In past years, I’ve done what I’ve called the Thanksgiving challenge, where I just hole up by myself at home and code for the entirety of the Thanksgiving weekend. That didn’t happen this year; or at least, not like that. Instead, I went upstate, which was probably a better option for my mental health. I… Continue reading Thanksgiving challenge: articles edition
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Thanksgiving challenge, bots edition
It is getting to be time for my annual post about the Thanksgiving Challenge. Previous editions of this post can be found here, here, and here. Basically, the challenge is to spend the entire Thanksgiving long weekend coding by yourself. I’ve already covered the questionable productivity benefits (and very real mental health downsides) of doing… Continue reading Thanksgiving challenge, bots edition
The thanksgiving challenge, revisited
In 2021, I posted about how I was planning to stay home by myself for the Thanksgiving weekend and work on writing code for my Open Journal Matcher project. I then went on about how great it was. So this year I’m going to do the Thanksgiving programming challenge again. The premise is simple: stay… Continue reading The thanksgiving challenge, revisited
Thanksgiving debrief
So I followed through on my plan to spend the Thanksgiving holiday by myself, working on the Open Journal Matcher. It went fine. I put in four straight days in front of vim, and I’m pretty sure that I more or less cracked the problem that I was trying to solve. The goal was to… Continue reading Thanksgiving debrief
Thanksgiving
I’m going to spend this Thanksgiving weekend at home by myself, with my dog to keep me company. When I tell people this, they promptly invite me to their family’s celebration in New Jersey or some such. But I’m actually really excited to spend the weekend at home alone. I’m going to focus on a… Continue reading Thanksgiving
