Hello everyone. The time has come for my weekly diary.
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LeetCode 💻 6 hours 55 minutes
- Solved five problems
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Personal website 🌐 1 hour 13 minutes
- Moved Search Indexing forward a bit and checked how my visitor counter works
LeetCode
I solved five problems and reached problem number 188… This task broke me 🥴 Difficulty: Hard. I spent three hours trying to write code for it. But I couldn’t optimize the program to the required speed: my program passed 207 out of 211 tests online. However, I failed to pass the 208th test: I keep getting a Time Limit Exceeded ⌛ Later, I plan to read the explanation for this task on a page online.
WebCounter
The visitor counter is working. But I have very few visits. The homepage gathered 8 visits over the month. Other pages received five, four, and three visits. Visits that I make myself are also counted. So, “real” visits are even fewer. In the future, I plan to create a UI for viewing the visitor table, but that won’t be happening soon. Currently, visits can only be viewed via Adminer, as shown in the blue screenshot.
Windows 11 from scratch
The biggest and most time-consuming task I did at the beginning of 2026. It felt like it took over 25 hours if you include installing all the programs I need. I decided to install a clean version of Windows to clear my computer memory and my own mind. Over the last five years, a lot of junk had accumulated on the computer, which I wanted to delete all at once. I created a clean Windows 11 image using an autoattend xml configurator. I removed many bloatware components:
- Copilot AI, Recall, Bing
- Windows Defender, SmartScreen, Automatic system updates
- Edge, Paint, Modern Notepad, XBox, OneDrive, and all standard programs
- Online account
- Telemetry
I had to struggle a bit with the autoattend configurator because I’d never used it before. Among standard programs, I only kept Terminal, Clock, and Calculator. Now I have a maximally clean Windows 11 version 25H2, which contains only the fresh programs I need 🧐 However, the work of organizing my files will continue. Later, I plan to sort numerous files stored in my cloud: photos, documents, archives. I’m afraid to imagine how much time this will take. Because I’ve been collecting these files almost my whole life, starting from 2005. And I have basically never sorted them 🤣😭♻️ Old stuff needs to be deleted, and the necessary stuff organized into folders 📂📂📂
Goals for January:
- Reach at least problem number 200 on LeetCode
- Write a new feature for my personal website: 🔎 Text search across all posts
- Sort out all my cloud files and their backups
