Thanks to some friends, I started programming in high school with QBASIC. Nowadays, I'm a software engineer working mostly in Java and active on Exercism. On weekends, you can find me outside, at a parkrun, tending to the veggie patch or the six backyard chooks.
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Jul 6, 2025 · 4 min read · I recently had the chance to add the Intergalactic Transmission exercise to Exercism's C# and Elixir tracks. The goal of the exercise is to practice bit manipulation, by inserting a parity bit after every 7 bits so that each resulting 8-bit byte has ...
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May 15, 2024 · 12 min read · The first time I heard of the arc consistency #3 (AC-3) algorithm during a mentoring session on the Zebra Puzzle exercise in Exercism's Elixir track (thanks afraik!). I was avoiding permutating through the combinations and had came up with a solution...
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Feb 20, 2023 · 2 min read · Kernel.update_in makes it easy to update nested structures. For example, let's say we want to change Jack's last name to "Nimble" in the following list of maps: list=[ %{name: %{first: "Jack", last: "Munroe"}, age: 30}, %{name: %{first: "Jill", l...
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Jan 27, 2023 · 3 min read · After setting up my layer indicators, I wanted an easy way to turn on/off and cycle through two RGB matrix effects. The idea was to use plain solid light (RGB_MATRIX_SOLID_COLOR) as a kind of keyboard backlighting and an RGB effect (RGB_MATRIX_CYCLE_...
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Sep 28, 2022 · 6 min read · The plan I planned on having Colemak and numpad layers when I got my first mechanical keyboard - the Keebio Iris (rev 6). The Iris came with built in LEDs for each key and each side had six underglows arranged in two rows of three. I was thinking to ...
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