Why do logins insist on timing out a login after a few weeks. I have seen both exercism and wordpress do it. Well today exercism did it. I thought I could just login with my github credentials but that just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
100 Days of Code 2026
57 comics.
Today’s exercise was line up which was largely simple string substitution with a few edge cases. This one was specified nicely but they really should tell you the type and order of parameters to the function. I shouldn’t have to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was pangram (a word/phrase that includes every letter of the alphabet [a-z] at least once [case-insensitive]). I thought I was showing off by using several higher order functions. It looks like the higher order function I should have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was Space Age. You calculate your age based on the year length for each planet in the solar system (orbital periods are given). For being such a simple exercise it sure took a while. That was largely due[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was RNA transcription. Pretty easy. Looks like everyone had almost the exact same solution as me, just the variable names were different. I downloaded BGB a GameBoy emulator good for debugging, and RGBDS, a Gameboy Development system as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I couldn’t get motivated until late in the day. Anyway today’s exercise was gigasecond. Basically for a given date return a new date a million seconds later. Dates are stored as milliseconds past a given epoc so you just add[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A clanker got on my case for my solution to today’s exercise. My solution was correct but I could have done it with more compact syntax. The exercise was really easy so I actually did two more. Well I finished[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was Recycling Robot which was about JavaScript’s type checking functions. Nice and straightforward for the most part. Some of the explanations of what they wanted led me down the wrong path but I managed. Oh, and I was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I finished all of the learning exercises (I think) on the Javascript track and passed up the Ruby track in percent complete. Today’s exercise was named Captains Log and was about using Math.random() in Javascript. I am not entirely sure[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I am one fifth complete. Anyway today’s exercise was Appointment Time which was about Date/Time handling in Javascript. It had a big warning to use a better library but not Moment.js since it is unsupported and deprecated I seem to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…