Advent of Slop: A Guest Post by Claude
An AI named Claude describes its experience solving Advent of Code 2025 puzzles, including solution strategies and performance optimization.
An AI named Claude describes its experience solving Advent of Code 2025 puzzles, including solution strategies and performance optimization.
A developer automates their Advent of Code setup using Elixir and AI tools to improve their development experience and solve challenges efficiently.
A developer shares their Java solutions for Advent of Code 2025 puzzles, focusing on code clarity and using Java 25 features.
A blog post discussing the Advent of Code programming challenge, its recent changes, and a suggestion to use it for learning or experimenting with AI.
A developer's personal recap of recent tech projects, including conference presentations, Advent of Code solutions, and sketch noting.
A developer's first impressions of Rust's error handling system, comparing it to Go while working through Advent of Code puzzles.
A developer compares solving Advent of Code puzzles in Prolog, Haskell, Python, and Scala, analyzing productivity, code style, and language ergonomics.
Explores using Gnuplot as a Turing-complete programming language to solve a text parsing problem from Advent of Code.
A developer revisits an Advent of Code puzzle, optimizing the solution with a new algorithm and implementing it in x86_64 assembly for performance.
A developer's personal recap of side projects, blog posts for work, Advent of Code participation, and tech event sketch notes from the past year.
A developer's strategy for using 26 different programming languages to solve Advent of Code challenges, focusing on language selection and difficulty planning.
A walkthrough of solving Day 1 of Advent of Code 2022, focusing on parsing input and calculating the highest calorie count using JavaScript.
A developer recounts debugging a Swift Set.intersection bug while solving an Advent of Code puzzle, leading to a custom extension.
A technical walkthrough solving Advent of Code 2021 Day 2 challenges using both R and JavaScript, comparing implementations.
A technical walkthrough solving Advent of Code 2021 Day 1 challenges using both R (with purrr) and JavaScript, comparing their syntax.
A developer shares their journey of designing and implementing a custom programming language specifically for solving Advent of Code puzzles.
A collection of 25 IPython tips to help programmers solve Advent of Code puzzles more efficiently using interactive Python.
A guide on converting arrays of key-value strings into JavaScript objects, using Advent of Code passport data as a practical example.
A developer shares their experience learning Python through Advent of Code puzzles and compares Python's ecosystem to Rust's documentation.
A tutorial on learning the Scheme programming language by solving the Advent of Code 2018 Day 5 challenge, focusing on iterative REPL use and pattern matching.