What are the best words to use as starting guesses when playing Josh Wardle’s popular game Wordle? I’ve crunched the numbers.
Life would be simpler if I had the source code
Category: Fun
A couple of weeks ago, early one morning, my friend and fellow coder Scott asked a curious question: “Do you think that programming computers for … Read more
Oh, the irony!
Benny George, our precocious two-year-old, is quite the fan of Mister Maker, and enjoys spending time doing arty crafty stuff with his mum. Now, the … Read more
I promised you some photos of my new office a while back, didn’t I? OK, here you go… The Desk The Computer One of These … Read more
So, base rates are now down to 1.0%, and the Zero Interest Bug is not just conjecture. From The Times: “About 1,500 customers who took … Read more
My good buddy John just published a typically navel-gazing post detailing the contents of his wallet, and went on to invite readers to divulge details … Read more
Ten years of professional software development have given me a healthy awareness of edge cases – I’m always trying to code defensively, validate input, catch … Read more
Wikipedia cracks me up sometimes. I’m sat here at my desk, trying to knock together some C# code to quickly validate an entered string as … Read more
Fifty-three years since Darrell Huff published the seminal How to Lie with Statistics, and still we have newspapers as august as The Times pulling the … Read more