Finally finished Neal Stephenson's novel Termination Shock. My initial reaction is that I am glad it is over, and wish it had ended in half the time that it took me to read it. There are some great ideas present in the book, and interesting characters, but it never coalesced into a great book.

For as much as I enjoy his earlier works, there's only one book he's released in the last 15 years that I can say I enjoyed from beginning to end. It might be time I move him off my list of authors that I read everything by, as this is too many misses and not nearly enough hits.

The Atom repository was archived today. I was never a huge fan of the editor itself, but it did have some interesting ideas (at way to great of a performance cost).

At the very least, it gave us the wonderful color scheme of One Dark. When I'm not using my own custom color scheme, that's the one I reach for.

https://github.com/atom/atom

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A few days behind in Advent of Code. Just finished day 6, not too bad. Load up day 7 and start reading...

That escalated quickly.

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So this year, it took until day 5 for me to create a solution that I'm embarrassed to git push for the whole world to see.

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Today's AoC problem was a good excuse to mess with Swift's new RegexBuilder, and I kind of like it. It was interesting seeing the library able to handle type conversions itself without me having to do it all manually.

Perhaps a bit overkill ultimately for the problem, but was fun regardless.

Don't know why I always start Advent of Code, since I've yet to ever finish a full 25 days. But here we go again...

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