The AOC 2024 Retro - Finally!!!

2025-04-09 Software-Craftmanship Augmented-by-AI Advent-of-Code Functional-Programming Nerdy Scala

I am calling it! I declare my Advent of Code (AOC) for 2024 done! Finally!

Clarification: This does not mean that I did all of it, but I did what I ...

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About AOC, VSCode, Scala, Mill and NO_COLOR

2024-12-22 Software-Craftmanship Augmented-by-AI Advent-of-Code Nerdy Scala Tips & Tricks

It is this time of the year again: We are all doing the Advent of Code (AOC), right?

For me the AOC has never been about speed and solving the ...

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Some more fun with Scala3

2021-05-15 Software-Craftmanship Advent-of-Code Functional-Programming Nerdy Scala

Scala3 is here.

In my earlier post I saw some weird performance differences between Scala2 and Scala3 (RC3) and felt (obviously) compelled to run the ...

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More fun with Scala3

2021-05-01 Software-Craftmanship Advent-of-Code Functional-Programming Nerdy Scala

Note: Look here for 3.0 benchmark numbers

The release of Scala3 is imminent.

In April I ported/migrated nmesos from Scala2 to Scala3 and I just did a ...

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Haskell + Beam = Hamler (III)

2021-02-01 Software-Engineering Advent-of-Code Functional-Programming Haskell Nerdy Elixir

Here comes part III of the Hamler blog post series

One of the observations was that for/on Day21 hamler ~6000 times slower than haskell, ...

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Haskell + Beam = Hamler (II)

2021-01-18 Software-Engineering Advent-of-Code Functional-Programming Haskell Nerdy Elixir

Here comes part II of the Hamler blog post series

For this year’s Advent-of-Code I wanted to take a look at Hamler.

I just finished ...

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Haskell + Beam = Hamler (I)

2020-12-15 Software-Engineering Advent-of-Code Functional-Programming Haskell Nerdy Community Elixir

Hamler Blog Post Series …

  • Hamler (I) - First week (this post)
  • Hamler (II) - All solutions for part 1 (in Hamler and Haskell)
  • Hamler (III) - ...
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Advent of Code ... Final cut (... and First cut :))

2018-11-30 Software-Engineering Haskell Eta Scala Kotlin Advent-of-Code

Today Advent of Code 2018 started again (at 05:00am (GMT))!!!

And …

… just in time …

… today I am also wrapping up Advent ...

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Advent of Code 2017 ... Revolutions!!!

2018-08-11 Software-Engineering Functional-Programming Advent-of-Code Scala Kotlin

Let’s talk about the Advent of Code … again!!!

Last time we talked about a/the Scala implementation.

This time around I figured that I ...

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Advent of Code 2017 ... Reloaded!!!

2018-05-24 Software-Engineering Advent-of-Code Scala Functional-Programming

OK … it took me a while, but … hopefully it was worth it!!!

Matrix Reloaded

Last year at christmas I did the Advent of Code and … really liked ...

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