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- Finally got round to doing #AoC2023 Day 3 before work.
- Starting to actively box in "greedy" commitments that demand attention and time, and disrupt the well-behaved projects. I'm working towards a much less reactive daily workflow. Keep #sente, avoid gote.
- A fun aspect of #AdventOfCode is the second part of each day's puzzle which you don't get to see until you successfully complete the first part. If you write your code for Part 1 in a modular way that's easy to reuse and refactor, Part 2 is sometimes really easy. Happy that this worked out for me today
- A year ago I would have been very uncertain about the role of an Industrial Engineer in a technology development firm like Octoco. We've just hired our second one, and my current "golden ratio" is 1 IE per ~20 Software/Electronic engineers – for us, these are the people who engineer our work processes; both internal and external.
- Some admin before bedtime, then finished AoC Day 4, Part 1. Set types in #OCaml are finicky at first, what with comparator witnesses and all, but really powerful and concise.