To assert that “There exist supply-chain security risks” in any software ecosystem doesn’t require a formal analysis nor multiple experts to peer review such a notion. It’s kind of a given, especially with recent tech news. However, it’s not a … Read more
Solving Wordle in 3.64 Guesses on Average, 99.4% of the Time Hey all, I’ve been enjoying wordle recently but also wondered how a program might do at it. My first step was to extract the lists of words from the … Read more
Wednesday. December 01, 2021 – 8 mins WARNING: Spoilers for Advent of Code below This year, I decided to try my hand at solving Advent of Code puzzles, mostly out of curiosity since I know this advent calendar has been … Read more
A little background Back in college, I played a lot of puzzle games. When I talk about these kinds of games, I’m going to be referring to a very specific subset of puzzle game. Some examples include: I was also … Read more
In this post, we’ll look into the double declaration problem of (GraphQL) APIs in Web Applications. First I’ll define the problem and see that it should actually be called quintuple declaration problem. Once the problem is clear, I’ll propose an … Read more
…or how to improve your website’s uptime from 9 5’s to 5 9’s By Raj Shah (u/Brainix) Staff Engineer, Search The Three Stooges were a slapstick comedy trio (if you’re under 40, ask your parents). They often attempted to collaborate … Read more
This infamous answer on StackOverflow have reached meme status. The question is about finding opening tags in XHTML using a regular expression, and the answer makes it abundantly clear that this is not possible – and you will surely go … Read more