The front of an Izakaya we passed by in Fukuoka.

Thinking About More Structured Story Telling

Now that we’re officially in the UK, and I’m tantalizingly close to being able to claim my front-end web development certificate (woot!), my mind has started drifting to the steps that will be at hand before the end of the year, especially job hunting and interviewing. While my mind is fresh with these ideas, I’ll leave some notes here for when job-hunting time comes around for me. Perhaps it’ll be of use to someone else before then.

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A field mouse I rescued from a water-logged tarp while helping the neighbouring farmer.

Ce n’est qu’un au revoir

Et oui, nous habitons désormais ailleurs qu’en France. Suite à presque six mois dans le nord-ouest français, nous voici les pieds posés à Bristol, Royaume Uni. Tout pleins de bons souvenirs de notre séjour de l’autre bord de la Manche, j’ai eu quelques pensées pour les hôtes, les voisins, les chiens et les chats que nous avons pu apprendre à connaître tandis que Lars cherchait un emploi (cause de notre récent déménagement !

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A generic picture of code on a monitor

Eating Bitter Is Nice

It was far past midnight. My wife and kids had long gone to bed. But sleep was not an option for me. I had to figure it out. So I tweaked the code again, for the googolth time, and hit run. Hmm, looks promising. If I click here, the program should call the “compute next move” function. Yes. And if I click here, that function should call itself. Good. Now, if I click here, I should get…not that.

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