Facebook Hacker Cup 2013

This year I did the Facebook Hacker Cup again. I didn’t do as well as last year, only getting to the first round and solving just one problem. It was interesting and fun though. I was in position 1952 of about 10,000 with 877 people solving more problems »

Sorry, command-not-found has crashed!

Whenever typed a command that didn’t exist on some of our servers I got the following: $ poop Sorry, command-not-found has crashed! Please file a bug report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/command-not-found/+filebug Please include the following information »

Solving 4clojure problems offline in emacs

It annoys me when sometimes a solution to a 4clojure problem gets a bit long to type and test in the little edit box. As they say it is not an IDE, and doesn’t try to be, so I wrote a little app that fetches the problems down via the api and wraps the »

101 Goals In 1001 Days - Retrospective

Well, I guess this could be considered an early 2012 retrospective as this is my first blog post this year (so much for the goal of doing one a week, a goal I am not sure is actually all that worthy to be honest) Firstly, about the 101 goals in 1001 »

Forward Vegas 2011

One again Forward took all its staff to Las Vegas for the Christmas party, cheers Neil! We stayed at the Wynn again. Beautiful view from my room On the first day we went carting. The final day I went to do a skyjump off the Stratosphere (have a »