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It was bothering me that the date format on my #fedora / #kde system was kind of wrong. I am Austrian, and we are used to dd.mm.yyyy. But on my system it was always displayed as dd.mm.yy (two‑digit year instead of four).

I thought surely it could be […]

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January 23, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Doing #adventofcode again. Working my way through 2020 and playing with numbers again.
January 15, 2026 at 6:03 PM
January 8, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Mapping out which USB ports are in which IOMMU group of my motherboard and can be safely used for PCI passthrough to a VM running on #proxmox.

#linux
January 8, 2026 at 4:23 PM
I completed #adventofcode 2021 today by finishing day 25. I did it in #typescript, which was ok, but it’s missing some important features I’m used to, such as object equality and comparison mechanisms. The same goes for tuples, which can’t be compared by value […]

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January 7, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Doing #adventofcode 2021 day 24 the easy way. Wrote C++ code that uses all cores to look for the solution while I think of a better way. Let's see who will get the solution first, my brain or the program.
January 6, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Didn't I say I am glad, that #adventofcode was shorter this year? Look at me doing AoC 2021 now. 🫣

https://github.com/nharrer/AdventOfCode/blob/main/2021/day19/solve-day19.ts
December 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I’ve been a long time #windows user (since 3.11). And I also use #linux a lot for server stuff. But my working machine has always been windows.

But this year is the year. About a month ago, I completely switched to Linux, and I went all in. I’m now running a […]

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December 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
#adventofcode Day 12: Christmas Tree Farm

Sigh. I wasted the whole morning rotating patterns, throwing away identical patterns, pattern matching, and stuff. Then, on a hunch, I just entered the number of rows that could be solvable (eliminating those where […]

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December 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
#adventofcode Day 11: Reactor

Wow, turned out to be the almost shortest and fastest code of this year. Enduring so many past AoC graph puzzles has finally paid off. I even finished both parts before breakfast. Okay, I’ll stop bragging now. There is still one […]

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December 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Another meme for #adventofcode day 10
December 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
#adventofcode Day 10: Factory

Part 1 was easy, and I did it before breakfast.

But Part 2: Oh my! I tried to do it with combinatorics first, and it was too slow, even after countless optimizations. There is probably a dynamic programming way to do it, but […]

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December 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
#adventofcode Day 09: Movie Theater

Oh boy, did I get lost on part 2 by trying to solve it through fragmenting the area into rectangles.

While it was getting more and more complicated, it occurred to me that I could just compress the input and brute force it […]

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December 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#adventofcode Day 08: Playground

Another fun puzzle. I was afraid that building all the pairs would be too slow, but actually 1000*999/2 is not very much, and the code completes in a quarter of a second, so good enough. Today I refrained from structuring […]

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December 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
#adventofcode Day 07: Laboratories

What a cool puzzle! I love that the solution represents a beautiful Christmas tree.

On the second part, I first thought about recursions. But then, wait a second... It's way easier.

On a side note: I switched from Windows […]

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December 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
#adventofcode Day 06: Trash Compactor

I first solved the puzzle it with a couple of loops. Even though functional code is ugly in C#, I took my time today to unroll all the loops into a functional style, which makes the code pretty compact.

With 20 lines […]

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December 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
#adventofcode Day 05: Cafeteria

Alrighty. Today was about has hard (or easy) as yesterday for me I'd say. But I am not complaining. The hard stuff is coming soon enough!

With 21 lines of code, this has been my smallest solution so far this year.

#csharp […]

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December 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
#adventofcode Day 04: Printing Department

Today was good. I was done in about 10-15 minutes, which is phenomenal for me because I am a rather slow person.

I spent some time improving the code and noticed that the functional methods like .Count and .Sum are […]

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December 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
#adventofcode Day 03: Lobby

Today was right up my alley.
I think that is the kind of problem that really occurs in a developer’s everyday work

When I was done, I also tried to do it in a more functional way, but it looked so complicated. In the end, two […]

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December 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
#adventofcode Day 02: Secret Entrance

It took me a bit longer than yesterday, but this time both answers were correct on the first try. Nice!

#csharp code is here:
https://github.com/nharrer/AdventOfCode/blob/main/dotnet/2025/Day02/Day02.cs

Puzzle:
https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/2
December 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
#adventofcode Day 01: Secret Entrance

Oh man, I really fumbled my way through part 2. It sounded easier than it actually was. I kept yelling to myself: "Hey it's day 1, you should be finished by now!".

#csharp code is here […]

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December 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I almost forgot about #adventofcode this year. Well, It's on tomorrow!
Last year I did it in #rust just to learn the language, but I haven’t used Rust since, so I’m feeling very rusty 🫤. Since I probably won’t have much time this year, I think I’ll pick […]

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November 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thin sheets of printed TPU almost behave like leather. I repaired my son's lunch box after a lid broke off. It's not the prettiest fix, but my son likes it for some reason. It does have a bit of a steampunk vibe. I tried to glue it on, but neither CA glue nor […]

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October 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I absolutely love #opensource software.

I use #octoprint with Octolapse to create time-lapses of my 3D prints. However, sometimes I want to decide whether to print with or without a time-lapse right when I start printing a piece, as having time lapses enabled […]

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October 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Printing silly stuff for the kids.

#3dprinting
October 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM