Reviving CVS for my #Retrocomputing needs for next #AdventOfCode:

https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-05-21/0/POSTING-en.html

Curious to see how well this will work.

started a repo for late #adventofcode in Uiua. Probably not getting far, but really enjoying playing with the language, and it actually likes its 2024d1 solution, but it could likely be much better codeberg.org/soweliniko/uiua-aoc/src/branch/main/2024/01.ua

At last night’s @mug meeting we looked at a lot of different solutions to #adventofcode day 1 in many different languages. Two that were very interesting to me were #Zig and #haskell. The way these two languages worked was really quite fascinating. After seeing real code in these two languages, I can tell they are not for me; but they were interesting and illuminating nonetheless.

There was a solution entirely in #SQL. Another in #vim9script. Another in #swiftlang #swift (I don’t think that one’s in the repo yet). I wrote several implementations myself. The one I felt most proud of is #Python with the core written in #rustlang #rust tied together with #PyO3. The one I felt was maybe the best tool for the job was entirely based on #pandas. As I said in a previous post, I tried to solve it in #polars, but the API exposed by Polars at least as far as I could tell, made it no better than simple lists in Python. I need to get deeper knowledge here.

The repo lives here: https://github.com/MichiganUnixUserGroup/MUG-2025-03-11-Advent-of-Code.

I want to go for an easy language for the next #AdventOfCode. The obvious choice being Python. And I really liked using my old PC in 2024, soooo I’m thinking about doing that again to get a proper #RetroComputing theme.

And I would also love to have a UNIX shell this time.

So, how about going for SuSE Linux 6.4 and Python 1.5?

(Yes, I’m planning ahead. )

I put off writing this for two months, and I am not happy with how it came out but I am trying to blog more regularly so here's an article on how to write a defmemo macro in #elixir which I did during the 2024 #adventofcode

https://riffraff.info/2025/02/a-memoize-macro-in-elixir/

If you're not subsribed to my #RSS, you might have missed that I published #adventofcode 2024 day 15 in #python!

https://advent-of-code.xavd.id/writeups/2024/day/15/

I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2024! #AdventOfCode #python https://adventofcode.com/

I returned to Day 21 Part 2 last week, finally got the 'shape' of the problem but failed to solve it again. Yesterday I restarted from my Part 1 solution and after some toe-stubbing it finally works! (silly mistakes are more obvious the next day)

AOC has been great for levelling up my Python skills and reminding me this is fun...sometimes.

Thank you @ericwastl !

src:
https://github.com/adw99/advent-of-code-2024

New instance, new introduction!
I'm a late (mostly self) diagnosed autistic in recovery from autistic burnout. In spring 2024 I left a career at Apple Retail and have been finding myself since. I'm deeply passionate about and experienced with Apple tech. I also love Sci-Fi and Fantasy, mostly TV and movies these days. I'm a gamer, mostly playing on Mac, iPad, and Switch. I was once a software engineer and still pursue it as a hobby, mostly developing small projects for the Apple ecosystem in Swift.

I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2024! #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/

New Hacking the Grepson podcast episode is out!

Hacking the Grepson 086: Advent of Code 2024, Day 20-25

Matt (@messerman) and Mike (@nebyoolae) (and Richard @zurmikopa) discuss the final days of Advent of Code 2025.

Episode Link: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-ut42d-17e0b72
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Show Home: https://hackingthegrepson.com

A late blog post detailing how I improved some truly awful Elixir code I wrote for Advent of Code last year/

https://simoncrowe.hashnode.dev/advent-of-code-2024-with-elixir-part-2-the-better

SaturdayMP Show 63: Advent of Code 2024 Day 12 (Part 3 - Solved!)

https://youtu.be/jOh7NLj7BxI

In this episode I finish the Advent of Code 2024 Day 12 problem! I also figured out how to do parameterized tests in Python. Any constructive feedback on my solution? How would you have solved it differently?

Part 2: https://youtu.be/p9bSVRxkGlk

Advent of Code 2024: https://adventofcode.com/2024

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Advent of Code Day 11 had a clever misdirection! I even used my FSM library, Genstates, to model the transformations. Blog post explains all! Open to Python dev roles. https://kitfucoda.medium.com/finally-an-application-for-my-fsm-library-advent-of-code-2024-day-11-714b6f0faf86 #AdventOfCode #Python #Genstates #FSM #fedihire #opentowork

SaturdayMP Show 62: Advent of Code 2024 Day 12 (Part 2 - Area Calculated)

https://youtu.be/p9bSVRxkGlk

In this episode I actually make some progress on the Advent of Code Day 12 problem and can calculate the area of a plot starting at a given point. Any feedback on my solution so far? Any Python tips for me?

Part 1: https://youtu.be/RhSQ49SVAtY

Advent of Code 2024: https://adventofcode.com/2024

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I didn’t manage to wrap up #AdventOfCode #AOC2024 before Christmas, so I’m filling in the gaps. With style. #clojure

Lots of #rustlang over the weekend. Lots of stuff to say. I’m writing small programs (mostly #adventofcode) with lots of looking stuff up. Looking stuff up shows me just how much _more_ Rust there is to know. Rust chained iterator expressions can do everything a #Python list #comprehension can do. I use #pandas all the time. #polars is data compatible and you can call it from Rust. This could help me in my job. The way you implement methods in Rust is _so_ much like type-bound procedures in #oberon2. I have more and more respect for Rust. I still love Python.

Solved Advent of Code 2024 Day 10 using Depth-First Search (DFS) in Python. The puzzle involved navigating a heightmap and finding all paths from trailheads to peaks. A good exercise in graph traversal! #AdventOfCode #Python #DFS #GraphTraversal #OpenToWork #FediHire #getfedihired

https://kitfucoda.medium.com/climbing-a-depth-first-search-hill-advent-of-code-2024-day-10-2c1490ffbf04