Advent of Code 2024 – Day 06 – Guard Gallivant
Its happening already. The slow crushing creep of lazyness. I have not done part 2, yet, and I will, maybe get to it. I have ideas for how to solve part 2, its just... Kind of tedious and I want a respite. Part 1 was fun though. Basically just, a simple pathfinding robot to trace the path of a guard through a maze of obstacles.
https://bloggingintensifies.com/advent-of-code-2024-day-06-guard-gallivant/
Advent of Code 2024 – Day 05 – Print Queue
Well, it's an easy and hard-ish day. I kind of hate the part 2s on these because they are almost always annoying. It was a bit more interesting on the input because it was a two part input. I'm still getting weird empty spaces at the end too, which I have just been trimming with a .pop(), but that's a bit sloppy.
https://bloggingintensifies.com/advent-of-code-2024-day-05-print-queue/
Spotify Wrapped 2024
I usually do a more detailed music post just after the new year based on my Last.fm, which is more reliable, but today is Spotify Wrapped Day, so I figured I'd share them here, for posterity. Not much surprising here, other than somehow I have two Lauren Mayberry tracks at my top two tracks, and she isn't in my Top 5 artists list.
Advent of Code 2024 – Part 04 – Ceres Search
Weee, the first real "pain in the ass" day and it's only day 4! Ok, it wasn't awful, I had the right idea, for the most part. I wanted to do something better for Part 2, but it wasn't working out, but I'll get there. For this puzzle, you get a blog of text with the letters of XMAS in them, randomly, scattered.
https://bloggingintensifies.com/advent-of-code-2024-part-04-ceres-search/
Here is the regular card. I kind of hate how artist is not listed next to the songs. Top two are Lauren Mayberry, the bottom 3 are Aurora.
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