Day -2

Received the Codex from ICFP. Minds boggled at the complexity, a file in no known format. David Baird extracted this cryptic image:

Daniel Lyons extracted this ASCII art:

Day 1

Received the Universal Machine spec. Began implementing Ruby VM.

@ 6:00 PM MDT, a fully-compliant Ruby VM was achieved. Unfortunately we would not discover that it was bug-free until the next morning at 11…

Day 2

Learnt of the Ruby VM's horrifying inefficiencies. Began reimplementation in C, which was achieved 2 hours later. Some tweaks to the VM and we were in.

Hell is other programming languages. -- Sartran
Hell is that programming language! -- Dan

Ordinarily, one would enrich this language with more powerful means of computation. Instead I take a different tack... -- Harmonious Monk