Alex Jasmin

@ajasmin
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Passionate Tinkerer & Developer
When the WiFi login page is “404 not found” either your IT guy has some maintenance on their hand or their evil twin is doing a piss poor job.
The little card this eBay seller puts in the enveloppe gives off an air of DIY affinity and... How should I put this? Trademark abuse?
When you don't have a 2xAA battery holder handy...
Happy Holidays! 🎄
I don't ever seem able to spell "schottky diode" properly.
Beam me up Schottky!

Startup culture has conditioned the industry into putting up fake landing pages to learn if anyone clicks Buy.

It's nice to know early on whether an idea gets traction. But this also encourages developers to sell vaporware and ship out unfinished products.

Profiling help spot performance regressions and bottlenecks in larger systems. But it can become a crutch you lean on. It won't help pick a better algorithm or streamline the data layout. It can't magically weed spaghetti out of the inner loop.

That's when you have to flex your brain muscle. Restructure the code or rewrite it with performance in mind. An eye for simplicity and a willingness to cut through geological layers of abstractions will improve things.
Staring at a flame graph won't!

[MV] 10 Years of AoC

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If you live in Montreal and like fun programming puzzles, join us for our daily meetups ending December 12.

Montréal: Advent of Code Meetup:
https://www.meetup.com/montreal-advent-of-code-meetup

Montréal: Advent of Code | Meetup

*(An english description will follow)*Rejoignez d’autres programmeurs à Montréal pour travailler en présentiel sur l’Advent of Code 2025![https://adventofcode.com](https://adventofcode.com/) est un événement en ligne qui publie un nouveau défi de programmation chaque jour du 1er au 12 décembre. Vous

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@teotwaki

Provided by this project template: https://github.com/fspoettel/advent-of-code-rust

Some of it I like, some less so. May do a PR later.

The aoc-cli this uses under the hood however is a godsend. Automatically download your puzzle inputs and descriptions in markdown.

GitHub - fspoettel/advent-of-code-rust: 🎄Starter template for solving Advent of Code in Rust.

🎄Starter template for solving Advent of Code in Rust. - fspoettel/advent-of-code-rust

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Give up and move on to the next days?
#AdventOfCode #AoC2025