A Rust Wordle/Lingo style word solver library with a basic command line tool to show how it is used. A whopping 58kb of source code including the readme and comments. 3.5kb for lib.rs. (excluding comments). I would like to avoid clones but most of the solutions were as bad and they are very small clones. I would like to work towards being more idiomatic.
Wordle 1,630 3/6* β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬› β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 5 December, 2025 (It's one par not because it's easy but because there is a logic and people can guess. I enjoyed it. My rude now with 1 par ones is to try not to overthink.) "Clients cast non-speaking character in scene?" (6,1) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 πŸ† 0 hints – 1 under the community par (36,270 solvers so far).
Wordle 1,629 3/6* πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 4 December, 2025 (I found this one very difficult. Too msny choices can be a bad thing. Which is a platitude best stated as too many choices are a bad thing when it interferes with the task at hand or, in the worst case, becomes the task at hand. Obviously an abundance of choice is subjective. It's like operating systems, cameras, or cars, or musical instruments, or anything else mostly defined by what people do with them, rather than getting bogged down with what they are and how to use them. I'm procrastinating and there is a rant forming like borborygmi.) ""Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" karaoke practice progressing bit-by-bit" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 πŸ† 0 hints – 2 under the community par (38,493 solvers so far).
This. To me it felt like a sci fi golden age plot wrapped in enough classical knowledge to make it approachable for people who are, often, snobby about sci fi. I'm sure that wasn't the author's intention. A good book but I'm not sure about great. Because I've been somewhat busy I have read quick reads recently like Jesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin Myers, Brat by Gabriel Smith and Strange Houses by Uketsu. In descending order of enjoyment. The ones I didn't enjoy aren't mentioned. View quoted note β†’
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The RTW MP.
Wordle 1,628 4/6* (1/3 on 3, but more like 1/2 because one wasn't a very NYT word) β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 3 December, 2025 (I'm not complaining because I was woken by a call from abroad, scammers, using a VoIP service in Germany., but this was an easier clue. I am looking forward to breakfast and tea. The bigger question, aside from why Lua isn't more ubiquitous, is whether Tunbridge Wells will have water by Christmas and how many restaurants, small businesses, go bust in between. Not to mention care homes, the elderly, and other vulnerable people currently without water. 4 days with little or no tap water in a modestly prosperous part of a developed country. There's plenty of bottled water available, but washing with bottled water is inefficient. Water weighs 1kg per litre, the caps are not arthritis, or other impediment, friendlly, and if it can happen here it will happen elsewhere. Carrying a lot of water on foot is difficult for frail people. Aside from that it's all quite efficient and people are taking in in their stride- our local MP, Mike Martin, is doing a good job and his X account tells a story.) "False image in which water finally appears!?" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 πŸ† 0 hints – 1 under the community par (34,820 solvers so far).
Wordle 1,627 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 2 December, 2025 (everything is slower because I've only slept for about an hour and a half probably under that. BRB operating machinery.) "Sitting in class, I'm pleading for a piece of cake" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 πŸ† 0 hints – 1 under the community par (41,755 solvers so far).
Just accidentally put a space between 'rm -rf nvim/.local' and instead typed 'rm -rf nvim .local'. Nuking my Distroboxes, my Podman pods/container structure, but blessedly little of my data. I have backups but it is not going to be a fun night. It's going to be very tedious. 100% my fault. Totally idiotic. I'm going to link rm to some kind of kid friendly version next install. It was run as a standard user, not root, showing both the inherent advantages and drawbacks to Podman in the hands of a tired idiot.
Wordle 1,626 3/6* β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 1 December, 2025 (yes. My feeling about LLM based AI are complicated. Computers, and computing in general are very useful boosters of human productivity and ways to spread knowledge in all forms. But the training data is, seemingly deliberately, often opaque, which is unfair because copyrighted material, including FOSS licensed material,, are sucked in as training data and laundered. At a minimum it's the equivalent of a person borrowong images or text from somewhere and changing it enough that they can claim it as their own. Which is impolite, bad form, and doesn't reward people for making and sharing because the reward is useable or useful things they can use and be attributed to. Furthermore in India and other places various companies are trialling bundling relatively premium AI subscriptions, cheaply, with phone contracts. That is not altruism. It's the standard playbook of offering it cheap now and being forced, by market and stakeholder financial pressure, to squeeze increasing monetisation from it later and the training data gathered from the inputted work of hundreds of millions of young Indians. There is a cognitive balance between reading and doing and the "forgetting curve" is a real thing. For lazy people and those who haven't learnt to learn it's going to make them dumber and for those who have learnt to learn it's going to make them smarter. Good questions are a skill. Added to the fact that, following the form of all other microelectronics from the 1960s onwards, the underlying technology will obsolete itself every few years making ROI calculations, let alone productivity and profitabity claims very, very, difficult to predict and dubious. And one of the early waves of attack on Bitcoin was the power consumption. The power required to produce AI slop videos alone will shit on that. Apart from that AI is great especially for smart people and those with existing knowledge. It will level up a lot of people who otherwise would not get the chance to learn. Not checked for spelling or grammar. T'is not robogabber.) "Neo-liberal produces writing with a lot of feeling?" (7) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 πŸ† 0 hints – 2 under the community par (25,938 solvers so far).