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Matt Bryant
Personal blog · programsareproofs.com/articles · on HN as teh_mattprogrammingmath
Matt Bryant's personal blog at programsareproofs.com covers programming and math. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Solving Advent of Code 2021 with Rust before Python can start”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Posts on TOTP two-factor authentication, including a guide to adding Steam Guard codes to an authenticator app using Python and the Steam API. One commenter cites it as the method they used.
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About Matt Bryant
Most-linked posts?
- Solving Advent of Code 2021 with Rust before Python can start2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-11
What Hacker News says?
You can have your Steam guard in your 2FA app as long as it has support for it. I'm personally using Aegis and have managed to put the Steam TOTP there. [1] There are other ways to do it that don't require using Python and the Steam API by using Steam's desktop application, but since this is HN I find this the most interesting. [1]: https://programsareproofs.com/articles/steam_2fa.html
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on “TOTP for 2FA is incredibly easy to implement. So what's your excuse?”Submitted Solving Advent of Code 2021 with Rust before Python can start as a story · 8 points
HN discussionWorking at a company that cared deeply about correctness and reading code over writing it was critical to my current coding style and beliefs. I've written about some of this at https://programsareproofs.com/articles/singleuse_functions.h... , but I developed an aversion to single-use functions, premature abstractions, and "self documenting" code. The code I write these days is drastically more understandable and mo…
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on “Which programming paradigm had the most impact on you as an engineer and why?”Submitted Quickly optimizing Python code with FunctionTrace as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI have a writeup of my 2021 solutions at https://programsareproofs.com/articles/aoc_2021.html . I got day 23 down to 31ms using Rust.
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on “Adventures in Advent of Code”Submitted Solving a Puzzlehunt with Satisfiability Modulo Theories as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code Reviews for Fun and Profit as a story · 1 points
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