I just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/3

I had a feeling when working on part 1 that part 2 was going to be an arbitrary number of batteries to select in the bank, so my solution in part 2 was to just increase the loop count from left to right finding the highest each time.

I reduced the amount to search by slicing the bank at the point where I found the highest value moving left to right, so the search was always smaller, or O(n * log(n)) for the entire bank list.

Things were baked.

#thanksgiving2025 #thanksgiving

Adults who clear out hobby stores of Pokemon cards to resell are objectively terrible, and hobby stores that don't deny these kinds of sales are equally culpable. Denying kids the ability to acquire these cards to actually play the game infuriates me as a father.

#pokemoncards #parenting

I just addressed a `@todo` in the code that had been there for 10 years. Just more evidence of how useless putting a todo in code is.

If there isn't a ticket for it, it doesn't exist.

#programminghumor

I just completed "Resonant Collinearity" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/8

Finally, hobby #gamedev comes into play with a little vector math!

#Deno #jupyter notebook solution: https://github.com/cjsaylor/adventofcode/blob/main/2024/08/day8.ipynb