Decker VS adventofcode

Everything in web-decker is drawn to a canvas using a custom software-rendered imgui-style UI toolkit. I considered this approach essential for maintaining fidelity across platforms and implementations, but it does come with notable accessibility and performance tradeoffs.

There is a native version of Decker implemented in C using SDL2. It's fairly easy to build from source for Linux[0], and I offer periodic Windows and MacOS builds on itch.io[1].

[0] https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Decker#building

[1] https://internet-janitor.itch.io/decker

Part 1 had a massive delay since i found a parser bug, but otherwise this was smooth sailing. Lots of off by ones, and luckily the example output was very helpful with that.

Code on GitHub is currently a mess.

In the spirit of the Day 5 ALLEZ CUISINE! challenge to ELI5 (Explain Like I'm Five), here's a tasty explanation of how my algorithm works using only a large bucket of Red Vines and a knife. It says to use lined paper, but if you try this at home consider aligning things on a cutting board.

[Language: Jsonnet] (on GitHub)

Elixir code, thoughts

Elixir 1554/1502 code, reflections

Elixir 2506/3402 (24 minutes, 2 hours), code, thoughts

Bonus solution in Go (golang) because I was confused about why my Elixir solution didn't work and decided to implement from scratch in case I'd done something dumb. The Go one also got the wrong answer, but took less than 100ms instead of a minute, so I could try out lots of tweaks that didn't change the answer.

Elixir 2031/2641 after 3.25/6.5 hours! Code on GitHub

I spent time this afternoon sprucing up my helpers for the iex REPL. I spent a bunch of time poking at things in IEx the last couple days and wanted to make sure I would minimize keystrokes if I needed to debug things on my phone while drunk. Turns out Thursday night > Friday night > Saturday night in terms of difficulty, so all those macros have so far saved me zero seconds :-)