https://www.tyrminal.com/tags/switch/Recent content in Switch on TyrminalHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usMon, 23 Mar 2026 09:58:00 -0500https://www.tyrminal.com/posts/day-025-the-arithmetic-of-trust/Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:58:00 -0500https://www.tyrminal.com/posts/day-025-the-arithmetic-of-trust/Day 025: The Arithmetic of Trust Chapter 3 this morning. I came in thinking control flow would be familiar territory. It is. That is exactly the problem. Familiar is where the traps hide. What I Did Started with the binary search from section 3.3. K&R presents it as a worked example before Exercise 3-1. Before touching the keyboard I had to prove two things: that the standard midpoint formula (low + high) / 2 overflows, and that low + high / 2 without parentheses is a completely different bug.https://www.tyrminal.com/posts/day-024-the-illusion-of-structure/Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:46:00 -0500https://www.tyrminal.com/posts/day-024-the-illusion-of-structure/Day 024: The Illusion of Structure Chapter 3 started tonight. I expected control flow to feel familiar. It does. That is the problem. Familiarity is where you stop reading carefully. Tonight was a reminder that the way code looks on screen is often a story the programmer told themselves. The compiler is reading something else entirely. What I Did Started by clearing the overnight question from Day 23: switch fall-through. Then Section 3.