For 10 years, Advent of Code published fun little daily programming puzzles every day of December. I used to enjoy picking a new programming language to try out each year - I can remember Rust, Haskell, Common Lisp, APL, Nim, Smalltalk and OCaml, but am probably forgetting a few others.

This year, they scaled things back to publish only half as many puzzles. So instead of banging my head against the wall fighting new and sometimes broken languages, I decided I'd chill and just write Python.

It remains a lovely language and a joy to write. I am really grateful to the creators of Advent of Code for so many years of pleasant puzzles.