advent-of-code VS adventofcode

My solution in Common Lisp.

Dot file generated by my code and then run through fdp from Graphviz.

Just a simple relief-shaded image like you might find on a map. Principally generated with GDAL. The particular commands used are at the bottom of my solution code for the day. I also made a more flat version, which shows the elevation colors better, but really doesn't feel right in terms of elevation.

The code is written in Common Lisp using Cairo and ffmpeg. https://gitlab.com/asciiphil/advent-of-code/-/blob/master/2022/09.lisp

So I spend more time analyzing the input calculation. I wrote up that analysis and committed it to my repository, too.

This was a bit difficult. My original part one solution worked completely differently to what I had to do for part two.

My solution in Common Lisp, 2335/2041.

No. It's just here, as part of my Advent of Code repository.

The code is at the bottom of my day 9 source file, in Common Lisp. (The AdvMAME3x code was something I originally wrote for my 2020 day 20 visualization.)

As a side note, I took inspiration from a post the other day about adding AoC badges to your repository README file. I use GitLab, which lets you define badges as properties of your repository. So I added badges to my repository's header area, driven by a JSON file in the repository. The JSON file is updated manually by a script. (I might add some automated updates at some point, but manual works okay for now.)

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 :-)