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• Author: Stephen Ball
• Published: 2024-08-23
• Permalink: /blog/game-of-life-functional-programming

In this post I describe how to implement Conway's Game of Life using functional programming to be able to transform a set of cells into the next iteration.

• Author: Stephen Ball
• Published: 2024-08-18
• Permalink: /blog/an-elixir-phoenix-based-multiplayer-minesweeper

How I wrote the minesweeper game, Mowing, you can play from the games menu.

• Author: Stephen Ball
• Published: 2023-12-31
• Permalink: /blog/rewriting-strange-leaflet-in-phoenix-and-livesvelte

Another rewrite of Strange Leaflet? Yes! Still with the power of Svelte but now with Phoenix on the backend.

• Author: Stephen Ball
• Published: 2023-10-01
• Permalink: /blog/running-kafka-locally-in-kubernetes-using-minikube

Let's run Kafka in Kubernetes using Minikube and then connect to a topic using kcat running on our host machine.

• Author: Stephen Ball
• Published: 2023-09-07
• Permalink: /blog/rebooting-this-blog-in-svelte-and-sveltekit

In which I explain a bit of why and how I'm writing my personal blog in SvelteKit instead of a backend like Phoenix.

• Author: Stephen Ball
• Published: 2023-02-15
• Permalink: /blog/rewrite-my-protohackers-repo-as-an-umbrella-app

Commit a8bbfa9 from github.com/sdball/protohackers

• Author: Stephen Ball
• Published: 2023-02-12
• Permalink: /blog/add-more-otp-implementation-of-speed-daemon

Commit dd3e855 from github.com/sdball/protohackers

• Author: Stephen Ball
• Published: 2023-02-10
• Permalink: /blog/more-otp-solution-for-protohackers-problem-5

Commit 6688ae8 from github.com/sdball/protohackers