It's 2026, and today I submitted a patch file, for a COBOL project using svn, on SourceForge.

https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/patches/71/

A 13-year evolution of Android: what 700+ Android Weekly newsletters reveal about Rx, Compose, and other trends:

https://medium.com/@ms.carmen.alvarez/a-13-year-evolution-of-android-what-700-android-weekly-newsletters-reveal-about-rxjava-compose-cd3125ef6b21

#Android #androiddev

Finished Advent of Code 2024.

25 days of exercises, parts 1 and 2. Done over a period of 1.5 months, mostly on weekends.

In COBOL.

Was it worth it? 😅

Some exercises were tough! Some took several days. I wasn't sure I'd be able to complete it. The subreddit was helpful for those days!

So will I participate next year? 🤔 Which language? Fortran? 😄

My solutions (not very clean code! 🙈): https://github.com/caarmen/aoc

#cobol #adventofcode #adventofcode2024

A reminder that reading the docs can save time in the end. Who knew? 😅

Here's a little writeup of an adventure I had with Advent of Code, realizing after a few days of debugging and imposter syndrome that no, I don't need to implement an XOR function, it exists in the language. 😁 Also learned a thing or two about COBOL in the process!

https://medium.com/@ms.carmen.alvarez/advent-of-cobol-when-in-doubt-rtfm-2ce5571d36c2

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