It’s just over a week until Advent of Code 2025 starts, here is my usual post about my approach for this year. This time, I’m going back to a past tactic of trying to learn a new language at the same time as solving the problems, I don’t really have the time to do this but I didn’t want to go another year where I use a …

It’s not long to wait now, Advent of Code will soon begin. For 2025 there are changes with fewer challenges and the removal of the global leaderboard. This is the fourth year I’ve posted about taking part in Advent of code and this year the event will be different. Eric Wastl recently posted that this year Advent of …

Learn how to configure your local machine to use different Git user details and SSH keys for your work and personal projects. No more mixed identities! A few years ago, I started to see some odd behaviour in our work git repository. I had made a commit to my fork of a repo and raised a pull request but this was shown …

The build pipeline for this site recently failed so I had to work out why and learn about updating Hugo sites. I recently wrote my yearly Advent of Code post, committed it to git and pushed to GitHub only to have the build pipeline that triggers, fail: The errors are around the use of deprecated functionality in the …

The countdown has now begun for Advent of Code and it’s time to start getting ready for the challenges ahead. This year I’m breaking from my usual tactic of trying to learn a new language and instead I’ll be using a language I’ve used before albeit one which I now have more experience with. So this year, my language of …

Sometimes files get committed to Git that shouldn’t be. We all do it. This post will cover a process on how to remove the mistake without losing the entire repository history. As covered in other posts, I like to do the Advent of Code puzzles. This year though I learnt that the creator of AoC had asked for the puzzle …

A while ago I attempted AOC using Python as I needed to learn Python for a change in my role. Now that I’m 18 months into working with Python, I think that getting the AoC repo set up correctly from the beginning would have been a big boost to getting things consistent. In this post we will look at the tools that I …

It’s that time of year again with Advent of Code on the horizon, this year I will be mostly using TypeScript As with last year), I’m going to attempt Advent of Code to see how far I get. This year has been a lot busier though so I’m not anticipating getting very far unless the problems are really easy and quick to …

It’s almost time for Advent of Code and I’m going to try some of the challenges again this year, this time I’m trying Go though. I first heard of Advent of Code a few years ago but never had the time/inclination to give it a go until 2019, when I earned the grand sum of 2 stars. Last year though I had an ideal …

I decided to add Google Analytics to this site, luckily the Clarity theme makes this quite easy. This post details the update required to make Google Analytics work. One of the features I quite liked about Blogger was the ability to see site traffic for my blog posts. I never did this for vanity reasons, I always knew …