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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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