• Some thoughts about Tetris

    Making an AI to play a game of Tetris competitively means having to watch it play many games to find out what is working and what is not working. I’ve watched more games of Tetris in the past week than I can count or remember, and not just my own...

  • Go Go GoBots!

    Riddles.io is codesports platform where you write bots in a language of your choice to play games in one of their hosted competitions. I’ve written bots that play Texas Hold’em poker, Ultimate Tic Tac Toe, and other games. I was recently on vacation in Arizona where I wrote down some...

  • Hooray for Goroutines!

    This post is more to test whether I high highlight source code for Go or not. I’ve really been enjoying learning and programming in Go recently. As I had mentioned in a previous Post I had worked through the “The Go Programming Language” book, and Chapter 8 is about Goroutines...

  • I love Go

    Last month I ordered the UNIX sticker Pro Pack from Sticker Mule for $1. One of the stickers was of this cute little guy: My daughter saw the sticker and asked me about it and I had to admit I had no idea what it was. I did a quick...

  • Installing a Ring 2 Doorbell

    Our car was stolen out of our driveway last October. We discovered the car missing at 9 am, and reported the theft to the police. By 12:30 pm they had been to the house to take a statement. At 3:30 pm that day we got a call from the police...