I’m still here…

A new interesting daytime job is eating away a lot of my time. 55 hours each week. Eat-sleep-family consumes another 70 hours. Producing the daily and weekly puzzles takes about 4 hours per week. Moderating 4 forums and keeping up with 3 others and keeping Sudopedia tidy takes 14 hours per week. That leaves 25 hours to do some Sudoku-related programming and website improvements. Choices need to be made.

The Lite page on SudoCue.net now has a Javascript helper. This gives me some hands-on experience with Javascript (needed for my daytime job) and it reduces traffic, because players do not need to make server roundtrips to check the results, add pencilmarks or apply filters. Given enough time, I could write a complete solver in Javascript. Interesting thought.

Other projects that I spent some time on:

Clueless Helper now supports the Samurai format, which is convenient for the many Samurai players.

Both a Samurai and a Clueless Explosion contest started on the website.

Lots of redesign work done on the SudoCue.net website. The soft blue-and-yellow theme is now consistent throughout the site. The pages and the tables look very smooth. To save bandwidth, the competition lists only show submission details for a single puzzle.