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https://unnecessary.tech/posts/aoc2024-final · 2 Jan 2025
As usual the holidays really started to take off and I didn't take time to work on updates. The upshot is I did finish Advent of Code 2024, but I didn't finish Day 24 until the new year. However, before we get to that, let's talk about some of the more int...
https://stau.space/posts/licker/ · 20 Dec 2024
Behold The Licker The title is a portmanteau of the words "license" and "picker". See it in action here: This is the first time I write go and I gotta say, it's the most normal language of all time. I am neither impressed nor let down by it, it feels lik...
https://build.ms/2024/12/16/the-rule-of-small-and-large/ · 16 Dec 2024
A personal framework for choosing projects: focus on either small projects for quick learning or large projects for meaningful impact, while avoiding the medium-sized trap.
https://unnecessary.tech/posts/aoc-2024-day11 · 12 Dec 2024
Advent of Code day 11 was an example of a problem which gets exponentially harder as you do more iterations. Essentially there are a series of elements and functions are performed on those elements based on their state, including creating more elements. A ...
https://stau.space/posts/archiver/ · 9 Dec 2024
Want to archive folders however you want? Context I had been trying to figure out a more efficient way of backing up directories on my computers. For example, I have a huge directory where my Obsidian vault lives. This vault is filled with a bunch of pdf...
https://unnecessary.tech/posts/aoc-2024-day6 · 6 Dec 2024
I thought Day 6 of Advent of Code was a pretty interesting problem. The first part was relatively straightforward. You are given a grid containing empty space an obstructions and the location of a guard who start facing north. The guard moved forward until...
https://unnecessary.tech/posts/aoc-2024-day4 · 4 Dec 2024
The last few days of Advent of Code have been fairly straightforward and I have not really used any new language features of Gleam. I do feel like I am better at spotting where the list.fold function is useful, but on day 4 there was a great opportunity to...
https://unnecessary.tech/posts/aoc-2024-day1 · 1 Dec 2024
It's time once again for Advent of Code. This time I am trying to use it as an opportunity to get better writing Gleam. Today's problem involved taking two lists of integers, presented in an input file with one entry from each list separated by three spac...