January 04, 2018

Hashcode 2017

Long ago, I meant to write about this. I took part in the Hashcode 2017 online round with Cian Ruane. He did a great write-up of our entry! We came 1st in Ireland, and 164th globally, and had a lot of fun. Go read his

April 15, 2017

Students in CPSSD Provide 72% of Ireland's Total Score on Kattis

Kattis is an online programming problem archive that gives you points for each problem you solve in relation to how difficult the problem is. It then aggregates the total points of people within a university, and within a country, based on an adjusted sum of

April 09, 2017

30 Day Music Challenge: What music I listen to vs. What I think I do

The following image was floating around the internet this month (in varying degrees of blurriness): The goal is to share a song on social media for each day of the month of April matching the respecting description. Being the wannabe music fan I am, I

April 03, 2017

123rum123 at the IrlCPC 2017

The Irish Collegiate Programming Contest (IrlCPC) 2017 was held on Saturday, 25th of March, in sunny University College Cork. I was competing with two of my housemates, Cian Ruane, and Ross O'Sullivan. Myself, Cian Ruane, and Stefan Kennedy came 2nd place at the IrlCPC last

February 26, 2017

Hack the Dot Dublin

On Wednesday the 22nd of February, I took to the southside to take part in Hack the Dot, a domain-name-driven hackathon organised and hosted by Rightside. I am a big domain name watcher, and a vocal fan of the new generic TLDs. Rightside are a