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.
I would not have guessed I would be that high for either of these for "Top Fan %"
Advent of Code 2024 – Day 03 – Mull it Over
This was so much easier than yesterday, since I wasn't splitting my focus between trying to be clever and trying to write shitty code. Day 03's problem involved digging through a block of "corrupted code" to pull out important and usable data. I ended up forcing myself to use the logical method here, and built a Regex string. Despite that I write a lot of simple scripts to process and convert data for automation, I don't…
https://bloggingintensifies.com/advent-of-code-2024-day-03-mull-it-over/
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