Today I dove into path finding and state machines. The problem seemed simple at first - just simulate a guard's patrol route - but it turned into a fascinating puzzle about cycle detection. I tackled it with my usual four languages - Rust, Elixir, Go, and Haskell -

I found myself in the North Pole's printing department today, helping an elf with their safety manual updates. The printer had strict rules about page ordering - certain pages had to be printed before others. As I stared at the long list of rules like "47|53&

The elves handed me what looked like a simple word search puzzle today. Find "XMAS", they said. Easy enough - until I discovered I needed to find it in every possible direction, including diagonals and backwards. Then part 2 hit me with X-shaped patterns, and suddenly I was

Its day three of Advent of Code. Today's challenge evolved from a straightforward exercise in multiplication into an elegant dance of state management and instruction parsing. Here I am again, with Rust, Elixir, Haskell, and Go to solve it. The Challenge: A State Machine in Disguise What started

Advent of Code 2024: Day 2 - When Languages Shape Our Thinking

Solving Advent Of Code 2024 Day 1, using Elixir, Rust, Go and Haskell to how each language's philosophy and features guide us toward different solutions, even for the same simple problem.