Damien Ferrand
bigbluebox.ca
Damien Ferrand
@bigbluebox.ca
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Air Canada did it again! Cancelled my flight yesterday. Now I'll arrive 36 hours later than planned and spend 2 full days in airports waiting. Zero accommodations, zero service.
How they still exist is the greatest mystery of life!
March 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Reposted by Damien Ferrand
Google "Squid Game".

Click the envelope.

You're welcome.
December 20, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Advent of Code day 14 in RPG!

Part 1 was pretty simple, used regular expressions to extract data and the %REM function is central to the program.

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Advent of Code 2024 day 14, RPG edition
This is the fourteenth day of Advent of Code, let’s solve today’s puzzles with RPG. The puzzle as well as the input data are available here. The code is available here. Part 1 We are provided with a (...
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December 15, 2024 at 3:38 AM
Advent of Code day 13 in RPG!

I resisted the temptation to use brute force to solve part 1 and used math instead (just kidding, I could resist mathing it out).

This made part 2 ultra simple too!

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Advent of Code 2024 day 13, RPG edition
This is the thirteenth day of Advent of Code, let’s solve today’s puzzles with RPG. The puzzle as well as the input data are available here. The code is available here. Part 1 We are provided with a (...
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December 14, 2024 at 1:29 AM
Advent of Code day 11 in RPG!

I have to stop saying that one day's puzzle is easy because the next one is hard and today was brutal.

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Advent of Code 2024 day 11, RPG edition
This is the eleventh day of Advent of Code, let’s solve today’s puzzles with RPG. The puzzle as well as the input data are available here. The code is available here. Part 1 We are provided with a (st...
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December 11, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Advent of Code day 10 in RPG!

After yesterday's tough challenge, a bit of respite with an easy challenge! And part 2 was easier than part 1 for once.
Today was solved with recursivity and dynamic arrays.

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Advent of Code 2024 day 10, RPG edition
This is the tenth day of Advent of Code, let’s solve today’s puzzles with RPG. The puzzle as well as the input data are available here. The code is available here. Part 1 We are provided with a (strea...
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December 11, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Advent of Code day 8 in RPG!

They were nice with us on this sunday, quite an easy puzzle.

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Advent of Code 2024 day 8, RPG edition
This is the eighth day of Advent of Code, let’s solve today’s puzzles with RPG. The puzzle as well as the input data are available here. The code is available here. Part 1 We are provided with a (stre...
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December 8, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Advent of Code day 7 in RPG!

Part 1 was quite challenging but recursivity helps to solve it.

Part 2 is deceptively simple once you've solved part 1.

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Advent of Code 2024 day 7, RPG edition
This is the seventh day of Advent of Code, let’s solve today’s puzzles with RPG. The puzzle as well as the input data are available here. The code is available here. Part 1 We are provided with a (str...
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December 7, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Advent of Code day 5 in RPG!

Today was challenging but I used many interesting RPG features:
* dynamic arrays
* %split
* %concatarr
* recursive calls
* IN operator
Modern RPG is really fun to code with!
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Advent of Code 2024 day 5, RPG edition
This is the fifth day of Advent of Code, let’s solve today’s puzzles with RPG. The puzzle as well as the input data are available here. The code is available here. Part 1 We are provided with a (strea...
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December 6, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Advent of Code day 4 in RPG!

It was a lot of fun playing with pointers and the LISTAGG SQL function.

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Advent of Code 2024 day 4, RPG edition
This is the fourth day of Advent of Code, let’s solve today’s puzzles with RPG. The puzzle as well as the input data are available here. The code is available here. Part 1 We are provided with a (stre...
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December 4, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Advent of Code day in RPG!

Simpler than day 2 but very fun.

Solved by using regular expressions in RPG via SQL.

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Advent of Code 2024 day 3, RPG edition
This is the third day of Advent of Code, let’s solve today’s puzzles with RPG. The puzzle as well as the input data are available here. The code is available here. Part 1 We are provided with a (strea...
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December 3, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Day 2 of Advent of Code in RPG!

It's a bit more challenging than day 1, especially part 2, but more fun!
That's a good example of using recursivity in ILE RPG procedures.
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Advent of Code 2024 day 2, RPG edition
This is the second day of Advent of Code, let’s solve today’s puzzles with RPG. The puzzle as well as the input data are available here. The code is available here. Part 1 We are provided with a (stre...
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December 3, 2024 at 2:02 AM