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There was originally a bug in the GAlib random number generator... if I remember correctly, the guy who identified it told me this was found (or demonstrated) by making a scatter p…

Gridogram is a word game where the goal is to trace words in a letter grid to find a hidden quote. Behind the scenes, creating the letter grids for quotes is not obvious: the linke…

Could happen to anyone, many thanks for addressing this quickly.

Find the famous quote in the grid of letters [1]: S A S I C T D E H Gridogram is a new word game, with a new quote to find each day hiding sometimes in an easy 3x3 grid, sometimes …

I had a lot of fun playing an Android game where you find words in a random grid of letters (like Boggle). Challenge for me was to find the longest word... and seeing which I misse…

I was a big fan of Wave. One aspect I really liked that I haven't seen in other apps is other people would see the letters/words you typed as you typed them, making for very active…

Really appreciate the feedback, and glad you like the quotations. I haven't settled on whether to add links, but the text not being selectable wasn't intentional - have pushed a ch…

Thank you! Would never expect anyone to find all the words, but the full alphabetised list is useful to help box in the yellow words that are in the quote. Some of the words in the…

Thank you! Yes it is tricky... what kind of shortcuts do you mean? One optimisation I've done to narrow the search space is account for symmetry, that's a shortcut in a sense.

I had a lot of fun playing an Android app where you have to find words in a random grid of letters (like Boggle). Challenge for me was to find the longest word... and seeing which …

And create a link to explain that command to others

If you don't have a terminal at hand: https://www.mankier.com/7/gittutorial https://www.mankier.com/7/giteveryday https://www.mankier.com/7/gitglossary https://www.mankier.com/7/gi…

Different data source, but a while ago I made a command to help explain other commands: https://www.mankier.com/blog/explaining-shell-commands-in-th...

I've spent a lot of time finding apps I trust enough to leave my kids mostly unsupervised with. For me it's mostly boiled down to finding trustworthy app publishers, I listed some …

I've integrated TLDR content into online man pages if you'd like to see both in one place. For example: https://www.mankier.com/1/grep

Sure, but that's much more work than adding a piece of black tape, which you can also simply remove to revert to the legit number.

Came across an instance of this recently, I think on the FT's website... It took me a while to figure out what was going on with "smar * * * * ches".