I used to try to do one dumb/weird hardware thing every year. One year, I used a Palm Pilot as a serial terminal for a Sun SPARCStation-10. Multiple serial cable adapters and gender changers involved.

My dumb hardware stunt for October 2024: 10 USB WiFi adapters on the same laptop.

My pet Roomba, Dobby, got himself stuck under the corner of an upholstered sofa. Again.

Daily Coding Problem: Problem #1790 [Easy]

Implement the function fib(n), which returns the n^th number in the Fibonacci sequence, using only O(1) space.

One of my kids passed along a logic problem.

Dead Lies Dreaming, © 2020 by Charles Stross, ISBN 978-1-250-26702-1, A Tordotcom Book. Published by Tom Doherty Associates.

Problem Statement

Given a list of words, find all pairs of unique indices such that the concatenation of the two words is a palindrome.

For example, given the list [“code”, “edoc”, “da”, “d”], return [(0, 1), (1, 0), (2, 3)].

A Museum You Should Visit

Fossil Butte National Monument is about 20 miles from Kemmerer, Wyoming, and well worth a visit.

I bought a TP-Link powerline ethernet starter kit.

I visited the Vedauwoo, Wyoming climbing area just over 25 years after my rock climbing accident there.

I fell about 30 feet on July 3, 1989, leading to an emergency room visit, 3 days in the hospital, and 9 weeks of knees-to-toes casts.

On September 2, 2024. I went back for a visit, as a tourist. I haven’t been rock climbing since early 1990.