AOC 2025 - Dark Factories for the win
2026-10-17 Software-Craftsmanship Augmented-by-AI Advent-of-Code Functional-Programming Nerdy Scala Thoughts
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The AOC 2024 Retro - Finally!!!
2025-04-09 Software-Craftsmanship 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-Craftsmanship 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-Craftsmanship Advent-of-Code Functional-Programming Nerdy Scala
Scala3 is officially released.
In my earlier post I saw some weird performance differences between Scala2 and Scala3 (RC3) and felt (obviously) ...
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More fun with Scala3
2021-05-01 Software-Craftsmanship Advent-of-Code Functional-Programming Nerdy Scala
Note: Check out the 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 …
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- Hamler (I) - First week (this post)
- Hamler (II) - All solutions for part 1 (in Hamler and Haskell)
- Hamler (III) - ...
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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