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One coding problem I encountered was to do a merge sort of a linked list. I wrote a merge sort in Go, but when I tried to verify it via timing sorting large linked lists, I got some strange behavior

About May 30, 2024, I was driving on I-25, southbound, south of Loveland. I passed by a flatbed truck with a yellow, plastic dump truck strapped to the flatbed.

Once upon a time, I wrote four programs that can play a game called squava with lesser or greater amounts of skill.

All four algorithmic players can win against each other, although there are definite differences in apparent skill. I wanted to know what their Elo rating might be.

After a reboot of my new server, the Kea DHCP server did not respond to DHCPDISCOVERs or DHCPREQUESTs

Saw an exceptionally bad commercial tie-in the other days, Oreos, and Star Wars

My pet Roomba, Dobby, got a thread wrapped around his constantly rotating whisk brush. Soon after that, a carpet loop got wrapped in there, too.

I falsely believed that I had found a wordle state where an elaborate regular expression with alternations gives fewer possible answers than a simple regexp in a pipeline with extra greps.

I was wrong.

I had to use the world’s dumbest keyboard at a parking lot in downtown Denver.

I’ve found graffiti evidence of “Sardine”, a denizen of downtown Denver, probably homeless.