Working with leetcode problems, to keep a sharp mind, while utilizing LLMs and new technology at work without compromising my cognition. And also stubborness to let go of the past. I just love coding. I don't know if the reader understands or cares, but it is what it is.
Have you ever tried leetcode, I and doing it after years, and it has made me happy again. This was the reason I joined in the first place. I wanted to build algorithms, make equations and find crazy ways of solving a particular problem. And then spending long time (someime hours), to optimize it to run faster and with smaller amount of memory.
But that has mostly changed at work. I was a web dev most of my journey, it was okaish paying, easy to enter and start the (rat)race. But before I could jump into this beautiful world of C and system calls, some nerds in silicone valley decided otherwise.
But rather than completely becoming an isolated person and start living in the woods, I decided to balance it. Basically by using AI at work(as responsibly as allowed), as the employer wants, and to ship fast, but if forced I also do slop, while trying my best to deliver clean and maintainable code. And while in my personal zone, I code like this. I can build my own products from scratch (Which might be absolete before launching), or justt building fun stuff, which I previously never had the chance to. Fun stuff like checking out graphics libraries, and game dev and spell chacker. So many ideas.
I have started doing C code exactly because of that. Learning memory management, system calls, execution rings and more. I recently studied Ken Thompson's paper "Reflections on Trusting Trust", and it's fascinating and increased my thirst for learning beyond just code. Pure Computer Science.
I am going to keep on this journey for the love of computers, and continue working on my personal hobbies like this. This makes sure I keep up with the work environment trends, and align with what is needed, while staying sharp and not selling my sould to the AI overlords, and becoming more valuable. So its more than just hobby. It's philosophical as well. This has made me more human. I can see myself learning assembly in the future, far or near. And even learn CPU architecture, thigns that I might have ignored during university.
Anyways this is my rant, it was supposed to be just a readme about my repo but things got out of hand. So you can read my solutions, suggest improvements or something I could learn to write a solution better.
Thank you. (Coding is meditation)