@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social"Hope is a Thing With Calloused Hands." Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove of the Center for Public Theology/Public Policy at YDS interviews religion author and sociologist Robert P. Jones on the "Advent in a Time of Authoritarianism" series. https://ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/
@wandklex@mastodon.artJe Advent, desto chaotischer der Packplatz fürs jeweilige Tages- #Kundenglücklichmachungsposteinlieferungsgeräusch, so will es das Gesetz. 😁
@seemannsmission@c.imSeemannsmission ist…
… im Advent an die Seeleute denken und tausende Päckchen packen für Weihnachten
@hikingdude@mastodon.social#FotoVorschlag 'Adventliches' / Advent
My wife was gifted two #Lego sets. And this was one of it. It fits super cool to the season and into our appartement.
Happy third #advent if…
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialDay 1 of my Cheese Brothers Advent of Cheese is Garlic and Dill cheese curds. They weren't bad.
#advent
#CheeseBrothers
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaThis took just a smidge longer than the Rust solve, but still not too horrible coming in at around 1.5 to 2 seconds. Getting all of the potential coordinate combinations along with their distances sorted made everything so much easier.
Solution: https://git.jamesthebard.net/jwe…
@aardrian@toot.cafeTwenty-four. There are now 24 advents. All of you wiseacres suggesting I was one calendar away from an advent of advents can stuff it.
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/web-design-dev-advent-calendars-for-2025.html
Still not making a damn adven…
@zachleat@zachleat.com*gently opens up the December 15th flap on my react CVE advent calendar*
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116074874092696186
I think this cultural shift actually started around 2008–2010, with the advent of crypto and the metastasizing of complex web frameworks that started to replace native apps.
@ebinger@bildung.socialWeihnachtsgottesdienst in #Minecraft zum vierten Advent
https://canstein-berlin.de/weihnachten2025/
@whitequark@mastodon.socialanybody doing Advent of FPGA in Amaranth? https://blog.janestreet.com/advent-of-fpga-challenge-2025/
it seems fun, and, moreover, if you have feedback as a learner I will be more than happy to use it to improve the language
@wandklex@mastodon.artDas heutige #Kundenglücklichmachungsposteinlieferungsgeräusch chillt noch kurz vor der Abreise.
Und dies ist keine Übung: der erste #klexadventskalender 2025 ist komplett fertig, gut gepackt und geht raus, um jemandem (huhu!) einen hoffentlich unvergesslichen Advent zu bereiten.
@adrianco@mastodon.social
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Compline
- Advent 3
From St John the Evangelist, Hills Road, Cambridge, with Cambridge University Schola Cantorum.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n8jw
@glauber@writing.exchange
@domm@social.linux.pizzaFor day 3 of #AdventOfCode I outsmarted myself by using `each` on an array to get the index and the value, but forgot that #Perl does not reset the counter when you exit the loop early. (It worked for part 1, though..). After switching to a stupid c-style for loop it was easy (because I agai…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPE firm Advent, FedEx, A&R, and PPF agree to acquire Polish automated parcel delivery company InPost for €7.8B; the company has 61K automated parcel lockers (Dominic Chopping/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
@edintone@mastodon.greenIt's #Advent - look out for the shepherd! #JoyForAll
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaThis one was disturbingly easy for Part 1, then got more fun on Part 2. The name of the game is rotations, and rotating the input was the key to getting it done without too much bother.
Solution: https://git.jamesthebard.net/jweatherly/advent-of-co…
@stiefkind@mastodon.socialPodcast recommendation: Have you ever heard of OMNIX, LSX, or CROMIX? Those were early – and quite exotic – Unix distributions, long before Linux. Enjoy: https://adventofcomputing.com/?guid=5b2cf3fa-0f86-4750-b302-3fb6e362d1a9
@heiseonline@social.heise.deWunschzeit im Advent! ✨ Ab dem 7. Dezember könnt ihr wieder nach oben schauen und euch etwas wünschen, denn dann beginnt der aktivste Sternschnuppenstrom des Jahres: die Geminiden!
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11102201?wt_mc=sm.re
@thek3nger@mastodon.socialThis was fun. But I can clearly optimize the algorithm once I learn #Gleam better.
I just completed "Playground" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode
@aardrian@toot.cafeNow up to 23 advent calendars:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/web-design-dev-advent-calendars-for-2025.html
Two new extras, linking @…
@der_raddler@dresden.networkIch habe heute #MdRnH extra einen Schlenker über #Marienbrücke und Antonstraße gemacht und der Stau war nicht schlimmer als sonst auch. 🤷
Aber die anekdotische Evidenz des Herrn #Zastrow e…
@jswright61@ruby.socialI just completed "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/7
@matths@toot.communityI just completed "Movie Theater" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/9
@vosje62@mastodon.nl20260208 Viering met Erik Jan Tillema - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiHjnpLDwRk (ruim 1 uur)
Soms loop ik op zondag virtueel even binnen bij De Kapel in Hilversum. Vandaag had Erik Jan Tillema v. Gogh op het menu gezet.. 😉
Viering met Erik Jan Tillema - De Kapel
https://www.dekapel.nu/viering-met-joke-werner-2e-advent/
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialHappy 3rd Advent!
@marc@kirche.socialDie Mšgoi apὸ anatolôn, die Magier aus dem Osten sind schon ein gutes Stück gekommen, auf ihrem Weg.
#Johannes der Täufer ruft uns aber zur Umkehr auf, zur Buße, denn die Ankunft des Herrn ist nah.
Ein Impuls dazu ebenfalls unter
@alm10965@mastodon.socialJaja, erster #Advent,
hab nix mit Christentum am Hut,
Adventskranz fällt bei uns aus, weil auch #IchBinArmutsbetroffen
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaOnce I pulled my head out of my ass this wasn't horrible. Part 1 was straightforward, decided to do some set stuff and managed to get it right the first time. Part 2 made my brain hurt a bit because all of the ideas that came to me were very, very slow and memory intensive. Then decided to scrap it and just do what the directions told me to do: count the paths...so I replaced the dumb with a dictionary which was so much better as an idea.
Solution:
@jaygooby@mastodon.socialFrom @…’s excellent microfictions horror advent calendar 7th Dec…
@domm@social.linux.pizzaToday I did day 1 of #AdventOfCode, and obviously missed the small trap hidden in the second part. Solved the first part with math and the second part with ... let's say a simulation (which sounds smarter than brute force clicking through all positions because I'm to dumb to figure out my Lattenzaunproblem...)
@krone@frawas.deAlarm im Advent - Todes-Viren breiten sich jetzt im Nachbarland aus #News #Nachrichten
@compfu@mograph.socialThis blog post links to all my #FreeSoftwareAdvent posts which are revolving around tools used in our VFX pipeline.
https://www.comp-fu.com/2025/12/free-software-advent-2025…
@publicvoit@graz.social @jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaI'm so glad I'm writing the solutions in both #nim and Python because I tend to find ways to improve the Python solution with the Nim one and vice versa. Today was one of those days. The biggest thing I learned though is that solving these damned puzzles exhausted will never lead to good things quality-wise.
Solution:
@aardrian@toot.cafeOn the 26th day of December I add a 26th item to the collection of advent calendars:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/web-design-dev-advent-calendars-for-2025.html
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialGestern war der Nikolaus Tag und heute ist der zweite Advent. Beim kalten Wetter verbringen die Menschen ihre Zeit vermehrt im Internet und Fediverse :mastodon:
Das ist nun populär, denn gepöbelt wird auch schon so wie mental angegriffen. Sind wir nun in der Welt von X-Shit angekommen?! Weshalb ich wieder mal ein paar Accounts sperren werde, dies aber noch rel vorsichtig und nicht pauschal 🙄
#fediverse
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgDoes anyone know of a study analysing if the advent of CI pipelines have had an impact on software development's energy usage?
@adrianco@mastodon.social#AdventOfSystemSeeing @… I started a bit late but had a go at Day 1, draw a bicycle. …
@malik@Mastodon.Social🇩🇪 Wir läuten den zweiten Advent mit einer Akustikversion von Traitor ein. 🕯️🕯️
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🇺🇸 Our XMas countdown, round 2: this time @__kimjasmin sat down with her guitar for a little acoustic version of our 2025 single ‚Traitor‘
#metalcore #acoustic
@to3k@infosec.exchangeSmutna wiadomość. InPost już od dawna nie był "polski", ale teraz już nie ma o czym dyskutować.
Rafał Brzoska w serwisie X: „Konsorcjum Inwestorów wesprze dalszy rozwój InPost Group! Konsorcjum złożone z firm: Advent Investment, A&R Investments Ltd., @FedEx Corporation oraz PPF Group zawarły porozumienie w sprawie oferty nabycia wszystkich akcji InPost S.A. po cenie 15,60 EUR za akcję Transakcja
@matths@toot.communityAnd there's another one about things I care. #svelte #adventcalendar
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialFestlichen 2. Advent lieber @… ! 🤗
@thek3nger@mastodon.socialI had a busy and fun weekend. So I am catching up. Nothing to add here.
I just completed "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/7
@seemannsmission@c.imEntdecke den Nikolaus in Dir!
Er war voller Empathie für die da, die übersehen werden - auch die Seeleute
Gedanken zum zweiten Advent
https://seemannsmission.org/entdecke-den-nikolaus-in-dir/
@_tillwe_@mastodon.social#FotoDerWoche mit gefrorenen und längst wieder aufgetauten Blättern.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2025/12/12879/
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaChanged the code structure slightly from the Python solve, added the `itertools` package because I wanted `product`. Works perfectly and I'd argue slightly more readable than the Python version. Overall pretty satisfied with the solution.
Solution: https://git.jamesthebard…
@jswright61@ruby.socialI just completed "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/6
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterI don't normally do advent calendars because I don't enjoy eating chocolate.
But then I was in the supermarket today and they had a cheese advent calendar and now I'm like a 10-year-old excitedly impatient for December to arrive just so I can start!
#Cheese
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@beeb@hachyderm.ioI think putting the `y` coordinate first in the Point struct and using a BTreeMap/BTreeSet (which is sorted by the key) was quite neat. It allowed me to query ranges (i.e. rows) efficiently without the need to keep the whole grid in memory.
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaI was worried that this would be pathfinding. Thankfully it was not pathfinding. Was definitely a fun problem, and I used more than a couple of comprehensions to get this done.
Solution: https://git.jamesthebard.net/jweatherly/advent-of-code/src/branch/main/2…
@krone@frawas.deKuriosum im Lavanttal - Gefeuerter Pacult führt WAC noch durch den Advent! #News #Nachrichten <…
@aardrian@toot.cafeMy coffee advent calendar showed up yesterday, fully ⇓ of the way through traditional advent season.
Which is fine, since I can count down to Gregorian new year. Or wait until Julian Christmas? Or Isaac Newton’s birthday!
@matths@toot.communityI just completed "Playground" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/8
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaI stayed up far too long tonight for this one, but it was fun. Saw that we were dealing with an absolute metric ton of ranges at the very beginning so my initial thought was to reduce/merge those ranges and that's what I spent most of my time on before even tackling part 1.
It paid off tremendously and made solving everything very, very easy. There's still the Nim version to write, but I'll handle that after I get some sleep.
Solution:
@marc@kirche.social @ebinger@bildung.socialEinen gesegneten 2. Advent euch allen und Kopf hoch (Wochenspruch).
Heute ist bei uns #ErprobungsZeit mit dem nagelneuen Erprobungsliederbuch. Sei live dabei oder schau dir das später an unter https://youtube.com/liv…
@stiefkind@mastodon.socialAchja. Gestern zum zweiten Advent Weißwurstfrühstück mit einem Hopf White. Weißbier aus dem Flaschl in der praktischen 0,33l-Größe für Zwischendurch. Schmeckt freilich, sonst hätt ich's nicht eigenhändig von Bayern nach Vorpommern importiert 🙂 Prost. #abenteuerbier #biervielfalt
@jswright61@ruby.socialI just completed "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/5
Lots to cleanup still, but this one is done!
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaThis took waaaay too long because I kept overlooking a glaring mistake at the range reduction algorithm, but once I saw it things went much more smoothly.
The #nim solution actually optimizes the range reduction step and comes in under a millisecond to execute which was nice.
Solution:
@domm@social.linux.pizzaToday, instead of the last day of #AdventOfCode, I will finish our MAB2-to-MARC21 converter (handling depended works), which in fact feels quite similar to working on Advent of Code puzzles.
@jaygooby@mastodon.socialAh yeah! @…’s horror advent calendar has arrived 🙌
Here’s a little taste from last year..
@hikingdude@mastodon.social @jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza @adrianco@mastodon.social#AdventOfSystemSeeing still trying to catch up to @… and spending too much time watching Donella Meadows videos. I have two more done: Advent(ure) in Systems Seeing — Day 6 — Donella Meadows on Causal Loops
@thek3nger@mastodon.socialA classic. I've implemented the sweep-merge-interval algorithm in more languages than I can remember. #Gleam
I just completed "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Compline
- Advent 2
A reflective service of night prayer from the Chapel of Keble College, Oxford. With music by Sally Beamish, Richard Pantcheff and Cecilia McDowall.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mw82
@matths@toot.communityI just completed "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/7
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaThis one was fun, probably should've waited until tomorrow to start on it. However, think it turned out pretty well. Got some slicing, lots of strings, and as always: modulo comparisons.
My solve: https://git.jamesthebard.net/jweatherly/advent-of-code/src…
@marc@kirche.socialEinen gesegneten ersten #Advent allen Lesen im Fediverse .
@jswright61@ruby.socialI just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/2
progress continues - goal today: complete Day 3 both parts and Day 4 part 1 🤞
@seemannsmission@c.imAnkommen, wenn auch nur für Zwischenhalt.
Gedanken zum vierten Advent von Seemannsdiakon Thomas Kirschner, Amsterdam
https://seemannsmission.org/ankommen-wenn-auch-nur-fuer-einen-zwischenhalt/
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaThis one took a smidge more thought as I can't abuse `zip` to rotate 2D sequences. However, just rewrote the rotation as a proc and used that. Instead of `reduce`, it was all `foldl`, and I fought with `char` vs `string` due to some of the processing operations between the normal and cephalopod problem processing.
Overall, definitely a fun solve.
Solution:
@ebinger@bildung.socialWeihnachten in #Minecraft: Hier kann man die altehrwüdige Cansteinsche #Bibel Gesellschaft #Berlin bei diesem innovativen Konzept unterstützen
@krone@frawas.deZweithöchste Warnstufe - Advent zwischen Punsch, Pollern und Sturmgewehren #News #Nachrichten <…
@matths@toot.communityDo not miss to open all the first doors today... there's a @… christmas calendar 2025, too. https://openscad.org/advent-calendar-2025/
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaThis solve felt more like #nim and less like me writing Python. More uses of `map` and `apply`, using `if/then` as a proper ternary, integer -> string conversions, etc. Also the `sugar` module makes me a happy person.
The day 2 solution in Nim:
@thek3nger@mastodon.socialGrids are my bread and butter, but I am not confident in my handling of mutable grids on #Gleam. Luckily, I didn't need any.
I just completed "Printing Department" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode
@jswright61@ruby.socialI just completed "Printing Department" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/4
And I'm caught up!
With being behind, I was in get it done mode…
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaOoooo, I knew that my initial solution for Part 1 was going to get absolutely discarded for Part 2 (which inevitably came true). Lots of string sorting, grabbing an index, and a moving window to find the largest value.
Pretty proud of the solve, it's fast and it's all that janky.
Solution: https://<…
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaThe #nim solution looks very similar to the Python one, but that works out well enough as the method works great on both. Didn't check to see if Nim had a `for/else` construction, but a friend threatened me with death if I tried.
Solution:
@jswright61@ruby.socialI just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/1
Bad start to the week and month, but, famous last words, I'm gonna try to…
@matths@toot.communityI just completed "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/5
@thek3nger@mastodon.socialI always love it when I make part 1 general enough that all I have to do for part 2 is change a parameter. #gleam
I just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode
@matths@toot.communityI just completed "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/6
@krone@frawas.deAdvent hinter Gittern - Engerl und Bengerl in der Gefängnis-Werkstatt #News #Nachrichten
@thek3nger@mastodon.socialI just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025
There is a really nice one line trick for part 2. :)
#AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/2
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaFinished up Day 11 of Advent of Code and it was definitely easier than Day 10. Nothing fancy and it's pretty fast. Did have to think about how to get part 2 solved, but it was more an implementation issue more than me just smashing keys and hoping a solution fell out.
Solution: https://
@thek3nger@mastodon.socialI've completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode
I am not sharing the solution because this year I am using #Gleam and I am far from efficient in it. Yet. :D
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaSo, decided to keep on trucking on the Advent of Code problems. Day 10 was pain, but nothing a little bit of linear algebra couldn't fix after what can only be described as herculean searching on the web...thank you Scipy.
Solution: https://git.jamesthebard.net/jweatherl
@matths@toot.communityI just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/3
@matths@toot.communityI just completed "Printing Department" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/4
@matths@toot.communityI just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/2
@matths@toot.communityI just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/1
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