With 2021 done, wanted to go back and put together a gist list of the input parsing, using standard crate Rust, for future reference

With moving my site off of Wordpress, I landed on Jekyll, but wanted to add an RSS feed option. Here is a simple way, without plugins. One of its example Generator plugins for Jekyll is their jekyll-feed plugin, used as a reference for those creating similar style file generation. Since I am Gemfile less currently, I really didnt want to add another configuration item, and it dawned on me…just build the RSS feed using templates and liquid!

Day 9 done…thought it might be fun to visualize today’s solution (breadth-first search within a map space) with some holiday-themed 16 color ANSI console art! Happy coding!

Advent of Code 2021 begins today! Goal for this year is to learn Rust-lang, and complete every challenge the same day released. Follow over on Github

Come see my inaugural presentation at the Lexington PASS User Group meeting, Tuesday, Nov 13th, at 6:30 PM at the Blue Stallion Brewing Co.