Caleb Weeks

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It's that time of the year again! Advent of Code is here! And although it is only 12 days instead of...

Today (October 8, 2025), there is a post called Working pipe operator today in pure JavaScript on...

Remember how I mentioned that my code might not provide a solution that would work on your input...

This was yet another problem that my boss helped me out with for part 2. I honestly don't know if I...

My boss gave me another clue for part 2 of today's problem. I was planning on determining the number...

One thing I love about Advent of Code is that as the problems get progressively harder, they require...

When posting my solutions to Advent of Code, I try to make it so that if you were to take my code and...

I'm finally getting around to posting my solutions to Advent of Code from last year. The first week,...

I'm not particularly proud of my code for today's solution. I could definitely refactor it to reduce...

I really enjoyed today's puzzle. At first glance, it seems pretty complicated, but if you know how to...

Today was the first day I decided not to stay up to solve the puzzles right as they come out. Where I...

Last year, there were a few problems that involved dealing with ordering functions. I was unaware of...

In previous years, Advent of Code has had several problems dealing with items in a grid. After trying...

Regex is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in today's puzzles. That is one of the main reasons why I...

One thing that tripped me up for a while when solving today's puzzle is that grouping expressions in...

It's that time of the year again! Advent of Code is my favorite coding challenge, and I enjoy talking...

It's been a while since I've written on DEV! My last post was a summary of #12in23 from Exercism, and...

Last year, Exercism put together the #12in23 challenge. The goal was to learn a new programming...

Today's puzzle didn't seem particularly challenging. I figured that I would have to keep track of...

This puzzle was another easy one, especially for so late in the advent calendar. I don't have much to...

My brother and I worked on this puzzle together. That is partly why the solution is more imperative...

Similar to yesterday's puzzle, this one was fairly easy to visually inspect, but requires a bit more...

Sometimes, a problem is fairly straightforward to describe to another human, but difficult to explain...

I've been trying to add some meaningful commentary or thoughts along with each of these posts about...

About this time last year, we had to use a maze solving algorithm for one of the puzzles. Today's...

The confusing year of Advent of Code continues... I thought weekend puzzles were meant to be harder...

So... today's puzzle was a bit of a mixed bag. Part 1 had a fairly straightforward solution, but part...

Today's problem was primarily an exercise in sorting, with a little bit of math/logic for part 2....

Yesterday, I got by without optimizing my program for part 2. Although it took hours to compute, I...