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Eric Wastl

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7 months

For the ninth(!) year in a row, I will be releasing 25 programming puzzles over the first 25 days of December over on ! It's completely free thanks to AoC++ supporters and thanks to sponsors. If you want to check it out early, all past puzzles are still up!

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3 years

If you're doing #AdventOfCode and learning stuff, but your code's a mess, you got the wrong answer, you're a few days behind, it took you several hours, you're in a language you're not familiar with... All I hear is that you're learning stuff. You're doing great!! 🌟❤️🎄🧑‍🎄

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2 years

As an AWS user, I often want to know the cheapest options for compute resources given some project-specific criteria. So, I made a tool to show me that data in a way that is useful to me. Maybe it will be useful to you, too:

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2 years

For Christmas, I made you 25 days of free programming puzzles. I hope you like them. 💕 🚨 We're less than two hours away from this year's #AdventOfCode 2022! 🚨 PS: How'd you first hear about AoC? I don't exactly advertise.

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1 year

Here's something fun; of the 125,000 #AdventOfCode repositories on GitHub, this is the language breakdown:

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9 years

The next time an interviewer asks you to solve FizzBuzz, impress them by doing it without a programming language.

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2 years

#AdventOfCode just hit 🌟1,000,000🌟 registered users!!!

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4 years

Need a vacation from 2020? Why not go on an adventure and learn programming at the same time? #AdventOfCode 2020 starts December 1st!!

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7 years

- Are you just starting to learn programming? - Trying to learn a new programming language? - Wish you had an advent calendar full of programming puzzles? If you answered yes (or no) to any of these questions, I have something you might like: #AdventOfCode

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5 years

#AdventOfCode is back for 2019 with programming puzzles released every day from December 1st through Christmas! We're a community of over 250,000 people improving programming skills, learning new languages, and rescuing Santa (again). See you soon! 🌟

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2 years

Soon, 50 free programming puzzles will appear over 25 days on #AdventOfCode ! Grab some friends, do your best to figure things out, and don't be afraid to ask for help or skip puzzles. Beginner or expert, set your own goals and learn something new!

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2 years

We just had the 120,000th person solve #AdventOfCode 2022 day 1 part 1! Hello everyone! 🎅🎄🌟💕

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4 years

For #AdventOfCode Day 1, the increase in users/traffic/etc from 2018 to 2019 was +20%. From 2019 to 2020, the increase was +150%.

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2 years

It's almost the last puzzle of #AdventOfCode 2021. By sheer luck, the 10,000,000th star ever will probably be collected in the next 16ish hours. Right now, 350 people have all 348 stars. It's been an honor going on this journey with you. I hope it was fun and interesting! ⭐️❤️

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3 years

We just passed 500,000 users with at least one star across all of #AdventOfCode !!

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6 months

T-24 hours until #AdventOfCode 2023!!!

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7 months

🚨🎄🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨🌟🚨

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2 years

The #AdventOfCode 2022 site is up! If you want to save Christmas from what will no doubt be a preposterous calamity (and maybe learn some programming along the way), then I'll see you December 1st!

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2 years

There are now more people with at least one star in #AdventOfCode 2021 than there are in any past event, and we're not even halfway through. Over 192,000 people! I hope everyone is learning something new!! 🌟

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6 months

As we approach the final puzzle of #AdventOfCode 2023, I am so excited by how many people participated this year. I hope you've taken this opportunity to learn something new! 🌟 Many thanks to the sponsors and the AoC++ supporters, without whom AoC wouldn't be possible. 💕

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3 years

Two hours until #AdventOfCode 2021 begins!!! I hope everyone gets to learn something new. 🌟

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2 years

#AdventOfCode is in a few weeks!! What language(s?!)/IDE will you be using?

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2 years

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6 years

*booming narrator voice* Coming this December only one person can save Christmas through an elaborate series of programming puzzles starring you as: yourself it's *deep brass orchestra note* Advent of Code *slow zoom* December 2018 *fade to black*

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2 years

As of right now, there have been 10,003,142 stars collected since the very first #AdventOfCode !!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅

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6 months

Over 300,000 people have at least one star on #AdventOfCode 2023! 🌟🧑‍🎄🎄

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5 years

#AdventOfCode tips: - Focus on learning; don't worry about the leaderboard. - It's okay to skip puzzles! - It's okay to ask for help! - If you don't know how to solve something, try breaking it into smaller parts. Repeat as necessary. You've got this! 🌟

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4 years

Did you know? There are so many people doing #AdventOfCode this year that if you took all of them and stacked them trying to reach the moon, many of them would be seriously injured.

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2 years

We just passed 200,000 people with at least one star in #AdventOfCode 2021!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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3 years

How it started: How it's going: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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2 years

Did you know? You can just put a "Do #AdventOfCode " ticket right into your sprint! If anyone asks who approved it, tell them it was me. ❤️ If that doesn't work, just rename it to something like "leverage enrichment synergies for improved engineering efficiency" or something. 📈

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2 years

🌟 Seven days until #AdventOfCode 2022! 🌟 Please buckle your IDE and keep your arms and legs inside your programming language(s) of choice until the puzzles come to a complete stop.

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6 years

Trying to learn a programming language, but not sure what to make? Need some CS interview practice? Could your software team use a fun holiday diversion? #AdventOfCode will have a new, free programming puzzle every day of December until Christmas! 🎄

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3 years

Stars collected in each year of #AdventOfCode : 2015: 684,467 🌟 2016: 369,545 🌟 2017: 807,472 🌟 2018: 888,266 🌟 2019: 1,158,496 🌟 2020: 2,222,726 🌟 (so far!)

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8 months

i heard you like puzzles

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3 years

The 2021 #AdventOfCode site is live!! Before we enter the next year of AoC, let's look back. In AoC 2020: ⭐ 177,000 people got a star! 🌟 2,700,000 stars were collected! In all of AoC: ⭐ 380,000 people got a star! 🌟 6,800,000 stars were collected!

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3 years

Only 24 hours in, there were already more people with at least one star in #AdventOfCode 2021 than there were *ever* in 2015, 2016, 2017, or 2018 (and we're rapidly gaining on 2019)!

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3 years

It's official - 10,000 people have gotten all 50 stars in #AdventOfCode 2020!

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3 years

#AdventOfCode 2021 is one month away. What's your plan?

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2 years

#AdventOfCode calendar is now up! What could it be?!? See you in a little over 100 hours to find out!

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4 years

#AdventOfCode 2019 is almost over. I hope everyone had fun and learned something new! See you in a few hours for the final puzzle! I've been waiting all month for this one.

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Eric Wastl

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3 years

My new year's resolution is still 1920x1080.

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5 years

When #AdventOfCode started, 25 people got the first star when it unlocked. 75,000 people got at least one star this year. The final puzzle of 2018 unlocks shortly. Thank you so much to everyone! I would never have imagined that we'd reach this point together. 🌟🎄🌟

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5 years

My primary goal for #AdventOfCode is to help people become better programmers. Know someone that might be interested in programming or is just starting out? Please go through the first puzzle with them! 🧩➡️🌟🌟

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3 years

As we get further into the month, remember that it is okay to sleep and come back to #AdventOfCode puzzles, ask for hints, or even skip them entirely. Difficulty varies based on your own experience and background, and if a puzzle is hard, future puzzles might still be doable!

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3 years

Software development is 20% requirements gathering, 30% planning, 15% design, 40% problem solving, 35% testing, 18% operations, 4% looking up the arguments for `tar`, 33% writing documentation, 60% debugging, 7% installing updates, and 2% actually typing code into an editor.

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3 years

T-5 days until #AdventOfCode ! The calendar is starting to appear... what could it be?

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4 years

As you do #AdventOfCode this year, please remember to be kind to each other and to yourself; everyone is at a different place, and things that are easy for some people are hard for others. Focus on improving yourself, and be supportive of others as they try to do the same. 🌟

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4 years

The #AdventOfCode 2020 site is now up! Check your private leaderboards and maybe grab an early AoC++ badge! (And let me know if it doesn't work; I just changed some of the PayPal stuff.) See you December 1st!! 🌟

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6 months

What language(s?!) will you be practicing with #AdventOfCode this year and why did you pick it?

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3 years

I know this is a busy time for many people, but don't worry! #AdventOfCode puzzles don't disappear. You can do them once you have time!

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1 year

"This page looks better in the app" I mean that really sounds like a you-problem, website.

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1 year

Three days left! How has your #AdventOfCode been? Did you learn anything fun?

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3 years

I'm visiting Gulu-Gulu Cafe in Salem, MA, the place where I invented #AdventOfCode !

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4 years

As you do #AdventOfCode this year - or any year - try to judge your own progress not by how many stars you have, but instead by how many things you learned.

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1 year

Last #AdventOfCode puzzle of the year coming up shortly! 💕🌟🎅⭐️🎄❤️ If you start to feel any withdrawal symptoms, don't forget about all of the puzzles from past years: (people especially seem to like the Intcode puzzles from 2019!)

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3 years

you Do a UDP hear want joke? to

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Eric Wastl

@ericwastl

6 months

Does anyone at @github do #AdventOfCode ? We're getting lots of "429 Too Many Requests" from our OAuth requests, even after switching to an org that uses GitHub Enterprise Cloud. No response from GitHub support after 9 hours. :(

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3 years

1. What language(s?!) will you be using for #AdventOfCode this year? 2. What languages do you recommend other people try? (My answers are: 1. Perl, 2. Lua, Lisp, Rust)

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5 years

Would you rather fight one Linux-size PHP codebase or 100 homepage-size C codebases?

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5 years

Last year, almost 56k people got at least one star in #AdventOfCode . This year, almost 69k already have, and the number grows every day! I'm constantly bewildered at the number of people I get to share this with. Thank you so much!

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4 years

Over 100,000 people have gotten at least one star in #AdventOfCode 2020! Also, there are currently 400 people with all 256 stars from all events!

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3 years

Aaaaaand we just passed #AdventOfCode 2019, too. 🌟

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3 years

Only 24 hours in, there were already more people with at least one star in #AdventOfCode 2021 than there were *ever* in 2015, 2016, 2017, or 2018 (and we're rapidly gaining on 2019)!

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2 years

oh you're a programmer? name every turing machine that halts

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4 years

Well, the first puzzle unlock of #AdventOfCode 2020 went... about as well as could be expected for 2020.

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7 years

When I started #AdventOfCode , I estimated that I'd get about 70 users. Now, we're about to pass 100,000 users! (!!!) You're all incredible. Thank you for joining me on this journey. Please enjoy this year's puzzles! <3

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12 years

Go home, PHP. You're drunk. http://t.co/8DhteXDe ( http://t.co/CybxCt6N)

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There *already* are more people that have gotten the first star of #AdventOfCode day 1 than there were TOTAL users by the end of 2015.

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4 years

🚨🚨🚨 #AdventOfCode 2020 Day 1 unlocks in 24 hours!!!🚨🚨🚨

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3 years

I'm already seeing a lot of unnecessary traffic to the #AdventOfCode servers. Please limit private leaderboard requests to once per 15 minutes. Please don't run scripts that scrape the entire site with a burst of requests. IP addresses that flood the servers will be blocked.

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3 years

a gender reveal party might be the least efficient way to transmit a single bit of information

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4 years

Want to get into programming (or know someone that does), but don't know what to work on? #AdventOfCode will have free, small puzzles with cute stories daily throughout December!

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5 years

🚨🚨 #AdventOfCode INCOMING 🚨🚨

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2 years

Someone went through every #AdventOfCode puzzle and categorized them by CS topic:

From the adventofcode community on Reddit: 350 Stars: A Categorization and Mega-Guide

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5 years

December is only a few days away!! Have you picked the language(s?!) you'll be using for #AdventOfCode ?

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2 years

If you want to run an #AdventOfCode event for your employees (and you should!), you should run it like my employer, @TCGplayer , does: Stars can be exchanged for prizes. Due in January. Bonus points for newbies or new languages. Speed is irrelevant.

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7 months

🌟 #AdventOfCode 2023 sponsorship is now open! 🌟 If your organization is interested in becoming a sponsor, please email sponsorship at [the Advent of Code domain name].

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4 years

As of right now, 250,000 #AdventOfCode users have gotten at least one star!!! 🌟🌟🌟

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3 years

Everyone always talks about serverless. How long until we get clientless?

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2 years

Happy new year! Did you know there are now enough #AdventOfCode puzzles that you could get a star (almost) every day this year? (days - stars = 15)

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4 years

Okay, I think we're done with #AdventOfCode infrastructure changes for the night. Wasn't expecting so many people, but here we are!

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2 years

People are making lots of cool visualizations from today's #AdventOfCode puzzle. Please do! But, if your visualization contains flashing lights, please put an epilepsy warning before your link, and share in a way that doesn't autoplay the animation. ❤️

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2 years

The new #AdventOfCode shirts came out pretty well this year!

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4 years

Stuck inside? Learn a new language! #AdventOfCode has hundreds of free programming puzzles that start easy and get difficult:

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3 years

First batch of new #AdventOfCode shirts just shipped!

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7 years

Save the date! - December 1st - December 2nd - Decem... You know what, just save most of December. #AdventOfCode 2017

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4 years

🚨 GitHub has dark mode now 🚨 this is not a drill 🚨

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4 years

T-2 days until #AdventOfCode 2020!

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2 years

Anyone need a new shirt or a mug or a sticker or a notebook or a hoodie or something? #AdventOfCode

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3 years

There are now 440 people with all 300 stars across all of #AdventOfCode .

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2 years

Curious what it takes to make and run #AdventOfCode every year? Here's a peek behind the scenes:

Advent of Code: Behind the Scenes

A Google TechTalk, 2021/2/26, presented by Eric Wastl.ABSTRACT: Advent of Code is a 25-day programming contest that runs every year in December, from the 1st...

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3 years

You know what will probably be useful during this #AdventOfCode ? A submarine!

Advent of Code

Physical Advent of Code objects!

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3 years

#AdventOfCode withdrawal? Go play every game by Zachtronics. Especially Exapunks.

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6 years

Well, we finally made it. Thank you for participating in #AdventOfCode 2017!

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3 years

Over 150,000 people have completed at least one #AdventOfCode puzzle this year! That's more than the population of Pasadena - yes, any of them.

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The JS ecosystem is so weird. "How do you make a progress bar?" Everyone, apparently: Well first you download 15gb of node modules so you can transpile the latest jqueryreactvue.js and then leftpad-webpack the npm babel [...six more hours of description...] Nobody: <progress/>

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4 years

For today's #AdventOfCode puzzle, make sure your browser doesn't auto-"translate" your input into another language.

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6 years

We just passed the number of #AdventOfCode 2017 users that got at least one star. It's only day 7. Hello everyone!

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2 years

If you haven't checked them out, the #AdventOfCode sponsors often put together their own bonus puzzles for everyone to do! Definitely check them out if you haven't yet: (Many of them are also hiring!)

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a usb c flash drive that rotates your photos 180 degrees depending on which way you plug it in

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