Ryan Palo articles - 188 total
Sticker Swap!
I've got stickers. Who wants to swap?
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 25: Combo Breaker
We're hacking our hotel room on Christmas!
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 24: Lobby Layout
We're flipping tiles on a grid... a hexagonal one!
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 23: Crab Cups
We taught this crab how to play cards, and now he's hustling us using cups.
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 22: Crab Combat
We're teaching crustaceans to play Combat (a.k.a. War) and simulating the whole thing.
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 21: Allergen Assessment
Checking ingredients using exceptionally unreliable ingredient marking information.
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 20: Jurassic Jigsaw
Reassembling an image from partial tiles by matching the pixels on the edges!
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 19: Monster Messages
Have you ever been an elven regex interpreter? Do you want to be?
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 18: Operation Order
Parsing math, but throwing PEMDAS right out the window.
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 17: Conway Cubes
It's Conway! In 3 dimensions!
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 16: Ticket Translation
We're validating train tickets in foreign languages with the help of some process of elimination.
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 15: Rambunctious Recitation
Playing number memory games with elves. Predicting iterations. I thought we were on vacation!
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 14: Docking Data
Boat bits! We're twiddling boat bits!
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 13: Shuttle Search
Put your algorithm pants on: we're dealing with staggered multiples and busses and literally quadrillions of timesteps.
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 12: Rain Risk
Another grid, but this time, we’re driving a boat through a storm.
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 11: Seating System
Conway would be proud of our seating chart!
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 10: Adapter Array
Now we're playing with electrical plugs. Hope we don't get *jolted!*
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 9: Encoding Error
Who doesn't love plugging in and hacking cryptic data exchange formats?
Advent of Code Megathread Comment Tracker!
I made a tool that helps me tabulate which languages were used which days and I'm really happy with how it turned out.
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 8: Handheld Halting
We're debugging machine code! Hooray!
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 7: Handy Haversacks
We've got bags! And those bags are in other bags, and there's a shiny gold one and...
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 6: Custom Customs
Now we're helping our fellow passengers fill out questionnaires! Who knew vacations had so many forms?
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 5: Binary Boarding
We're using binary thinking to figure out what seat is ours, like your typical holiday traveler does.
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 4: Passport Processing
Today, we're blending in with normal non-North Pole people who have actual passports. By hacking! Sort of.
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 3: Toboggan Trajectory
In day three, we've got a 2D grid, trees, and a toboggan, and we're going to be churning powder on some rational slopes.
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 2: Password Philosophy
Day 2 involves some password policies likely not recommended by security experts.
Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 1: Report Repair
The first day of Advent of Code 2020! We're going on vacation this time. What could go wrong?
Building an Automatic Measuring Table: Part 0
Introducing a new project. I'm building a robot table/tape measure!
Awestruck by C Structs
Learn to harness more powerful multi-field data structures in C.
Control HTML Video Playback Speed with the Console
University video element doesn't have playback speed controls? No problem! Pop open a console and do your wizard stuff.