This was my tenth(!) year building 25 days of puzzles for #AdventOfCode. You can solve them all for free! Most people write code to solve them, but you can solve them however you like. I hope they help people become better programmers. 🌟 The first puzzle comes out in two hours: adventofcode.com - ThreadSky

was.tl • 158 days ago

This was my tenth(!) year building 25 days of puzzles for #AdventOfCode. You can solve them all for free! Most people write code to solve them, but you can solve them however you like. I hope they help people become better programmers. 🌟

The first puzzle comes out in two hours: https://adventofcode.com/

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handle.invalid•158 days ago

This is my sixth year of participating. Thank you for all the effort you and your beta team put into these puzzles every year. Even when I complain that they get hard, I still enjoy and appreciate them!

0xbliv.bsky.social•155 days ago

I love Advent Of Code! Every year I have time to solve them, I do :) They are really great. Please keep them coming. With Google Code Jam being discontinued (like any other good Google thing), Advent Of Code has become my main yearly programming challenge :D

waltteri.net•157 days ago

advent of code is such a delight every year 🧡 thank you so much for creating it!

rainbowtadhger.bsky.social•157 days ago

Thanks a mil! I used these when transitioning between languages for work, super helpful.

jgull.bsky.social•157 days ago

I always enjoy these. Thanks for #10. Cracking my knuckles. I'm ready!

attila-the-hun.bsky.social•157 days ago

trying to learn some Rust while I complete the puzzles! Onto Day 2 in a bit

noisyfrequency.bsky.social•158 days ago

Thanks for all the fun and learning over the years ❤️

mleone.dev•158 days ago

Thank you for another year of AoC fun, Eric!

yaybrianna.bsky.social•155 days ago

Thank you for dedicating so much of yourself to this project every year! It’s something I really look forward to and appreciate seeing year after year 🙏

akmeadowcroft.bsky.social•158 days ago

Sitting here, 4:50am, coffee in hand, twitching, waiting for #AdventOfCode to drop. Totally normal behaviour. Thanks for another year of this madness!

galaxyinferno.bsky.social•158 days ago

Thank you so much! The work is immensely appreciated and my non-holiday spirit is ... feeling a little bit festive? Can't wait to see how the elves have gotten in trouble this time 👀🎄

bugdeveloper.bsky.social•157 days ago

Thanks for this.

fellat.bsky.social•158 days ago

Hi, do you plan own forum for AoC?

I deleted my reddit acc when reddit deleted my comment about chinese phones - it seems like chinese censorship has power over reddit.

Thanks

skyfall.dev•158 days ago

Thanks! Any chance a separate endpoint could be added to get the example input? This would allow tools like cargo-aoc (https://github.com/gobanos/cargo-aoc) to download the example input automatically so that people can check their code before submitting :)

rolfje.com•158 days ago

Thanks for all the puzzle fun Eric! Congratulations on your anniversary.

duckmcscrooge.bsky.social•157 days ago

Just did day one. Was good fun.
C# in linqpad was my language and convenient tool of choice

caffeinatedpython.bsky.social•157 days ago

Thank you for all you do. I teach high school and I get my students into it! They absolutely love it and grow tremendously as coders in December, thanks to you!

pepijndelangen.bsky.social•158 days ago

Thanks again @was.tl! Woke up a bit late today (CET) but I'll try to be faster from tomorrow onwards. I see @ebowman.bsky.social managed to get out of bed in time....

ebowman.bsky.social•158 days ago

To add insult to injury I’m in the UK this weekend celebrating Thanksgiving, so it was a 5am wake up

revjameshandley.eutony.net•156 days ago

Thank you for #AdventOfCode - we have an unofficial leaderboard for the software group at work! :)

hexy.nl•156 days ago

Thank you so much. AoC is me and my partners christmas highlight!

andyamaya.com•156 days ago

Thank you!

nrp.zone•155 days ago

Thank you, Eric. This is going to be the year where I solve (or at least try) every puzzle 🙌 Happy to be a supporter.

wodar.bsky.social•158 days ago

It is fun to use my math degree in a real way once a year.

rmd1023.bsky.social•158 days ago

Thank you for this!

zippygoose.social•155 days ago

Thank you for year after year of awesome fun puzzles.

synapse42.bsky.social•157 days ago

thank you for making that effort!

starefossen.bsky.social•158 days ago

Such respect for your work, Eric 🙌🏼

huib.bsky.social•157 days ago

Thanks for the fun (and occasional frustration 😅)!

ocstl.bsky.social•157 days ago

Thank you for putting in all that work every year! I'm still amazed at the stories you come up each and every time as well.

dcbriccetti.bsky.social•158 days ago

I may try these using the Swift language this year.

thefake.me•157 days ago

According to the PM we should not spend the daily standup discussing things that we not on the board so we made AoC an epic. The PM was not impressed.

olivi-eh.dev•156 days ago

Anything can be an epic if you arbitrarily decide it is 😜

(Don't tell my manager I said that)

thefake.me•155 days ago

Don't tell you manager you said what? *wink* *wink*

ger.tz•157 days ago

Thank you for all your effort over the past ten years, @was.tl!

Great handle, btw.

arech.bsky.social•157 days ago

First year for me. Thanks!

chris-nash.bsky.social•154 days ago

So I wasn't cheating when I asked copilot for help?

spatacoli.com•158 days ago

Just told my wife that Advent of Code comes out in 1 hour and she said, "OH NO! I don't want a moody husband for the next 25 days..."

ataustin.bsky.social•158 days ago

it me

x3ny.bsky.social•158 days ago

Thank you for AoC! It makes me remember why I love programming ❤️

michaelthiessen.bsky.social•157 days ago

I helped with Advent of Vue one year, and it was a lot of work just for a few puzzles!

Thanks for doing this, I’ve loved these for years.

ianamo.bsky.social•157 days ago

It pwns me every year, but I always learn! Thanks for doing it!

lizthegrey.com•157 days ago

hey @was.tl and @aneurysm9.com: for some reason it looks like the sponsor tags are case-sensitive & depend upon the org name exact matching sponsor name; we are stylised as @honeycomb.io all lowercase when the domain is included, and Honeycomb capitalised when it's the product so things got screwy.

lizthegrey.com•157 days ago

no rush during puzzle unlock & watching people solve it time, obviously, just wondering if there might be some kind of fix to ensure we consistently show as "honeycomb.io" throughout the various years, and that our org members show consistently as sponsors for all years rather than inconsistent :)

was.tl•157 days ago

Which word in which place needs which capitalization changed to what? (or email the sponsorship email address with your change and we'll get to it tomorrow)

mcoblenz.bsky.social•157 days ago

Programming puzzles are great but I hope the organizers will also make non-religiously-affiliated puzzles in the future.

superroy.bsky.social•157 days ago

It’s a one man initiative, and I believe he has too much to do already, so don’t expect it.

mcoblenz.bsky.social•155 days ago

Aha, I didn’t realize it was so small!

christopheml.fr•157 days ago

Thanks a ton for making this a moment we look forward to each year.

boogers.io•158 days ago

Thank you for all your hard work on this! It's a delight every year! Last year I got all 50 stars! Post some pictures of all the sushi you buy with your AoC++ contributions!

palikin.bsky.social•157 days ago

I was looking forward to this event since last year 🥹

mattbidewell.bsky.social•157 days ago

Literally one of my highlights of December!

larkenciel.bsky.social•157 days ago

Love it but why does it have to come out at the time of day my brain is the most stupid? Give me 6am over 10pm any day! LOL

Thanks for building it!

octopusinvitro.bsky.social•157 days ago

In the US would be around 5am 😜

larkenciel.bsky.social•157 days ago

10pm Mountain time is the current time it comes available, I think? Unless I messed up the math.

Which tracks for me, I loathe time zones.

octopusinvitro.bsky.social•156 days ago

You are right, my bad!

larkenciel.bsky.social•157 days ago

Mountain time in the USA I meant.

sagdas.net•157 days ago

They drop at 6am in most parts of Europe (and parts of western Africa).

larkenciel.bsky.social•157 days ago

One more reason I wish I lived in Europe!

marcomorain.com•158 days ago

Thank you for building this every year Eric

edison.dev•157 days ago

Truly thank you for putting so much time and effort into something most people in tech take for granted at this point. A pillar of the community

pblackwood.bsky.social•153 days ago

Thank you Eric! This is my first year solving AoC and I am loving it. Not quite obsessed ... but my wife has been a little worried about me. 😀

tomnomnom.com•157 days ago

Thank you for all the time you put into this :)

ornithopter1.bsky.social•157 days ago

I just finished the puzzles for Day 1, trying them in Rust was not my smartest move. But it was definitely fun.

danecarstens.net•157 days ago

I'd never heard of this but it was a fun puzzle to start my morning!
Looking forward to tomorrow :)

danecarstens.net•154 days ago

Day 4 complete 💪💪💪

mdavidmorton.bsky.social•157 days ago

Trying this in a new language (Go) cause I’m a glutton for punishment. Day 1 complete

sleepyinsa2.bsky.social•158 days ago

Thanks for doing this again! Using Alteryx in the main. Nice start!

flipymod.bsky.social•157 days ago

the only thing I don't like is how It starts (in my country) at 6 am XD. so I am always 3 hours late to writing and solving it XXDDDD

bottlaeric.bsky.social•158 days ago

Simple message just to say thank you for these puzzles, I find them both great and progressively infuriating as the days pass and difficulty grows :-)

krizz.org•154 days ago

dude, whether you read this or not: thank's a lot for all your effort. you created a way for all nerds/coders/hacky people to join solve and think about things from all over the world. thank you, so much!

dilovancelik.bsky.social•155 days ago

Thank you for this, I’ll recommend this to anyone who wants to learn a new language, or tool. It’s helping me become better at rust!

phantastically.bsky.social•158 days ago

Thank you so much for all of your hard work. My wife and I have worked through these (well, between 12 and 20 of these 😬😆) each year and she’s been learning to code. We really do look forward to December 1
each year so we can experience these puzzles again.

ataustin.bsky.social•158 days ago

You've brought me countless hours of joy (and occasional facepalming)! Thanks for the incredible dedication

mitchelnijdam.bsky.social•157 days ago

I just watched a talk of you about AoC. You are so humble about it, and I admire that! Keep doing great things for the future of tech.

shinyblackshoe.bsky.social•158 days ago

Goes to website
Has palpitations at the style choice
Can't find the actual puzzle on phone
☹️

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