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F1 is officially over in 2030 😭 With a return to V8s, it might as well be called a vintage racing series then... NASCAR is going to look innovative in comparison... *sigh*

I've completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode Last year, I tried to go hard on modern C++ and ranges/views. This year, Rust! This is a learning exercise for me, so I'm guessing my code is far from idiomatic.... !!! Spoilers !!! github.com/int2str/adve...

After 30+ years of daily driving manual transmission cars, we're now an all-electric family. End of an era for sure. Bitter sweet....

@forrestvalkai.bsky.social Re: Center for Inquiry talk Amen!?11!!1!!!

During #AdventOfCode 2024, I dove deeper into #C++ ranges and views. Here's some of what I learned: How to make custom C++ views: whtwnd.com/int2str.net/...

"In all fairness, people only said that because it's true." - @forrestvalkai.bsky.social , 2025 lol :)

Make your #AdventOfCode problem twice as fast with this one weird trick ... I was absolutely sure the compiler (clang-18) would do this for me, but alas, it didn't.... Went from ~40ms to ~20ms. Hat tip to @49pctber.bsky.social I peeked at their code and was like "nah, THAT can't be it..."

Finally figured out how to make my "Utils::views::nm" play nicely with C++23 ranges/views. This makes the final #AdventOfCode problem super nice in C++! I need to do a proper write-up on both the AoC problem, as well as the difficulties of making a C++23 custom view....

@daveeddy.com tiny tip of the day based on your (awesome) day 16 video: wc -l -> Get number of lines in a file (you did that) wc -L -> Gets longest line in the file ;) So, grid size for day 16 -> wc -lL #AdventOfCode

The slowest way to the fastest*** Advent Of Code solution whtwnd.com/int2str.net/... Here's my write up of my #AdventOfCode "solution" for Day 17.

121 commits 9598 lines of C++ 64 unit tests 3 SFML animations 1 x86_64 JIT compiler 25 awesome puzzles (well except you, day 21...) 50 stars :) Thank you, #AdventOfCode! I tried a whole bunch of new/different things and had a blast learning all December! Public repo: github.com/int2str/adve...

I've completed "Code Chronicle" - Day 25 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode Man, if I could just turn my mn_const_view() into an actual view, this would actually have been a "one liner" in C++ :) Thank you, AoC team and participants! Merry x-mas and happy holidays!!!!!!

"Crossed Wires" - Day 24 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode Ohhhhh nooooo AoC - I'm almost done writing a completely unnecessary, overkill JIT compiler for Day 17.... Don't make me write another one!!! :p

I've completed "RAM Run" - Day 18 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode 18 days completed and all 37 test cases (full input data + samples) still run in a total of less than 300ms on my machine - nice! github.com/int2str/adve...

I've completed "Chronospatial Computer" - Day 17 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode Mega fun today writing a cute little "virtual machine" :) Thought about implementing a JIT :D And a fun little "Quine detector" for part 2. Great puzzle today! I needed that after 16.. github.com/int2str/adve...

I've completed Part One of "Reindeer Maze" - Day 16 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode This one kicked my butt a bit, not gonna lie. Spent some quality time on Wikipedia... But hey, at least I have a generic implementation of Dijkstra's algorithm in C++ now :) github.com/int2str/adve...

Went back and optimized "Day 7 - Bridge Repair" by writing my own concatenate operator. It's not that I am smarter than std::format, it's just that I have a much smaller problem space :D All 13 days so far now execute in ~200ms, running sample AND final input calculations. #AdventOfCode

I've completed "Claw Contraption" - Day 13 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode (No math spoilers) How dare they make me do math during the holidays - my brain hurts :p With my ever growing "Coordinate" class and more std::ranges, the code is nice and compact though. github.com/int2str/adve...

I've completed "Garden Groups" - Day 12 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode Day 12 in the bag finally.... A bit late, but did a bunch of infrastructure work to make this less of a pain. github.com/int2str/adve... I heard #13 is math problem, so I might be screwed ...

I've completed "Hoof It" - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode Yes, there's a bunch of glue code to make this work, but with the glue in place, solving problems like today's is a ton of fun! Much happier with today's solution! github.com/int2str/adve...

I've completed "Disk Fragmenter" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode Don't like my solution today, but hey, it works.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ github.com/int2str/adve...

I've completed Part One of "Guard Gallivant" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/6 We're going graphical for this one :D I might regret this for Part Two....

I've completed "Print Queue" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/5 Ranges coming in clutch again... Though I don't like the multiple N*M loops. Not sure how to do those with ranges yet. If anyone knows, let me know plz github.com/int2str/adve...

Eggnog latte is a yes 😎 It's basically winter outside... ❄️ #coffee #espresso