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Weekly Coding • 2026-01-13

Good day everyone. It's time for my weekly diary.

  • LeetCode 💻 6 hours 55 minutes
    • Completed five problems
  • Personal Website 🌐 1 hour 13 minutes
    • Made some progress with Search Indexing and checked my visitor counter.

LeetCode

I solved five problems, reaching task number 188 ... This one was a killer 🥴 Complexity: Hard. I spent three hours trying to write the code for it, but I couldn't optimize it to meet the required speed: my program passed 207 out of 211 online tests. However, I failed to pass the 208th test: Time Limit Exceeded ⌛ Later, I decided to read the explanation for this task on this online page .

WebCounter

The visitor counter is working, but I have few visitors. The homepage received 8 visits last month. Some other pages got 5, 4, or 3 visits. Even my own visits are being counted. So, "real" visits are even fewer. In the future, I plan to create a UI for viewing the visit table, but that's not happening soon. Currently, you can only view visits through Adminer, as shown in the blue screenshot.

Windows 11 Fresh Install

The most significant and time-consuming task I've done since early 2026. It felt like 25+ hours, including setting up all the software I needed. I decided to nuke and reinstall Windows to clear my computer's memory and my mind. Over the past five years, a lot of bloatware accumulated on my machine that I wanted to delete everything at once. I created a clean Windows 11 image using the autoattend xml configurator . I removed many junk components:

  • Copilot AI, Recall, Bing
  • Windows Defender, SmartScreen, Automatic Updates
  • Edge, Paint, Modern Notepad, XBox, OneDrive, and all standard apps
  • Online account
  • Telemetry

Using the autoattend configurator was a bit of a hassle because I'd never used it before. I only kept Terminal, Clock, and Calculator as standard apps. Now, I have the cleanest Windows 11 version 25H2 with only the essential programs 🧐 However, organizing my files will take time. Later, I plan to sort through my numerous cloud-stored files: photos, documents, archives. I'm afraid of how long it might take. After all, I've been collecting these files since 2005 and have never sorted them before 🤣😭♻️ Old stuff needs to go, while useful files should be categorized.

Goals for January:

  1. Reach task number 200 on LeetCode at a minimum
  2. Develop a new mini-feature for my personal website: 🔎 Text search across all blog posts
  3. Sort through all my cloud files and backups