On the topic of #bitboards :
I have come across https://www.chessprogramming.org which has hacks to do things with 8x8 bitboards. In one of my blog posts I explain how I used bitboards in an AoC puzzle. It got me thinking, that I would like to write a little library, that supports some more operations like flipping and rotating bitboards. But not only 8x8, as it is not a chess library.

Do you know a well explaining resource about general methods for bitboards of arbitrary sizes?

#programming #coding

Had an idea and wrote a little tool to recursively check my website for broken links in #guile: https://codeberg.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/guile-link-checker Glad to have found ... none!

On the way I got some help on the IRC channel solving some issues I already had previously using guile's web client. Now I can also use that from a #guix shell, nicely reproducibly.

#computerprogramming #freesoftware #coding

Wrote a longer blog "Optimizing a Grid Thing" post about my solution for an #adventofcode puzzle from 2024 (day 14, part 1): https://web.xiaolong-hosting.com/blog/post/optimizing-a-grid-thing

#guile #functionalprogramming #bitboard #computerprogramming #coding

I finally got around to rebuilding my website using #Python #Django and #reStructuredText . It is now allows me to easily write about projects and write blog posts.

One of my biggest and most useful (to me) hobby projects is my language learning tool #xiaolongdictionary . The last couple of days I have written about the tool and its features extensively [1].

I think I will still improve the writing and extend it in the future.

[1]: https://web.xiaolong-hosting.com/projects/project/xiaolong-dictionary

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