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I started my professional career with PHP in the year 2000. Professional in the sense that I got paid to program, not so much because of my knowledge of PHP.
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Advent of Rust // Day 11
I love that each Advent of Code reminds me at one point that I never paid much attention in math class. Part one of day 11 was, as usual, straightforward. With the divider gone and the number of rounds up to 10.000 in part two, I knew I was fucked. continue readingAdvent of Rust // Day 9
I finally had some time to review day 9. For some reason, I didn’t get the logic behind the knot movement in part two. So I had to break it down into tiny steps to get to my “duh” moment. continue readingAdvent of Rust // Day 10
After taking a day off, I’m a little behind. For some reason, I can’t wrap my head around part two of day 9, but fortunately, day 10 was easy again. continue readingAdvent of Rust // Day 8
I’ll just leave it here without further comment. continue readingAdvent of Rust // Day 7
I spent this morning trying to build a super generic directory tree structure using dynamic types and ended up being frustrated because I don’t get how ownership, lifetime, and all that jazz works in Rust. continue readingAdvent of Rust // Day 6
Easy one. I still haven’t figured out why Rust sometimes can not infer types, like with the hash set below. continue readingAdvent of Rust // Day 5
Today’s puzzle was another one where the solutions for the two parts differed only in a minuscule detail. continue readingAdvent of Rust // Day 4
The plural of regex is regrets, some people say, but I like ‘em. Not for everything and all the time but they come in handy for some tasks. continue readingAdvent of Rust // Day 3
I was surprised there’s no built-in way to find the intersection of multiple sets. I started to implement a function for this, but quickly discarded it in favor of a more specific one for the task at hand. After all, there’s exactly one character to find for each bunch of strings. continue reading