Author archives: Hamish Wright

— Day 5: Sunny with a Chance of Asteroids (Part 2) — Hello – if you’re just visiting this blog for the first time all code can be found on GitHub here. The state of the code at the beginning of this post is release Day5Part1 (as in the end of Day5Part1). You also might […]

— Day 5: Sunny with a Chance of Asteroids (Part 1) — Hello – if you’re just visiting this blog for the first time all code can be found on GitHub here. The state of the code at the beginning of this post is release Day4Part2 (as in the end of Day4Part2). You also might like to check […]

— Day 4: Secure Container (Part 2) — Hello – if you’re just visiting this blog for the first time all code can be found on GitHub here. The state of the code at the beginning of this post is release Day4Part1 (as in the end of Day4Part1). You also might like to check out […]

— Day 4: Secure Container (Part 1) — Hello – if you’re just visiting this blog for the first time all code can be found on GitHub here. The state of the code at the beginning of this post is release Day3Part2 (as in the end of Day3Part2). You also might like to check out […]

— Day 3: Crossed Wires (Part 2) — Hello – if you’re just visiting this blog for the first time all code can be found on GitHub here. The state of the code at the beginning of this post is release Day3Part1 (as in the end of Day3Part1). You also might like to check out […]

— Day 3: Crossed Wires (Part 1) — Hello – if you’re just visiting this blog for the first time all code can be found on GitHub here. The state of the code at the beginning of this post is release Day2Part2 (as in the end of Day2Part2). You also might like to check out […]

— Day 2: 1202 Program Alarm (Part 2) — The second part of the Day 2 puzzle looks like it doesn’t require any changes to our ElfComputer itself – but requires another ElfComputerInputFinder to run multiple programs to find a specific output after trying different program inputs. So for this part I’m just going to […]

— Day 2: 1202 Program Alarm (Part 1) — So I’ve realised that it’s taking me far longer to write these blog posts than to actually solve the puzzles so far – and I’m never going to catch up with the most recent puzzles if I spend too long making these blog posts as well! […]

— Day 1: The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation (Part 2) — So we got through Day 1 Part 1 and a lot of the ground work with setting up the test suite to handle inputs and outputs – it should all be plain sailing from here! Well maybe… The first impressions of the Part […]

— Day 1: The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation (Part 1) — At last it’s time to dive in to some code – if you haven’t yet please check out the Getting Started post to make sure you have the same setup or similar to me if you want to follow along. The final code […]