Tootfinder

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

OMG, I'm having a laugh with Opus 4.8. They trained it to be more honest, but now it's like Jim Carrey in Liar Liar. Earlier it was like "I accidentally deleted all the work I just did, but it's okay - I fixed it." And now it's admitting every little mistake it makes. It's hilarious.

Pogacar Makes History!
Tadej joins
Jacques Anquetil,
Eddy Merckx,
Bernard Hinault,
Miguel Induršin,
to have won the #TdF 5 times!
chapeux!!
#TourdeFrance #cycling

'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/

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

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers:
🎵 I won't Back Down
#NowPlaying #TomPetty #TheHeartbreakers
https://open.spotify.com/track/27iMGHXJgPpow0yvzTbXIT

'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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Nu paus i Nackareservatet

TourdeFrance is feitelijk voorbij, spanning is weg, na etappe 6 van de 21. Geen sportliefhebber kan hier blij mee zijn. Al kun je Pogacar niets verwijten.
#wielrennen #tourdefrance

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers:
🎵 Learning To Fly
#NowPlaying #TomPetty #TheHeartbreakers
https://open.spotify.com/track/17S4XrLvF5jlGvGCJHgF51