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Continuing our Advent of Code adventure from last time. Let’s see what the next batch of puzzles has in store.  read full post

I figured I’d write about my coding adventures in the Advent of Code this year, and see how far I’ll make it this time. In case you’re not familiar, it’s an advent calendar containing a daily coding puzzle, starting from December 1st and continuing until the 25th. The puzzles tend to get more difficult over time, so I might not solve every single day.  read full post

This is a follow up to my previous post, Decoding the EU Digital Covid Certificate QR code. In that post, I looked at the contents of the EU’s international digital Covid QR code. In this post, I’ll be doing the same for the Dutch domestic CoronaCheck QR code.  read full post

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple of months, you’re probably aware that governments all over the world have been looking into digital Covid certificates as a way of facilitating freedom of movement and travel for anyone who can prove that they don’t have the cooties.  read full post

Exactly 5 years ago (to the day) I built a gaming PC. That PC has been my faithful gaming rig ever since. I’ve never upgraded even a single part, because it never seemed necessary. It could always run whatever I threw at it. But when upgrading finally did start to seem necessary, so much time had passed that it almost seemed like a waste to sink more money into such an old machine. I would have to upgrade so much stuff (e.g. upgrading the processor to a recent one required upgrading the motherboard, etc), that it made more sense (to me anyway) to just do a complete rebuild. It would simply be a matter of when.  read full post

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So .NET 5 was released earlier this week. This is the next .NET Core release after 3.1, and drops the “core” part from its name to signify that this is the singular .NET implementation going forward.  read full post