Advent of Code Day 25 -- Full of Hot Air

That’s a wrap – a Christmas wrap! – on Advent of Code 2022!

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 373 words · Tipa

Advent of Code Day 24 -- Blizzard Basin

The Christmas elves don’t like the snow for some reason? They have the wrong boss, I think. Well, we better help them get through those couple hundred blizzards.

December 24, 2022 · 3 min · 509 words · Tipa

Advent of Code Day 23 -- Unstable Diffusion

…because Stable Diffusion was already used, I guess. This is the annual cellular automata puzzle. Plus, why no puzzle 22?

December 23, 2022 · 3 min · 626 words · Tipa

Advent of Code Day 20 -- Grove Positioning System

As someone remarked today on Reddit, the entire plan hinged upon you remembering a ten digit prime number you randomly overheard twenty days ago.

December 20, 2022 · 2 min · 372 words · Tipa

Advent of Code Day 9 -- Rope Bridge

The elves are crossing a bridge, but it is a really short bridge – in fact it is the shortest bridge possible. So what did the protagonist fall into when it snapped?

December 9, 2022 · 3 min · 487 words · Tipa

Advent of Code 2022: Day 1 -- Calorie Counting

I am committing myself this year to solving every puzzle in the Advent of Code, an annual coding competition taking place over the Advent season each year. Each day brings a new puzzle, in two parts. They start out pretty easy, and top programmers (not me) solve them in seconds. By the end of the challenge, top programmers can take even half an hour to solve a puzzle. Me, I’ll take hours. ...

December 1, 2022 · 4 min · 737 words · Tipa