New award “Studious Student” in PHP

by on July 17, 2026 at 5:01 pm
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I just got another award on the PHP track. Studious Student means I looked at at least 50 community solutions. The tracks I am currently working on are Go at 69.09% (51 remaining), and PHP at 31.03% (80 remaining).

Sunday, I should have a make code arcade console from amazon delivered. I have tried to get local dev setup so I don’t have to sign onerous agreements. So far I can run it but not compile it to a binary. I think I need to install more stuff.

I thought it might be neat if I made a few games for it. If I did, I could buy some more, upload my games to them and maybe give some away to tech minded kids for Christmas. Just a thought not sure if I will get that far. A bouncing logo is all I have made so far.

New award “Prolific Padawan” in PHP

by on July 6, 2026 at 1:50 pm
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I am still rough around the edges in PHP. I am only learning it for resume fodder. Today I did some regex just because I could. It was strange that the GO and PHP track both got the Crypto Square exercise one after the other.

I still need two more PHP exercises before its percentage passes up what I did in the Ruby track years ago. I guess my numbers were off in the previous post. Anyway, a new trophy, hooray!

I really should learn Laravel if I am going to make PHP learning proper resume fodder. Can you think of any web apps that are easy but not a to-do list? I may go to the library and see if I can find a book on it.

Update from the next day: PHP is now ahead of Ruby in my exercism.org track rankings. Also similar to the Crypto Square synchronization from yesterday, I had Diamond exercise on PHP yesterday, and today it was the next exercise on the Go track. Spooky that you have the same exercise on two different tracks so close together two days in a row.

New award “Persistent Perfectionist” in GO

by on July 3, 2026 at 10:34 am
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Hey, I got yet another award. This time in GO for doing revisions to problem solutions. The changes were based on things I liked better that other people did in community solutions. Go me.

The PHP track is starting to catch up to the Ruby track, and may pass it in two exercises. Go is fourteen away from the two-thirds mark.

New award “Fundamental” in PHP

by on June 29, 2026 at 10:26 am
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I thought I had a ton of exercises left to get there, but today I finished learning mode in PHP and got the Fundamental award. Not sure I am getting the hang of PHP yet.

I had to go back and do a new exercise in C# since they ruined my 100% by adding a new exercise. That kicked my posterior. I think I am switching around between languages too much and it is confusing me more than making me a programming language polyglot.