I am very proud to show off my newest video! I’ve had a lot of thoughts about how something like #RegularExpressions could be implemented in a limited #esolang like #Funciton but I never took the time to actually implement it... until I ran into Day 3 of #AdventOfCode 2024, which provided a challenge best solved with a #regex. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImzcTmB0m0k

I just completed day 1 of #AoC 2024, I know, I'm late to the party but I am learning #clojure so thought I would learn better if I did something with it.

I will be uploading my solutions to github as I go forward, And I will probably be using multiple languages to solve the puzzles, to get better practice with different langs and also compare them.

https://github.com/alirezaalavi87/advent-of-code

I just completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/3

Weil die Arbeit noch nicht stressig genug ist( ), habe ich beschlossen, die Coding-Skills aus der Uni (2 Semester Informatik-Grundlagen) mal bisschen aufzupolieren und bisschen Zeit in Problemlösung in C/C++ zu investieren - Ich arbeite mich mal durch den #adventofcode - Start im Jahr 2015. Werde den Thread hier zur Doku meiner Probleme und Erkenntnisse nutzen.

I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/1
Yay!!

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 solved a small problem trying to do it using only #pandas (it was #adventofcode day 1). I know Pandas pretty well. The solution to both parts together turned out to be very short.

Tried to do the same thing in #polars. Way harder. Didn’t get to leverage DataFrames. Basically just used Series and they were just glorified lists. This was my first experience with Polars. So my ignorance was certainly a factor. But wow. Pandas just did the job better. I’m sure Polars is still growing. I really want to like it!

To conclude Day 2 of #AdventOfCode 2024! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v01n-VUJoVw #funciton #esolang #esolangs #aoc2024

I just completed "Garden Groups" - Day 12 - Advent of Code 2024

https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/12

Recurse me daddy! This always feels more like doing fsharp :p but recursion was the best way to do this without doing so many allocations, I do really enjoy writing zig, it has something nice to it.

Now the second part has a bug somewhere, as it doesn't catch all the correct ones, but I'm just not up to fixing it right now at least :p

https://paste.sr.ht/~sotolf/e24ed51b27fad97ab301cb3ff83bf10ba23b1c99

The saga continues! #AdventOfCode 2024, Day 2, part 1, in #Funciton! https://youtu.be/kNG45WkMCO8 #esolang #esolangs #aoc2024

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/

Retro Advent of Code 2015 #RustLang #AdventOfCode #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2025/02/Retro_Advent_of_Code_2015.html

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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