Merry Christmas - and New Year 2025
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Dear Friends!
Thank you all for being with CodeAbbey during this year of 2024, to which we are going to say bye-bye very soon. The year was not the easiest one - both in the scope of the whole world - and perhaps to some of us personally.
In the scope of CodeAbbey, however, we may proudly boast about adding collectively over 50 new puzzles - which is
the nice achievement to say the least! Also there were some steps taken to make the site more open and to popularize it
a bit by attracting some people / entities who may be professionally interested in cooperation - this last goal steadily
continues to fail, but perhaps it's all right.
As about openness - by now we have not only large portion of code at github, but also some of colleagues who shoveled quite a bit in it and may help in case of emergency. The important part not done yet is to provide automated links to automated database backups to few peaople so that the whole thing potentially "unsinkable". But hopefully I'll figure out how to do this sooner or later. Another thing of the kind may be a "council" for accepting/refining new problems (but perhaps as now many of them come from Clive, this may bereave other members of such council of joy of solving the puzzles?)
Besies this a number of small features and improvements happened, especially those related to running of new types of problems (despite we still don't have too many of them, they probably have good potential).
I'm sorry for being in a state of slightly confused personal affairs, but nevertheless I'm slowly bubbling with various ideas (often touching this and that and then dropping partly done) - and overall I hope for the better to come :)
So many thanks to you all once more, Very best wishes for the upcoming year, Rodion
P.S. it also could be a fine moment to think and express any further ideas on possible features or improvements!
P.P.S. while I was digging in the books for some old idea useful for Christmas puzzle (and failed) - I found some other, probably well known - but seemingly worth of being represent here too: White Rectangle.
P.P.P.S. Why shouldn't be here some image with a kitty and fir-tree?
Merry Christmas - Fröhliche Weihnachten - to everybody. And thank you once more for the wonderful playground that CodeAbbey is.
Many thanks for the nice Christmas Problem. In the absence of snow here, a white rectangle is a good alternative.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone out there; and a special big thank you to Rodion for everything that he does.
On a very minor point, the example given in the problem does not have the dimensions of the matrix as its first line.
Happy holidays, everyone, and thank you for keeping this community vibrant!
Thanks, Mathias. I just noticed a redundnancy in my code which I was able to eliminate, so it's a bit more streamlined now (AoC#21 this year remains probably the record-holder of how much unnecessary code I was able to squeeze out of my incredibly messy first draft).
Yes AOC day 21 was a monster. The final code / logic feels clean and clear (after a lot of work!) and you wonder why you couldn't write that code to begin with. Day 21 took me almost 3x as long as the next hardest day (day 24). And now I have to get back to a normal sleep schedule again. :)