i have missed strong typing.

and proper 2d arrays

16b done

got the cost of the minimum path quite quickly, but getting the ROUTE of ALL the paths with that value took, well, weeks. adding enough information to each step to remember where it came from, and then more code to use that data. redid it in Processing so i could see it working, ended up saving the final frame and counting the pixels as a check...