Last year I managed to find a group to play Dominion semi-regularly. It prompted me to buy yet another expansion. I picked Nocturne for its lack of extra components. It was probably a mistake, since Adventures, Empires and Renaissance all provide more variation to the game, while Nocturne adds more complexity.
Anyway, back to the topic. It began to feel clumsy to move the four boxes around. It is time to find a storage solution.
I seem more motivated to write about my failures. I sucked at round 3, and I immediately started writing this post.
As I started writing those Google Code Jam posts, I grew unsatisfied with the blockquote option offered by the current theme: walls of text was set in big, italic typefaces. Not the most readable choice.
Another Thursday. Another Code Jam review because writing about anything else would have taken even more time…
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 the best use of my time. I worked on other projects, and created an unrelated open source Bazel workspace for my own enjoyment.
This post will be a brief introduction of this project.
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 were easy and I was good enough to enter the next 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 that someone informed me that it has begun in the last few hours, and here I come.
Since I have just updated to WordPress 5, it seems appropriate to start investigate what changes do I need to keep in mind if I am to switch to Gutenberg.
While I have been using WordPress 5 on my local test server for months, I still worried about possible breakage caused by an update. Anyway, if my Gentoo experiment is any indictment, then I should have come to the conclusion that “not updating your system” breaks the system worse than “often updating”. The point is that by holding off updates for a long time, there has to be a point where new software start to be not compatible to your base system, and reverting to old versions gets harder and harder. And if you only fix it then it finally breaks, it might has already become a mess that’s impossible to deal with.
Hence, despite the concerns, here I updates the website.