I was eagerly waiting to read “The Rose Field” by Philip Pullman after having read “The Secret Commonwealth”, which had ended on a cliff-hanger. This is the third book in the “The Book Of Dust” trilogy of books, which followed the “His Dark Materials” trilogy of books. I have been a fan of this series of fantasy fiction books, so I was a little disappointed in how this book ended this trilogy.

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I just finished taking part in ICFPC 2025 over the weekend. This was a nice contest with a deceptively simple task that turned out to be quite hard. It did not require any familiarity with Functional Programming concepts. I had a lot of fun during the contest, but did not have any breakthrough in actually solving the problems. In other words, I continue the glorious tradition from past years.

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