last year i never did any aoc, though i've been retroactively working on some of the problems. this year i'll do it!

i always aspire to complete the whole month and get stymied partway through. hopefully this year will be different :) i will show more persistence and do more background research on the compsci fundamentals; maybe i'll write some abstracted algorithms or data structures to do frequent tasks. the recommended reading below is mostly for myself!

i'm putting my solutions on tangled, writing in rust, using jujutsu for version control, and a nix flake for a dev environment. it's a good mix of low-friction while still using new tools that i want to be better at. plus, i don't use rust at work much anymore, so i need to keep the proverbial rust off.

recommended reading:

  1. this comment on lobste.rs, which discusses strategies if you find yourself stuck, common data structurs & algorithms, and textbooks to read for more of a theory background
  2. elly's post, elly's solved every aoc out there and has good advice