Why I like Food Chain Magnate
Having played three games in Food Chain Magnate, I would announce that it is my new favorite board game, or, at least one of them.
I need to be careful with names
Last week I created a post and a page. The post was this. I wrote about what my first game setup was like, and what difficulties I met with trying to run the game under Linux with Steam Play. The page, available here, was on the other hand not supposed …
Astraeus workspace
Back in 2015, Google open-sourced its internal build system, Blaze, under the anagram name of Bazel. Since then I had worked to migrate and unify the various build scripts in my company into a single Bazel workspace. Not long after, however, I decided that maintaining a Bazel workspace is not …
Google Code Jam 2019 Round 1A
This Round 1A was crazy. I was barely awake when it started, and I spent about two hours on the first problem — which is probably going to be the hardest problem one in historical first rounds! Anyway, it turned out to be OK for me as the other problems …
Google Code Jam 2019 Qualification Round
It was probably depressing to realize that I have not participated in any programming competitions since the last October. It is more depressing that I nearly missed the Code Jam of this year: I received no notification mails and I did not think of it either. Anyway, I was lucky …