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Sudden phrase-initial beat-long cutoffs
2025-01-02I have literally no idea how to describe this in words, but here's a short list of a bunch of songs that do a cool musical thing.
Gizmos is a nifty engine building game themed around collecting a bunch of little gadgets that work together. I would guess about 0.2% of the people reading this wonder about questions like "what's the maximum theoretically possible score?" or "what's the fastest theoretically possible game?" To those 0.2% of people... I'm so glad you asked!
Penalty theory in wall puzzles
2024-07-27Nikoli-style pencil-and-paper logic puzzles, like Sudoku, Yajilin, and many more, have very simple rules. But you can often build puzzles that require thinking in really cool ways, seemingly totally unrelated to what the rules literally say.
Wait, it feels like I've written this intro before...
A Slay the Spire puzzle
2024-02-21You are peacefully going about your day when you are suddenly thrust into the following position in a game of Slay the Spire. What do you do?
Splitting hairs
2024-01-11The split
function,
near-universal in modern programming languages,
for separating a string into a list of strings on a delimiter:
how hard could it be?
Penalty theory in dynasty puzzles
2022-07-27Nikoli-style pencil-and-paper logic puzzles, like Sudoku, Yajilin, and many more, have very simple rules. But you can often build puzzles that require thinking in really cool ways, seemingly totally unrelated to what the rules literally say.
Tier lists
2020-08-22Here I will rank the items of various lists by my opinion of good they are, which is of course objectively correct in all cases.
Factorial in Mathematica
2020-08-21Here is a list of (mostly) increasingly stupid ways
of calculating the factorial of n
in Mathematica.
Names and renaming
2019-02-01There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
—Phil Karlton