It’s Advent of Code time again and, as is his wont, Mike Zamansky is meeting the challenge and blogging about his results. Even better, he’s posted a video on his solutions to the first two problems.
The video isn’t about Emacs directly but, of course, all the work is done in Emacs. Because Zamansky mostly uses Clojure for his hobbyist programming, he uses the Cider package for his programming and the video serves as a nice illustration of using Cider and Emacs as a very nice programming environment.
Although the video is nominally about Clojure, his solutions would work, mutatis mutandis, with any Lisp. He uses the threading macros, which although not strictly necessary make things a little clearer. If you program in any of the Lisps, you’ll almost certainly enjoy the video and his solutions to the problems.
Irreal readers know that Zamansky is planning to retire at the end of the Spring semester but if he continues to produce videos like this one, we’ll all be pleased. Even if the videos aren’t specifically about Emacs, it’s useful to see examples of using Emacs to solve real problems. Regardless, enjoy this video and let Zamansky know you liked it so we can guilt encourage him to produce more. I always learn a lot from his videos and hope he produces more.