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Advent of Functional PHP: Review

Lessons learned about Functional PHP from Advent of Code.

Advent of Functional PHP: Day 10

For the [10th Day of Advent of Code](https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/10), we're asked to solve a matching braces problem. This is a common parser exercise, but it's made a bit more complex in this...

Advent of Functional PHP: Day 9

[Day 9](https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/9) of this year's Advent of Code revolves around grid interpretation. Specifically, we are given a grid of numbers and want to find the low points, that is,...

Advent of Functional PHP: Day 7

Advent of Code [Day 7](https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/7) this year is another problem that's more about the math than about the programming, so we won't see much in the way of new functional...

Caddy as a Secure Reverse Proxy

I've been using Caddy as a front-end reverse proxy for several years now, on the advice of Marco Pivetta. Somewhere along the line version 2 was released, and I updated at some point, but evidently...

Advent of Functional PHP: Day 6

[Day 6's challenge](https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/6) is a little fishy. Given what we've already done so far, it's pretty simple. The only catch is making sure you do it in an efficient way....

Advent of Functional PHP: Day 5

After the last two days, [Day 5 of Advent of Code](https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/5) is almost mundane in comparison. Today we're asked to read in the definition for a series of lines and compute...

Advent of Functional PHP: Day 3

The [third challenge](https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/3) in this year's Advent of Code is all about bit manipulation. We're asked to read in a series of binary numbers and interpret them in various...

Advent of Functional PHP: Day 4

[Day 4](https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/4) of Advent of Code has us playing bingo against a giant squid. (Don't ask; I don't understand it either.) More specifically, we want to take an input file...

Advent of Functional PHP: Day 2

In [today's challenge](https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/2), we're asked to interpret a series of basic command lines from a file and update the position of our submarine accordingly. It's basically...

Advent of Functional PHP: Day 1

[Today's challenge](https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/1) asks us to interpret a list of numbers. In the first part, our goal is to determine how many elements in the list are larger than their...

Advent of Code 2021: Functional PHP

I am planning to participate in [Advent of Code](https://adventofcode.com/) this year. For those not familiar with it, it's a daily coding challenge that runs through December, until Christmas....