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Just wrote a fun little algorithm for iterating through all grid positions within X euclidean distance from a center, roughly in order of distance but also mostly ensuring each position yielded is at least diagonally adjacent to the previous. It's a fun problem to think about with lots of design tradeoffs and many valid solutions.
My solution requires that the origin be on the grid (I think?) and uses a bunch of caching instead of a bajillion distance checks, although I don't actually know what the memory/speed tradeoff is like or whether there are any gains at all (could be net losses, which I'm starting to wonder about more as I write this post). Thankfully I don't expect performance to be very critical here anyways, and doing the caching actually helped separate some logic in a useful way.
A fun little diversion from bigger stuff in the project and a reminder of some of the joys of programming design at a small scope. Feels kinda like mastering the local town's minigame while you're stuck on the main quest in an RPG.
#programming

Almost every year since 2015, Idaho children in a faith-healing sect have died of treatable conditions such as pneumonia and bacterial infections that turned to sepsis. 

Church Doctrine: Former members of the Followers of Christ sect say parents are pressured to follow doctrine that forbids medical care. Those who stray risk shunning, they said.

No Legal Pressure: Oregon officials say after the state put legal boundaries on faith healing, more parents sought care for …

These Children’s Deaths Were Preventable. Their Parents Prayed Instead of Seeking Medical Care.
For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care. Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of treatable conditions.

Pogacar Makes History!
Tadej joins
Jacques Anquetil,
Eddy Merckx,
Bernard Hinault,
Miguel Induršin,
to have won the #TdF 5 times!
chapeux!!
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'Yesteryear,' a tradwife satire, understands Christianity better than most Americans
https://religionnews.com/2026/06/29/yesteryear-is-a-tradwife-satire-its-also-a-strikingly-accurate-portrait-of-american-religion/

Programming language tradeoffs.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/language-tradeoffs

Programming language trade-offs
This article is also available in Serbo-Croatian This article is also available in Dutch There has been much discussion of late in Drupal about Object-Oriented Programming. That's not really surprising, given that Drupal 7 is the first version that has really tried to use objects in any meaningful way (vis, as something…

Anthropic merges the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, making Claude chat history available to Cowork unless users opt out (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/anthropic-claude-and-cowork-share-memories-now-unles…

Anthropic's Claude and Cowork will share memories about you now - unless you opt out
Anthropic is merging Claude chat and Cowork memory, raising privacy questions about what AI remembers and if it's worth the tradeoff.

Anthropic A.I. Model Finds Flaws in Tough-to-Crack Encryption Algorithms
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/politics/anthropic-ai-encryption-security-aes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1FA.wc91.u3H4zb5-tRdV&smid=url-share

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'Yesteryear,' a bestselling novel about tradwives, is spot on about American religion
https://religionnews.com/2026/06/29/yesteryear-is-a-tradwife-satire-its-also-a-strikingly-accurate-portrait-of-american-religion/

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