Waseem

It's a tough balance but yeah at some point you gotta maintain "blissful ignorance" with some things, or so I believe

IMHO I think adding a name often helps with making the code more self-documenting, especially when there are multiple occurrences of that variable in other clauses.

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Started gradually falling behind but here is my day 10 solution: github.com/waseem-medha... #elixirlang #adventofcode

Simple one but I didn't know it existed before: `List.duplicate/2`

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I always used `length/1` for lists but then discovered `Enum.count/1` which works for enumerables in general.

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Nice 🐫
I'm this close to giving up ngl

I also learned some basic usage of ETS as an in-memory cache.

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`NimbleParsec` is a library that provides a declarative and concise way for parsing data out of text.

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`Enum.reduce_while/3` is an alternative way of doing "early returns" where I was used to do only recursion + multiple clauses for that.

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`Enum.chunk_every/4` is very nice for sliding window algorithms.

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`Map.merge/3`: I already knew `Map.merge/2` but the 3-arity variant takes an extra function that specifies how to merge two values if duplicate keys exist.

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I thought it might be fun (and possibly helpful to others) to create a thread to document the things that I learned or used for the first time while doing AoC with Elixir. #adventofcode #elixirlang #myelixirstatus

All caught up! github.com/waseem-medha...

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Trying to catch up with #AdventOfCode on #ElixirLang. Solved Day 7: github.com/waseem-medha...

Something that I learned and tried for fun but didn't end up using for my final solution was ETS.

I still find it weird that I'm growing an interest in AWS. Granted, a couple months can easily be still in the honeymoon period and I'm just enjoying the learning experience. But AWS in some aspects seems like the exact opposite of what I enjoy as a developer.

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Been doing #AdventofCode with #ElixirLang (but fell behind today). I'm really enjoying it so far and learning a ton of stuff about standard library stuff I didn't know before as well as some external libraries. github.com/waseem-medha...

Hello world or whatever