advent-of-code-jq VS asciinema

How is this December starting for you? Have you already got into the Christmas mood? How many of you have started the new Advent of Code? Unfortunately, I am not managing to follow it this year, but I don't exclude the possibility of having a full-immersion during the holidays, who knows! 🎄

Inspired (and simplified) by the Advent of Code, you get bite-sized Docker knowledge every day! From December 1st to 24th, 2024, we'll explore everything containers - from basic concepts to advanced techniques. At the end of the 4 weeks, you will certainly have learned Docker and if you're lucky, you might even win some awesome swag!

December Adventure is an Advent of Code alternative that is meant as a productive, but low key, personal programming challenge. As explained by December Adventure progenitor Eli: “Pick a project, or projects and work on them a little bit every day in December.”

My personal challenge last year was to solve everything on my mobile phone, using LLMs (mostly ChatGPT4 with code interpreter; I didn't paste in the problems, but rather described the code I wanted.)

This year I'm declaring "Advent of Claude"! Write a Claude custom style to solve Advent of Code puzzles within Claude's UI.

Score: # adventofcode.com stars earned in 2 daily conversation turns.

Fine print: web app artifacts are allowed, including paste of your custom input into the artifact UI; one click only.

Per https://adventofcode.com/2024/about, wait until the daily http://adventofcode.com leaderboard is full before submitting LLM-generated solutions!

Of course, feel free to use ChatGPT custom instructions, static prompts, etc.

adventofcode.com is a website created by Eric Wastl where, from December 1st to December 25th, a daily programming puzzle is published. These puzzles can be solved with code, and they range from simple to complex as the days progress. If you enjoy programming, it’s an incredibly fun experience!. For a sneak peak, check out puzzles from previous years here.

It's that time of the year again! Advent of Code is my favorite coding challenge, and I enjoy talking about the problems with friends and coworkers.

The most well known is the Eric Wastl's Advent of Code it will start dropping daily challenges at midnight EST (UTC-5) on December 1. The puzzles are language agnostic. You can solve them in whatever language you want.

As a self-guided alternative, you could try going through https://adventofcode.com/ problems with your language of choice.

I'm working my way through Advent of Code's back catalog. 2018 Day 24 looks fun. Well, part 1 looks fun. I'm dreading whatever search part 2 will likely require. Anyway, AoC problems tend to be written in a style that suggests a way to implement. For example:

Advent of Code taught me a lot. It is a light programming contest that takes place every December and consists of a series of small programming puzzles that can be solved in any programming language. I find it an excellent way to keep my coding skills sharp.

I usually write the README and documentation before writing the code. I then shop it around and ask people if it makes sense.

The initial version of the code is stubs that, if you follow the code examples given in the documentation, return hard-coded values.

I went to the extreme of giving the docs to non-developers who've never written a single line of code in their entire life, giving them an interpreter, and asking them to follow the docs without providing any help. If they could do it, developers wouldn't have a problem.

One must resist the temptation to help and should only observe how the users "misuse" the code. When they make a mistake, it's usually a good indicator of bad design, which is promptly corrected.

There's also a good tool called asciinema[1] that helps you record terminal sessions.

- [1]: https://asciinema.org

cool site, have you considered using asciicinema instead of screenshots? Seems like the perfect tool for what you're trying to do

https://asciinema.org/

I agree. Capturing the interaction as a movie (like .mov file) makes it really difficult to understand what the user is doing. e.g. What keystrokes did the user press to finish this interaction. I wish folks would post screen grabs with tools like https://asciinema.org/ - this is what the helix-editor homepage uses to show the features. This is ideal for terminal apps.

That said, I wish asciinema can also show the key strokes a an annotation with the ability for the viewer to pause on each keyboard interaction.

How to generate an image from a bash script: A tool called Asciiema allows developers to test their bash script in action while also recording the execution from their terminal. This is helpful because it validates that your script works. There were times when I assumed my documentation was accurate, however, when I tried the instructions using the tool, it failed. Thankfully, I got it fixed.

I have used asciinema(https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema) for terminal recordings. Recently, I've been using Savvy(https://github.com/getsavvyinc/savvy-cli) for recording my terminal activity and saving it as executable runbooks, which has been helpful, since I can edit it. Though the output format for both are useful for different things. Asciinema is more useful for demonstrations whereas Savvy is more useful for documentation/reuse.

What are some other terminal recording tools out there? Do they allow editing the recordings ?

Savvy CLI and Asciinema are both powerful tools that can record terminal activity, but they serve different purposes and are built with different core functionalities.