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on top of that, did "AI" make most of tech forget that regex exists and that you can just sanitize inputs

I just completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/3

okay! okay. hell yeah that felt good

;) adding the leaderboard code in the description!

also i've been test driving other editors because vs code is SO chonky and kate isn't too bad so far, although i still need to like. fix my emacs setup that i messed up somehow

but also, i'm a php programmer so truly what programming language doesn't do at least a few things that you go "why????" about

really gotta stop trying to do these when i'm super tired but i think i now like actually understand how vecs work
that said it feels kind of silly that some things use .len() and some things use .count() and it seems a bit odd to me that getting the length of a vector consumes it.

I just completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2. i've really gotta stop trying to start these when i'm super tired, wheeze

i used skyfeed.app for this one—it has a custom feed builder that makes it pretty easy!

late because I was driving most of the day but i did do it in rust. i now at least understand how string splitting works and how to work with it properly (mostly)

also damn. programs run fast

I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

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i feel like my third eye has opened

friendship ended with flexbox css grid is my new best friend

when's wastl going to get on this platform anyway

i'll probably find by him replying to this post with "HI CARLY HO"

just say no to using bootstrap in production. write your own css i promise it's not hard to learn

"carly are you trying to unfuck someone else's previous bootstrap work right now" yes.

i keep being surprised that job descriptions still ask for stuff like "proficient in bootstrap" occasionally because it has always been true that it's great for rapid prototyping and dogshit for actual production

i've tried and failed at rust in the past because i had a weird struggle with string manipulation in it... but also that does make me want to wrestle with it more
(also oh worm about google)

that *is* reminding me that i should relearn pascal since i think i knew it when i was like ten and then completely forgot the whole thing

I do in fact have a lot of free time but that *is* a good consideration!

So, my background is pretty eclectic—I'm proficient to expert in JS, PHP, Ruby, Python, probably some other thing I'm forgetting, and I'm currently working largely in PHP freelance. I'd like to branch out a little and learn some new tricks—I've traditionally been weak in typed/compiled languages.

what programming language do i try and learn really fast for #AdventOfCode

1️⃣ Go
2️⃣ Rust

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oh good i'm not the only one that feels this

gonna start repostin my best bangeres from old twidder like that time I wrot “im birb”” or tjat time i wrote “i like bread” or that time i wrote “”help i am aware why am i aware oh god””

this happens to me a lot.

you ever like, have a moment where you come up with a stunningly bad idea (plugin to make wordpress export to static files whenever a post/page is saved and then compile a static site from that) and feel compelled to actually act on it

Thread. Just a reminder that these so-called “fonts” that exist in plain text are not actual fonts. They are separate Unicode encodings because they are used in mathematics.

Your computer encodes a regular S as U+0073

Your computer encodes the double-struck 𝕊 as U+1D54A

preemptively making an #AdventOfCode feed for when I lose my mind again in a couple weeks

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oh, fun! where is it this year? i had a great time the one time i went