Wim van der Ham

I just completed "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 adventofcode.com/2025/day/7 #AdventOfCode A little problem with Part One (did some double counting), but once I understood the required approach for Part Two (@jonathanpaulson5053) got the right answer in a single go...

I just completed "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 adventofcode.com/2025/day/6 #AdventOfCode Very difficult parsing on part two :-( or maybe I'm just stupid... Anyway, fixed the bugs and solved the problem.

I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 adventofcode.com/2025/day/2 #AdventOfCode Slowly catching up... Only two days behind :-(

I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 adventofcode.com/2025/day/1 #AdventOfCode Way too late (both regarding the day as the time of the day) and this was only the first one...

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I just completed "Disk Fragmenter" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2024 adventofcode.com/2024/day/9 #AdventOfCode Catching up on some old days... This one was nice. Lots of bugs in Part One, only a few in Part Two ;-)

I just completed "LAN Party" - Day 23 - Advent of Code 2024 adventofcode.com/2024/day/23 #AdventOfCode Cheated a little because there's still a bug to fix but with a little manual insertion I found the answer (and the correct password for the LAN Party)

I just completed "Restroom Redoubt" - Day 14 - Advent of Code 2024 adventofcode.com/2024/day/14 #AdventOfCode Had first part coded in no-time but didn't divide in the right Quadrants... After that Part Two was a visual inspection, maybe AI could have done that instead of me.

I just completed "Claw Contraption" - Day 13 - Advent of Code 2024 adventofcode.com/2024/day/13 #AdventOfCode Basically this was an algebra problem, two equations with two variables... With two formulas I found the times for buttons A & B, part two didn't require any additional coding

I just completed "Garden Groups" - Day 12 - Advent of Code 2024 adventofcode.com/2024/day/12 #AdventOfCode Just hours before the next day starts on the Advent of Code, solved this one. Finding regions was the challenge and after that group fences into sides.

I just completed "Plutonian Pebbles" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2024 adventofcode.com/2024/day/11 #AdventOfCode First Part simple and straight forward with brute force that doesn't work with Part Two. There you need recursion and keep track of previous results.

I just completed "Hoof It" - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2024 adventofcode.com/2024/day/10 #AdventOfCode Had to take a short evening nap to get to the solution of Part One and after that Part Two was just a few coding steps away :-) Now I'm off to bed for real 😴

I just completed "Resonant Collinearity" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2024 adventofcode.com/2024/day/8 #AdventOfCode A quick one before going to bed (some would prefer the inverse :-)) Anyway Day 8 solved, catching up a bit. This one was easy once you count the Antennas too in Part 2

I just completed "Print Queue" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2024 adventofcode.com/2024/day/5 #AdventOfCode Fixed this one two ;-) Got stuck on this one due to a few bugs, but the real help came from Patrick Tingen's solution: fixList, checkList (if needed repeat) ;-)

I just completed "Bridge Repair" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2024 adventofcode.com/2024/day/7 #AdventOfCode For Part Two I needed a function to give back an INT64 in base 3, took me way too much time and several tries to get it right. After that the solution was easy. I'm getting old:-(

I just completed "Ceres Search" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2024 adventofcode.com/2024/day/4 #AdventOfCode Finally solved Day 04. Problem was reading the input with an extra (empty) line at the end 😠

I just completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 adventofcode.com/2024/day/3 #AdventOfCode The parser for Part One was ready in 90 minutes, for Part Two the problem was the enablement ON ALL LINES (not per line...)