https://elvisbrevi.cl/ Notes, write-ups and side projects by Elvis Brevi, a full-stack developer exploring Rust, C# and the cloud. en Sat, 20 Jan 2024 00:02:40 GMT https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2024-01-20-advent-of-code-2015-day-8-matchsticks https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2024-01-20-advent-of-code-2015-day-8-matchsticks Sat, 20 Jan 2024 00:02:40 GMT Counting the characters of string literals in code versus in memory in Rust, and what it costs to encode them again. https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2023-12-20-advent-of-code-2015-day-7-some-assembly-required https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2023-12-20-advent-of-code-2015-day-7-some-assembly-required Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:51:19 GMT Emulating a circuit of wires and bitwise logic gates in Rust to find the signal that reaches wire a. https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2023-12-15-advent-of-code-2015-day-6-probably-a-fire-hazard https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2023-12-15-advent-of-code-2015-day-6-probably-a-fire-hazard Fri, 15 Dec 2023 14:34:28 GMT Switching a 1000×1000 grid of lights in Rust, parsing Santa's instructions with regex, then adjusting each light's brightness. https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2023-12-12-advent-of-code-2015-day-5-doesnt-he-have-intern-elves-for-this https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2023-12-12-advent-of-code-2015-day-5-doesnt-he-have-intern-elves-for-this Tue, 12 Dec 2023 10:31:58 GMT Telling naughty strings from nice ones in Rust, first with vowel and double-letter rules, then with letter pairs and repeats. https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2023-12-11-advent-of-code-2015-day-4-the-ideal-stocking-stuffer https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2023-12-11-advent-of-code-2015-day-4-the-ideal-stocking-stuffer Mon, 11 Dec 2023 10:45:01 GMT Mining AdventCoins in Rust by brute-forcing MD5 hashes that start with five, and then six, zeroes. https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2023-12-07-advent-of-code-2015-day-3-perfectly-spherical-houses-in-a-vacuum https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2023-12-07-advent-of-code-2015-day-3-perfectly-spherical-houses-in-a-vacuum Thu, 07 Dec 2023 21:05:53 GMT Counting the houses Santa visits on an infinite grid in Rust, then sharing the route with Robo-Santa. https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2023-12-06-advent-of-code-2015-day-2-i-was-told-there-would-be-no-math https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2023-12-06-advent-of-code-2015-day-2-i-was-told-there-would-be-no-math Wed, 06 Dec 2023 18:35:21 GMT Working out how much wrapping paper and ribbon the elves need in Rust, then refactoring the solution to avoid unwrap(). https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2023-12-05-advent-of-code-2015-day-1-not-quite-lisp https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2023-12-05-advent-of-code-2015-day-1-not-quite-lisp Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:02:21 GMT Following Santa's parentheses floor by floor in Rust, and finding the step that first takes him into the basement. https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2023-10-14-improving-nodejs-with-rust-wasm-library https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2023-10-14-improving-nodejs-with-rust-wasm-library Sat, 14 Oct 2023 19:38:21 GMT Compiling a Rust library to WebAssembly with wasm-pack, calling it from the browser and from Node.js, and timing it against plain JavaScript. https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2023-07-05-static-web-page-with-continuous-deployment-and-iac https://elvisbrevi.cl/post/2023-07-05-static-web-page-with-continuous-deployment-and-iac Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:51:01 GMT How I hosted my blog on AWS's free tier: a Vite site on S3 and CloudFront, infrastructure as code with AWS CDK and continuous deployment with GitHub Actions.