This year, I got asked a couple of times about the libraries I use for the Advent of Code in Elixir. So I decided to put together a small article to take you through my toolbox. Graphs For graph problems such as the ones listed below: Digital Plumber Universal Orbit Map …

When it comes to interviewing tech candidates, there are two main camps: Those who like open questions and those who like closed questions as well as many flavors in between (see here for an overview of what those entail). After having done more than a 1000 interviews in the span…

The Stream module in Elixir is full of amazingness! One of those hidden gems is the Stream.unfold/2 function. Today I would like to take the time and show you a couple of example usages of the unfold function to help make you understand how powerful it can be. But first…

It’s no coincidence that tables in Notion are called databases. That is because they actually are. Today, we’re going to look at how to use them in oder to create complex relations. Projects Let’s start off by creating a list of projects. I’d like projects to have a Nameand a Start…

I imagine that you’ve landed on this article as you either use Notion to keep track of your ToDos and you’d like to know how to integrate the Eisenhower Matrix to it or you already use the Eisenhower Matrix for your ToDos but you’d like to start keeping track of…

So you’ve managed to solve the first TryAPL problem and are ready to tackle the next one? Let’s get cookin’ Making The Grade The second problem from 2013 is titled: Making The Grade The problem is asking us to write a function which returns the percent of passing grades in an array of…

So you understand where BQN comes from and you’ve setup your development environment but you’d like to get better at it? Then you’ve come to the right place. Today we’ll be looking into solving the first problem of the TryAPL practice problems in BQN. Seems a Bit Odd To Me The first problem from 2013 is…

If you’ve read Part 1 or if you’re just curious to know how to setup your BQN environment, then you’ve definitely come to the right place. The Compiler In Part 1 we talked about what BQN is and how I’ve discovered it. In this part we will get a working setup going…

If you’re like me, you’re also aware of some programming languages out there which use squiggly characters instead of human readable text and you’ve also probably wonder what it is and how it works. Those weird unicode characters have always caught my…