This year, I played 'Advent of Code Golf': a Code Golf over Advent of Code: calendar of coding puzzles by Eric Wastl. Miraculously, I have managed to fit all my solutions in 2024 symbols (a perfect number for the 2025 calendar!). But as soon as I have written the part 1, I became nagged by my results. 'All solutions' weren't really all solutions. That was worth improving...

Every year, I play Advent of Code, an advent calendar of coding puzzles by Eric Wastl. This year I wanted an extra challenge. I decided to spend hours writing horrible, unreadable, bodged-together code full of code smells, bad practices, and hacks. I decided to do Code Golf.

The idea of living in a computer simulation is nice, but we are obviously just a lab experiment of 11D aliens 👽 Evidence...