Axel

First time ever making a three layered cake.. Maybe not ready to move from software engineering to a baker yet, but turned out pretty OK!

So close to giving up multiple times.. Finally got it working and running in just about ~1.5ms!

Okay, time to look at day 21, this time with some support. I refuse to give up!

Okay, that's it. Day 21 ended my run of #adventofcode this year. I just can't figure this one out..

Oh and as long as you have a text file in a public GitHub repo that looks like this:

github.com/ikornaselur/...

You can get the svg version of it on:

aoc-stars.fly.dev/stars/ikorna...

or basically /stars/<user>/<repo>/<branch>/<path>.svg (which will search for a .txt file to convert to .svg)

It was actually quite interesting to play around with fetching text files on the fly and generate svg files. Learned loads from it so far. This was also the first time really leaning into using Claude to support development, which let me wrap the project up much faster!

While waiting for the next day of #AdventOfCode I've been playing around with displaying star status in a GitHub readme.. so I created a service that converts a text file to an SVG with status.

You can see it in action on github.com/ikornaselur/..., which includes an svg generated from .stars.txt

2022 Day 16, that's my limit. Now im ready for this year.

Do you ever have an idea when programming, but you're not sure _why_ it will work.. and then when it does work, you can't really explain it?

While solving a part 2 of #AdventOfCode 2022 Day 11, I just had a hunch to solve it efficiently.. and it works, but I'm too tired to really understand why.

I really like #AdventOfCode and try to participate every year.. But generally get burnt out before it's finished.

So this year I'm doing something different! I started in November by solving earlier years I skipped before to definitely make sure I'll be burnt out before the real event!