It’s not long to wait now, Advent of Code will soon begin. For 2025 there are changes with fewer challenges and the removal of the global leaderboard. This is the fourth year I’ve posted about taking part in Advent of code and this year the event will be different. Eric Wastl recently posted that this year Advent of …

The countdown has now begun for Advent of Code and it’s time to start getting ready for the challenges ahead. This year I’m breaking from my usual tactic of trying to learn a new language and instead I’ll be using a language I’ve used before albeit one which I now have more experience with. So this year, my language of …

A while ago I attempted AOC using Python as I needed to learn Python for a change in my role. Now that I’m 18 months into working with Python, I think that getting the AoC repo set up correctly from the beginning would have been a big boost to getting things consistent. In this post we will look at the tools that I …