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Helping software teams work well together
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Also, please do NOT self-exclude if you think your platform is small or that you don't have one, or you are junior career or not a developer. I like sending things to YOU, too. Sharing one thing with friends and coworkers once in a while is enough to count as sharing an impression :)
December 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Hey! You! Do you like... learning things? Do you like... laughing?? Do you like... being that annoying person in the conversation who gets to say "um ACTUALLY Einstein wasn't even that smart he couldn't even swim and he KEPT falling in the ocean and making people save him"?

Then you'll LOVE my book
November 8, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Featuring Nine Inch Nails, a book about Pentium assembly instructions, and my dog Archie.

@jukes.ie once gave advice that you should write for an audience of one: your future self. I certainly seem to be taking that to heart, not sure who else would care about this bunch of things :)
December 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Research on how others have tackled this

youtu.be/hFZFjoX2cGg?...
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Or solving it all on an actual Commodore 64!

clb.confined.space/aoc2023/
At first I thought it was a bog crazy endeavour. But still, quite a lot of fun!
clb.confined.space
November 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Or, how about using only spreadsheet functions!

medium.com/@presactlyal...
Advent of Code in a Spreadsheet
A practical way to learn and practice with Google Sheets
medium.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
For example, look at this: a different language for every day of the challenge! Including the Shakespeare Programming Language!

quantumochre.com/blog/advent-...
Quantum Ochre
quantumochre.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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The reason the Faewild is the Faewild is that it's a git repo where the owner just accepts every single pull request reflexively. The only thing which stops a Fae from getting accidentally poofed from existence is a contract with beings on another plane (it's a legacy dependency, can't delete).
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Reminds me of this classic Kate Bush interview

(All I have is this saved screenshot someone sent me, the actual interview may or may not exist...)
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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"Let's hope it's a divorce", "He's NOT a rabbit, he's a little boy! We'll call him Jeffrey, okay?"

Brilliant
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM