CodeCrafters is a site where one can complete a number of programming challenges. Challenges include:
Each challenge is broken into a number of steps, with an extensive test suite triggered by the command codecrafters submit which:
Top Spin was a puzzle in which 20 beads were placed on an oval track with a turntable, such that any four consecutive beads could be flipped. Naturally, I wondered whether it was possible to reverse the order of the beads, from [0, 1, ..., 19] to [19, 18, ..., 0].
As it turns out, this is possible even if the beads are placed on a straight track instead of an oval one.
I wanted to create a new personal website using MkDocs, as my old website was based on Academic Pages, a Ruby-based template, and I am infinitely more familiar with Python. As part of this migration, I wanted a way to automate my Publications page from a BibTeX file.