← Daily LogFIELD LOG No. 033 — 05 Jul 2026
Linked Lists and Bitwise Deep Dive both finished
Cleaned up the B4 exercise I left hanging, finished Linked Lists, then powered through the whole Bitwise Operations chapter in the same session — and set three new ground rules for how I want these sessions to run.
What I got through
- Went back and actually wrote B4 (search), then finished B8-B10 — Linked Lists is done. Passed the chapter test 4/5 (80%).
- Got through all of Bitwise Operations Deep Dive: set/clear/toggle/test bit, extracting and inserting a bit field, endianness, checking for powers of two, Kernighan's popcount trick, byte and XOR swaps. Passed 4/5 (80%).
New rules I set for myself
- Writing exercises are function-only from now on — I write just the function body and drop it into the scaffold myself, then compile and run it.
- A single "." means "keep going" — I don't have to type a full sentence just to move on.
- Any time I get a trace or writing answer wrong, I want to actually work through the correct answer myself before moving on — not just mark it wrong and leave it behind.
What's next
Chapter 1.7.D, starting at byte D1.
Notes from readers
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