I was working on a Codewars problem not too long ago, and I wanted to write about my solution to it. Partly because it was an interesting problem, but also because it reminded me of a puzzle I once did in a Professor Layton game.

Here’s the original prompt:

The Open Systems Interconnection model, or OSI model, breaks down how information and requests are sent from one computer to another, starting at the user making a request and ending at that information traveling over some transmission medium. …

I recently did my first contribution to an open source project, and I wanted to share some of the resources and sites I used. I had looked into doing this before, but all the resources and things I wanted to know all seemed too spread out, it was hard to…

Unless you’re doing something awfully specialized, I’d bet most of your code doesn’t explicitly use binary in it. Most of what you’re writing is probably closer to human languages, and if there’s any binary involved, it’s beneath layers of abstraction. …

I’ve written a few articles on abstract data types, and there was a sort of natural flow from one topic to the next: start with nodes, then linked lists, then queues and stacks, and then trees and graphs. Each of these structures have some sort order to their elements, and…

I’m not a psychologist, but I have played modern free-to-play and mobile games, so I know what it’s like to be in a psychology experiment. Surely having had hundreds (read: thousands) of hours of the experiment conducted on me should give me some grounds to speak on the topic. Whether…

It occurred to me the other day that I was quite comfortable converting numbers from decimal to and from binary. But then I was trying to recall how you convert decimal numbers to and from hexadecimal, or simply “hex”, and then it occurred to me that I had totally forgotten…