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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Huffman Trees/Codes - Why are they different?
2024-11-19 Software-Craftsmanship Augmented-by-AI Functional-Programming Nerdy Scala
Right now I am solving the 99-scala-problems. Again!!!
This time around I am using them to learn more about what it means to be an Augmented Software ...
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Effective Programming with Scala(3)
2021-06-02 Software-Craftsmanship Functional-Programming Scala
Just finished the brand new Effective Programming with Scala course on Coursera.
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Coursera course certificate for Effective Programming in Scala — ...
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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Scala 3 is ... gluten-free!!!
2021-02-21 Software-Craftsmanship Functional-Programming Nerdy Scala
A couple of month ago I started to have stomach cramps. First it was only once week, but then it was more or less constant.
Funny enough I had to find ...
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Code Elixir LDN 2019 - 3 languages in 3 minutes
2019-08-01 Software-Craftsmanship Conferences Community Elixir Functional-Programming Haskell Nerdy Scala
Last week I was in London attending Code Elixir LDN 2019 delivering a lightening talk on 3 languages in 3 minutes …
This was my first Elixir ...
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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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