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Introducing: my new blog for solving #AdventOfCode !

https://aoc.winslowjosiah.com

I've written detailed explanations of all my solutions from 2023 (with the rest to come). Be sure to check back on it once #AdventOfCode2025 comes!

#Python #programming #blog #Christmas

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Josiah Winslow's solutions for Advent of Code.

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Instead of doing relentless advent of code challenges I decided I’d work on something fun instead 😁

https://puzzles.lloydatkinson.net/

#adventofcode #programming #christmas

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Who says the performing arts are dead? :fozzie_wocka_wocka:

"It had all the trappings of a conventional #Christmaspageant: the three wise men, #Christmas carols, and children dressed as angels.

But there was a twist: This pageant, performed on Sunday in #NewJersey, also included a #Hasidic #Jewish #caricature, carrying a sack of coins and dancing with the devil.

Earlocks swaying, the character called #Moshko entered the room to the tune of “#HavaNagila,” offered a greeting in mock #Yiddish, and announced that he was selling liquor, in a brazen effort to distract the #Christians from reverence about the birth of #Jesus.

The pageant that took place at #StMary Protectress #Ukrainian Orthodox #Church in #Clifton, New Jersey, is known as a #vertep — a form of theater prominent in Slavic Christmas celebrations. Caricatures of Jewish figures that promote stereotypes about #Jews and greed are a longstanding and frequent feature."

https://www. timesofisrael.com/jewish-caric ature-in-ukrainian-christmas-tradition-appears-at-nj-church-drawing-criticism/

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Jewish caricature in Ukrainian Christmas tradition appears at NJ church, drawing criticism

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Church shares video of man dressed as Hasidic Jew who refers to himself as a 'zhyd' while carrying a sack of coins and dancing with the devil

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Church shares video of man dressed as Hasidic Jew who refers to himself as a 'zhyd' while carrying a sack of coins and dancing with the devil

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Jewish caricature in Ukrainian Christmas tradition appears at NJ church, drawing criticism

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Church shares video of man dressed as Hasidic Jew who refers to himself as a 'zhyd' while carrying a sack of coins and dancing with the devil

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דער קערפער פֿון השם

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Contrast between old and new. Vertical panorama of the Christmas market last month in #Frankfurt. Taken from the Frankfurt Cathedral.

#fotomontag #photomonday #photography #fotografie #photo #cityscape #city #ffm #christmas #christmasmarket #skyline #night #nightphotography #bluehour #paulskirche #römer #oldtown #house #fineart #fineartphotography #warm #light #lights #fujifilm

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Frankfurt's old town in the evening against the city skyline. The streets of the old town are illuminated by the warm colors of the Christmas market, contrasting beautifully with the blue tones of the rest of the city.

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Morning, everyone! It's the 12th Day of Christmas, and also (for me) the first official working day of 2026. Let's do this! :-) #Christmas #work

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It's the penultimate day of Christmas, everyone! :-) #Christmas

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Don't forget, everyone: we're still technically in the Christmas period. It's Day Ten today (of Twelve). :-) #Christmas

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It's the Ninth Day of Christmas. :)

#Christmas

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Happy Eighth Day of Christmas, everyone! :) #Christmas

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Happy Day Seven, everyone! :) #Christmas

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Happy Sixth Day of Christmas, everyone!

Someone just messaged the radio to say how she's taking her Christmas decorations down. Umm... no. It's only the sixth day of Christmas. The decorations have to stay up until after the 12th day (which is 5 January). It's the law.

Then again, they also shouldn't be going UP before 15 December, and everyone these days seem to be putting them up on the first. What's happening with the world? :P

#Christmas

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Happy Fifth Day of Christmas, everyone! :) #Christmas

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My #Clojure answer to this
https://github.com/lambdasierra/twelve-days-of-clojure

“#Christmas #coding #challenge: write a program that prints the full lyrics to the Twelve Days of Christmas, but be #weird about it.” https://old.mermaid.town/@futzle/11576 5251257948817

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GitHub - lambdasierra/twelve-days-of-clojure: “Twelve Days of Christmas” text generator

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“Twelve Days of Christmas” text generator. Contribute to lambdasierra/twelve-days-of-clojure development by creating an account on GitHub.

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“Twelve Days of Christmas” text generator. Contribute to lambdasierra/twelve-days-of-clojure development by creating an account on GitHub.

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GitHub - lambdasierra/twelve-days-of-clojure: “Twelve Days of Christmas” text generator

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“Twelve Days of Christmas” text generator. Contribute to lambdasierra/twelve-days-of-clojure development by creating an account on GitHub.

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#Christmas #coding #challenge: write a program that prints the full lyrics to the Twelve Days of Christmas, but be #weird about it. 

Choose whatever programming language you like. Use the language’s idiosyncrasies to your advantage. 

For example, in C you might blend a for-loop with a switch-statement and liberally use case fallthrough. In BASIC you might use computed GOTO. In HTML+CSS you might use counters and selectors to do the numbering. In SQL you might use SQL.

Go.

Submissions so far in: awk, C, Clojure, Haskell, JavaScript, LINQ, Lua, nu, Perl, PostgreSQL, Powershell, Python, Ruby, Rust, Terraform, XQuery, XSLT, as well as a hardware implementation on an Arduino and a couple of very cool visualizations.

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#Christmas #coding #challenge: write a program that prints the full lyrics to the Twelve Days of Christmas, but be #weird about it. 

Choose whatever programming language you like. Use the language’s idiosyncrasies to your advantage. 

For example, in C you might blend a for-loop with a switch-statement and liberally use case fallthrough. In BASIC you might use computed GOTO. In HTML+CSS you might use counters and selectors to do the numbering. In SQL you might use SQL.

Go.

Submissions so far in: awk, C, Clojure, Haskell, JavaScript, LINQ, Lua, nu, Perl, PostgreSQL, Powershell, Python, Ruby, Rust, Terraform, XQuery, XSLT, as well as a hardware implementation on an Arduino and a couple of very cool visualizations.

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Lol. The Mel Gibson Defense :kermitsip:

"In response to the backlash, Dunsheath posted a public apology on her Facebook page on December 26.

The statement read: "I would like to make a formal apology to the sJewish community for the #ethnic #slur that I made when I made [sic] on #Christmas Day. I was not in my right mind that day I had to [sic] many drinks and not eaten the whole day because I was cooking the entire day. When I heard my son was in an accident, my mind was in such disarray that I totally lost my cool."

She then disabled comments on the post, which some critics interpreted as an attempt to avoid further scrutiny."

https://www. jfeed.com/antisemitism/antisem itic-tirade-apology

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New Jersey Woman Apologizes After Antisemitic Tirade Following Car Crash - JFeed

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It's not a great idea to lose your mind and hurl ethnic slurs at Jews on Xmas Day, as an NJ woman recently discovered. - JFeed Israel News

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It's not a great idea to lose your mind and hurl ethnic slurs at Jews on Xmas Day, as an NJ woman recently discovered. - JFeed Israel News

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New Jersey Woman Apologizes After Antisemitic Tirade Following Car Crash - JFeed

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It's not a great idea to lose your mind and hurl ethnic slurs at Jews on Xmas Day, as an NJ woman recently discovered.

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דער קערפער פֿון השם

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Happy Fourth Day of Christmas, everybody! :)

#Christmas

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#LotR #Fediverse #Christmas

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Still from Lord of the rings with Sam telling Frodo: "there's some good in the fediverse, and it's worth miratin' for.

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In Scotland, the days between Christmas and hogmanay are known as "daft days."

Along with many others, I like to call these days "Betwixtmas."

HAPPY DAFT DAYS OF BETWIXTMAS, Y'ALL

#DaftDays
#Betwixtmas
#Christmas
#Hogmanay
#NewYear

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Bought myself a drawing tablet for #christmas. Didn't even have to install any software for it
@kde already got all the required bells n whistles right in the system settings

I love linux.

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Picture of the drawing tablet settings in kde

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I got a WiFi mesh system for Christmas, and wow, I can't believe I never did it sooner. No more worrying about two separate WiFi networks, and if you're on *this* side of the house, you need to make sure you're connected to network A, and if you're on *that* side of the house, please connect to network B.

Now there's just one network and full signal no matter where you are in the house or garden. :-)

I also got two 1Gbps Ethernet switches, because the mesh units don't have any spare (our old routers had 3 each, which was never enough anyway), and I still maintain that Ethernet trumps WiFi for speed, latency, and reliability, and if I can connect a device to Ethernet *or* WiFi, you best believe I'm going to prefer Ethernet.

The network in general is much faster now too, because the previous routers only supported 100Mbps Ethernet (oh, and of course the mesh units connect to each other via cable, because what would be the point otherwise?). :D

#Christmas #GeekGifts

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Eh, pls #boost my request to #getfedihired, if you could spare two clicks? 🥺

I've been humming and hawing about posting this, it feels strange, something about generational guilt & working class shame & ... but it's either this or start putting my CV through LLMs to include every buzzword on the listing I'm applying to. I haven't been able to stomach that, even though I presume that's a lot of my competition.

I simply can't get to an interview. Historically, I've done three interviews and got the job each time, because I'm a real human being who is friendly and chatty and presents himself sincerely (or, that's my guess, anyway).

#Christmas miracles appreciated!

In #Ireland with my partner, but we've lived in different places and would move happily. I've a year experience doing an IT support role the last year, but have transitioned to this stuff later than usual.

Before I've done: bartender; bicycle courier for Deliveroo in #Berlin for two years (best job ever); private tutor for five years in #Lyon (mostly piano but also maths, Irish, English, flute, tin whistle); bookies clerk for a short period; a few other odd bits - one highlight was writing reviews for a theatre company.

Oh, very comfortably fluent in #French, pretty fluent in #Irish (my first love), and intermediate #German (which I would love to have a chance to go back speaking and learning).

Tech-wise, it's been mostly on the #Linux / #Emacs / #Lisp side of things. I would happily work on anything that is one or more of challenging, interesting, useful, or moral.

Money doesn't rule me. I want to live with a humane level of comfort, that's all.

CVs and references available, DMs open. Thanks so much for any and all help!