21 Jul 2022
Recently at work I encountered a Spark job that had begun to intermittently
fail after a long period of successes. Debugging Spark jobs is a skill in and
of itself that I will touch on it lightly here, but in my evaluation of this
job I found that:
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31 Mar 2022
With the basic
Scala implementation of Wordle
out of the way in my last post I thought it
might be a fun activity to create a Wordle solver/helper in a similar way. I
like to avoid using such things on real world puzzles as they suck the fun out
of them but writing them and testing them is fun in and of itself, so lets get
started.
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30 Mar 2022
The game Wordle seems to
have come out of nowhere in recent months and become a favourite among many. In
this post I will show how you can make a game similar to Wordle in Scala.
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18 Mar 2022
Recently there’s been an outpouring of software activists or, as some call
them, hacktivists, protesting the war between Russia and Ukraine. One of these
people, a man by the name of
Brandon Nozaki Miller, decided to introduce
malware into a popular Node.js library known as
node-ipc.
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31 Jan 2022
In an old talk by Kevlin Henley he made an observation on an effective
programming habit through the use of a
vampire analogy. The analogy went
something like this:
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