I presume that for people who use AI for private hobby programming projects the appeal of something like the Advent of Code is unfathomable?

2015 day 6 of Advent of Code in Ruby:

Amazing. A code golf solution in Ruby is twice as long as a solution that wasn't even intended to be golf, in the K language: https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/3vmltn/comment/cxp12nt

I feel like I'm passing by whole other universes.

One way to spend time instead of #doomscrolling has recentlt been #codewars

Bitesized problems of different difficulties for almost any language.

Not as big as #adventofcode, so I can riddle along on my mobile device as well (and be forced to code without an lsp)

https://www.codewars.com/dashboard

需要用到一點點數學，問題是不難的，今次Qwen3沒有跳步了，可以正常地用它將文字描述的邏輯寫成代碼，但是 #Rust 在這裏變得不太好用了，例如那些usize的運算需要手動關注和修一修

https://github.com/cosmoswafer/advent-of-code-2024/blob/main/src/bin/day8.rs

I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2018! #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/

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.

In just 10 minutes the #HolySaturday problem of my little #AdventOfCode inspired #programming challange site https://easters.dev/ goes live!

Good introduction from https://entropicthoughts.com/parser-combinators-beat-regexes:

> They were surprised, however, that there seems to be a lack of community cohesion around regex libraries in Haskell.
> We generally don’t use regexes in Haskell. We use parser combinators instead, because they are almost always better. In other languages, it would be considered overkill to write a full parser when a simple regex can do the same thing. In Haskell, writing a parser is no big deal.

#parser #haskell #adventofcode

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.

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

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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 "Claw Contraption" - Day 13 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/13

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