Started playing fantasy football last year. Vastly improved my enjoyment of football, find myself following players and teams I wouldn’t care about before. I use my fantasy app for scores, news, etc.
I watch RedZone, and created a multireddit for nfl, teams, fantasy, etc. for the rest + YouTube for highlights
Almost done with Beej's Guide to Networking Concepts[1] and absolutely loving it, following along in Go. Gotta check this out and his other guides afterwards
One problem I’ve experienced doing something like this is you end up with both exceptions and error values since the standard library and 3rd party libraries are still primarily exception based. You either have to live with it or create wrappers that catch errors and return them as values.
I always thought it would be cool to build an entire toy “stack”. Maybe start with a language, DB, and web server. You could start out simple, for example building a language that transpiles to JS, and overtime replace parts with lower level implementations
I got it to solve day 1 while playing with it yesterday, not shocked at all that this happened. Wonder if they'll try to prevent this somehow to preserve the competitive nature of AoC...
Really liked this post. One of the hardest things for me as a junior engineer is navigating complicated codebases and understanding them enough to make the change I want. This gives useful insight on how one might approach a similar problem.
What about the web? The browser isn’t a perfect sandbox and certainly limits capabilities but many apps these days could be (and are) served via the browser
Halfway through crafting interpreters and I couldn’t recommend it enough, the entire book is free on the website, and contains every line of code you need to create your own programming language. Very practical, with just the right amount of theory.
Even if you don’t care about language design, it’s a great way to get you to think about the tools we use everyday, how they get made, and why their limitations exist.
- Children of Time
- Hyperion & The Fall of Hyperion
- Red Dragon & Silence of the Lambs
- Cat's Cradle
- The Book of the New Sun