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October 7th War Posted on 16 Oct 2023
In September, I made a decision to finally publish many blog posts I have drafted over the years and focus on polishing them to be ready to publish rather than writing new content. I used some PTO to prepare over 10 posts and will publish them eventually, however that will not be happening anytime soon. On October 7th, Hamas launched a large-scale terrorist attack on Israeli civilians living along the Gaza border. They murdered over 1,300 civilians and committed atrocities while abducting over 200 women, children, and elderly to the Gaza Strip where they are being held as hostages.
Unholy Grail: Duff's FizzBuzz Posted on 02 Oct 2023
I would like to describe the unholy grail of FizzBuzz: an implementation that uses Duff’s Device. Gunnar Morling gave a good writeup about using SIMD in Java 16 to solve FizzBuzz. Mikael Kragbæk gave us the enterprise FizzBuzz. I want to contribute to that glorious tradition and give the world Duff’s FizzBuzz:
Cooking: Honey Cake Posted on 26 Sep 2023
Rosh HaShanah (the Jewish New Year) has many traditional foods, and this year I made a honey cake with my kids. I don’t have a family recipe for this, and I despise following a single recipe blindly. So I decided to develop my own recipe by looking at several options online, comparing them, and estimating what I would want mine to look like. I despise recipe blog bullshit, so here’s the recipe: