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by Mike Kalvas

I see you're not using JavaScript (which is awesome!) on one of my pages that uses it to provide a better experience. If you see something not working right, please let me know. My site should work exactly the same without it apart from any exceptions noted here.

I use prism.min.js to do syntax highlighting. It clocks in at 23kb total in size. Since the majority of the writing I do involves coding, I personally find this to be a worthwhile trade off. If you choose to keep this disabled, rest assured, the code examples are still there, they just may have some extra whitespace and obviously no syntax highlighting.

I do no tracking at all and am a zealot about keeping my pages as small as possible. If you're reading a page of mine that transfers more than about 250kb over the wire (including my most gratuitous indulgence — fonts) I've messed up.

So, if you'd like to have a slightly richer experience, consider enabling javascript for my site and I promise your trust won't be misplaced.

202411302359 Advent of Code 2024

A season of code

We're back for another year or saving Christmas through the power of programming.

#blog #tech #project #structure

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We're back again attempting to do all 25 days of Advent of Code 2024.

Same idea as last year, this is the index post with all the days as sub-pages.

I'm sticking with JavaScript like last year, but will probably hack on a few of these problems in other languages too just for a bit of fun.

As always, here's a link to my AoC GitHub repo with all the code and solutions.

Puzzle	Title	Rating
202412010000 Advent of Code 2024 Day 01	Day 01: Historian Hysteria	5
202412020000 Advent of Code 2024 Day 02	Day 02: Red-Nosed Report	4
202412030000 Advent of Code 2024 Day 03	Day 03: Mull It Over	5
202412040000 Advent of Code 2024 Day 04	Day 04: Ceres Search	2
202412050000 Advent of Code 2024 Day 05	Day 05: Print Queue	3
202412060000 Advent of Code 2024 Day 06	Day 06: Guard Gallivant	2
202412070000 Advent of Code 2024 Day 07	Day 07: Bridge Repair	5
202412080000 Advent of Code 2024 Day 08	Day 08: Resonant Collinearity	5
202412090000 Advent of Code 2024 Day 09	Day 09: Disk Fragmenter	3
202412100000 Advent of Code 2024 Day 10	Day 10: Hoof It	5
202412110000 Advent of Code 2024 Day 11	Day 11: Plutonian Pebbles	4