It's rained nearly every day since the start of 2026 in Devon. On January 27th the River Otter reached it's highest recorded level. The picture below was taken from the footbridge in Ottery St Mary that afternoon. The river was around a metre off its peak at this point, but…
This year's Advent of Code was reduced to 12 days of puzzles. Thankfully, as I managed to complete the last puzzle I had outstanding (Day 10, part 2) a couple of days ago. In previous years I've skipped puzzles that took me a lot of effort, thinking that I'd have…
Happy new year! This year's resolution is to blog a little more frequently, so I thought I'd start with a retrospective of last December's Advent of Code. I chose Fortran as my language (mostly 77, with a couple of forrays into 90 when I needed recursion). During Advent I managed…
After my post on Turbo Pascal et al, someone suggested that I try using the Digital Research CBASIC compiler - so I have done! The CBASIC dialect seems like a mashup of ideas from other BASICs, FORTRAN and Pascal. For example, line numbers are only required if they're going to…
It's now the end of January and I'm still obsessed. Not so much with the Advent of Code problems themselves, but seeing what solutions might look like in other languages under CP/M 2.2. The two languages I've tried so far are the FTL (HiSoft) Modula-2 compiler, version 1.30 and Manx…
In December I took part in the annual 'Advent of Code' event. I originally wrote my solutions using Free Pascal on a Raspberry Pi 4 and ended up with 42 gold stars out of 50 - my best performance yet. Christmas came and Santa brought me an RC2040 - a…