ben
@clews.id.au
Cloud Native Software Engineer in Hobart, Tasmania || Python & Golang || Kubernetes & GCP.
https://clews.id.au/
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I just completed all 12 days of Advent of Code 2025 🤘 #AdventOfCode
December 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I just completed all 12 days of Advent of Code 2025 🤘 #AdventOfCode
December 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
December 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
December 12, 2025 at 3:54 AM
December 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Advent of Code 2025 Day 8 introduced me to Kruskal's algorithm. Pairing it with Union-Find makes cycle detection nearly O(1). Wrote up how I understand it works.
clews.id.au/til/kruskal/
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December 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Advent of Code 2025 Day 8 introduced me to Kruskal's algorithm. Pairing it with Union-Find makes cycle detection nearly O(1). Wrote up how I understand it works.
clews.id.au/til/kruskal/
#AdventOfCode
clews.id.au/til/kruskal/
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December 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
December 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Advent of Code sent me down a rabbit hole and I rediscovered monotonic stacks. They’re great for “pick the best K items while maintaining order” problems.
clews.id.au/til/monotoni...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Advent of Code sent me down a rabbit hole and I rediscovered monotonic stacks. They’re great for “pick the best K items while maintaining order” problems.
clews.id.au/til/monotoni...
#AdventOfCode
clews.id.au/til/monotoni...
#AdventOfCode
Advent of Code taught me that Rust’s % operator isn’t modulo - it is remainder. For wrap-around math I ended up using rem_euclid() instead.
clews.id.au/til/rust-rem...
#Rust #AdventOfCode
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December 5, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Advent of Code taught me that Rust’s % operator isn’t modulo - it is remainder. For wrap-around math I ended up using rem_euclid() instead.
clews.id.au/til/rust-rem...
#Rust #AdventOfCode
clews.id.au/til/rust-rem...
#Rust #AdventOfCode
December 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Quick tip I stumbled upon: `python -m py_compile ` validates syntax without running code.
clews.id.au/til/python-s...
#Python
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#Python
December 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Quick tip I stumbled upon: `python -m py_compile ` validates syntax without running code.
clews.id.au/til/python-s...
#Python
clews.id.au/til/python-s...
#Python
So I was tired of installing massive C library dependencies just for type checking. Turns out Python's import system doesn't care if packages are real. Just create stub directories with type signatures and Pyright is happy. Fast setup, no bloat.
clews.id.au/til/type-stu...
#Python #TypeChecking
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#Python #TypeChecking
December 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
So I was tired of installing massive C library dependencies just for type checking. Turns out Python's import system doesn't care if packages are real. Just create stub directories with type signatures and Pyright is happy. Fast setup, no bloat.
clews.id.au/til/type-stu...
#Python #TypeChecking
clews.id.au/til/type-stu...
#Python #TypeChecking
December 5, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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December 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
You pour months into a project, and then it's gone. What's left?
I wrote about the lessons from the wreckage and the art of strategic indifference:
clews.id.au/posts/cancel...
I wrote about the lessons from the wreckage and the art of strategic indifference:
clews.id.au/posts/cancel...
Cancelled Projects and the Art of Strategic Indifference | Ben Clews
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September 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
You pour months into a project, and then it's gone. What's left?
I wrote about the lessons from the wreckage and the art of strategic indifference:
clews.id.au/posts/cancel...
I wrote about the lessons from the wreckage and the art of strategic indifference:
clews.id.au/posts/cancel...
Three days, one iPhone, and a BERT model. Challenge accepted!
Blog post here:
clews.id.au/posts/runnin...
Blog post here:
clews.id.au/posts/runnin...
April 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Three days, one iPhone, and a BERT model. Challenge accepted!
Blog post here:
clews.id.au/posts/runnin...
Blog post here:
clews.id.au/posts/runnin...
Well, shit. This is amazing.
brilliantcrank.com/eject-disk/
"You’re not burned out because you’re weak.
You’re burned out because you’ve been relevant, valuable, over-functioning for too long—inside systems that reward your ability to endure dysfunction and call it leadership."
brilliantcrank.com/eject-disk/
"You’re not burned out because you’re weak.
You’re burned out because you’ve been relevant, valuable, over-functioning for too long—inside systems that reward your ability to endure dysfunction and call it leadership."
Eject disk.
A manifesto for everyone stuck in the system that keeps crashing you.
What follows here isn’t a framework or a fix—it’s a declaration. A reckoning. And a call to return to ourselves before we try to ...
brilliantcrank.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Well, shit. This is amazing.
brilliantcrank.com/eject-disk/
"You’re not burned out because you’re weak.
You’re burned out because you’ve been relevant, valuable, over-functioning for too long—inside systems that reward your ability to endure dysfunction and call it leadership."
brilliantcrank.com/eject-disk/
"You’re not burned out because you’re weak.
You’re burned out because you’ve been relevant, valuable, over-functioning for too long—inside systems that reward your ability to endure dysfunction and call it leadership."
TIL: Installing PostGIS on PostgreSQL 16 (M1 Mac) isn't as straightforward as it seems. Wrote up my debugging notes: clews.id.au/posts/settin... #postgres #PostGIS
February 3, 2025 at 5:26 AM
TIL: Installing PostGIS on PostgreSQL 16 (M1 Mac) isn't as straightforward as it seems. Wrote up my debugging notes: clews.id.au/posts/settin... #postgres #PostGIS
🎄✨ Just finished my write-up on tackling Advent of Code 2024 💻💥
Check out my journey, lessons learned, and GitHub solutions here: clews.id.au/posts/advent...
#AdventOfCode
Check out my journey, lessons learned, and GitHub solutions here: clews.id.au/posts/advent...
#AdventOfCode
January 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
🎄✨ Just finished my write-up on tackling Advent of Code 2024 💻💥
Check out my journey, lessons learned, and GitHub solutions here: clews.id.au/posts/advent...
#AdventOfCode
Check out my journey, lessons learned, and GitHub solutions here: clews.id.au/posts/advent...
#AdventOfCode
I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2024... Better late than never! #AdventOfCode
January 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2024... Better late than never! #AdventOfCode
January 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM