Bits By Brad

A few weeks ago, I started running Linux full time again (specifically, Ubuntu 20.04). I also decided to use the i3 window manager. I haven’t run this setup since college, so I had to re-learn (read: re-google) a lot of the solutions, tips, and tricks I found before that made... [Read More]

Recently I stumbled upon the The Odds API which provides betting odds for all types of sporting events from baseball to cricket to rugby. This is the first site I’ve seen that actually has an API for retrieving the odds (for free). Most places I’ve seen force you to download... [Read More]

About a month and a half ago, I discovered the Advent of Code. If you have not heard of it, it is a series of programming challenges developed by Eric Wastl. Eric is nice enough to provide an advent calendar of programming problems each year, releasing one per day from... [Read More]

When I started my first full-time job as a software engineer out of college, I frequently had discussions with my fellow new-hires about our technical adventures up to that point. At one point, two of them mentioned something called a “monad” and went back and forth about it for a... [Read More]

A few months ago I started learning Rust, and in the process I ended up contributing to an open source project for the first time. It turned out to be a great vehicle for learning Rust, so in this post I’d like to go over what I did and why... [Read More]