yeeeee, it's ππadvent of nim time! that time of the year where I am miraculously excited to get out of a bed at 6 am! π I plan to blog about my solutions in nim in my usual repo here: <https://github.com/pietroppeter/adventofnim>
I also plan to share the link to my solutions in reddit daily threads and likely on twitter, it is a good way to have some interests in nim from outsiders. The adventofcode reddit is definitely worth it during advent of code, lots of people sharing fun or impressing stuff (often both)! hopefully I will also improve the site, but the main goal for this year is to have fun doing visualizations with <https://github.com/pietroppeter/p5nim> πΈπp5nim is a wrapper of [p5.js](https://p5js.org/), a great library (+ ecosystem + community) to visualize and animate stuff, mostly targeting beginners, designers, artists. I picked up some old bindings which were not working, fixed them, adding features (added support for saving a gif that came with a recent p5js release, that will come handy to share on twitter), started adding some examples (love [this](https://pietroppeter.github.io/p5nim/okazz_220919a.html)) and improving the api from nim point of view (some great work has been done recently by @vindaar on instance mode that I plan to use to have multiple p5 instances in the same page). There are still a few rough edges and missing stuff, the idea is that using it in advent of code will help me clean this up and make a proper release. @PMunch, your streams are great, glad you keep them up! some generic useful refs: * search solutions by language: [https://aocweb.yulrizka.com/?year=2021&day=1&language=Nim](https://aocweb.yulrizka.com/?year=2021&day=1&language=Nim) * jittered scatterplot of leaderboard times: <http://www.maurits.vdschee.nl/scatterplot/> * (new!) a recent nice reddit thread in r/adventofcode has all past problems categorized (comes with a csv!): <https://pietroppeter.github.io/p5nim/okazz_220919a.html>
