Got my best start ever on Advent of Code this year – fourteen for fourteen so far! Sticking with Ruby this time. I don’t care at all about speed or getting on the main leaderboard, but we do have an internal one at work that you can actually make a dent on.

Lovely white elephant party with friends, with the twist that your gift had to be something you just had lying around the house. Congratulations to the lucky new owner of this gem from Read Receipts (sorry, it’s sold out):

Barely started on holiday shopping otherwise, which felt dire until I remembered that we all used to buy things right up til the 23rd and 24th every year, and “you need to be done by the first week of December” is entirely an artifact of the shift to e-commerce.

If I still had the hat, I’d be wearing it backwards, as the week ended with a visit from everyone’s favorite novel coronavirus. Wishing good health to you from my isolation cave 🤒.