What's the point then?

I think it's a joke about (or rather, a dig at) night mode. I'd seen the blog and that "dark mode" on a previous post about syntax highlighting where he'd mentioned he preferred light mode.

I only wrote code for !advent_of_code@programming.dev which is so different to my usual tasks that it feels like a break.

I don't understand why venison isn't on the menu more often in the UK. When I do see it, it's often on the special board, or in less mainstream restaurants. It's tasty, healthy and sustainable so what's that problem?

I hope it wasn't a long drive, thank you for putting us ahead of your own plans.

It would be the best merch anyone ever offered.

I just looked and found this, is it you or a freeloader? https://www.redbubble.com/shop/unix_surrealism

I'm thinking of it the same way, and not having the readers be trade secrets but published specs is good for future digital archeologists.

For example, Dyson uses trade secrets instead of patents, so it would be harder to recreate their tech in the future.

Edit: patents not parents 🤦

"We are a technology licensing company"

This is good news from the point of view of being able to create devices that can read these crystals; as a comment on the linked site says:

The realistic lifetime of storage is the life of the last manufactured or surviving retrieval device.

What to do with people who jump the queue?

Yeah, it's quite a mean trick really - kinda a big middle finger to anyone who does TDD

Are words in a poem lyrics?

Mild spoilers ahead, but you're reading the solutions thread.

I was just doing some preliminary checking of the data on my phone with Nushell (to see how much my ageing laptop would suffer) when I discovered there weren't any non trivial cases.

Normally I get the test data working before trying the input data, this is definitely teaching me the value of investigating the data before heading down into the code mines.

Unfortunately I can't get the second star yet because I missed a few days.