A repo containing all my advent of code solutions; built in Clerk.
Those unfamiliar should read here but in short it’s an annual programming puzzle competition focused around the Advent.
For anyone that’s used Clerk before, the answer should be obvious; but otherwise Clerk is a notebook-style live programming environment for Clojure that also renders comments in Markdown.
Without needing extra files (other than 1 index page) and adding in some comments, I can export my namespaces as HTML pages with examples; and even use custom HTML viewers.
Live is truly live, within milliseconds of me saving my namespace the running
output (called by bb serve) updates with the computed result. Long-running
answers happen during evaluation time but as soon as that’s done the page
updates. The instant feedback in this kind of environment is vital.
Each namespace has a call that looks like
(clerk/html (u/load-problem "10" "2022"))Which attempts to get the page for the problem (with the user’s token; so that
part 2 can be acquired) and using a custom user-agent so that Eric knows where
this is coming from (in this case it’s just a link to this repo). The page is
then parsed and the article tags are pulled; which contain both parts.
clerk/html can then simply render the HTML strings and with some CSS overriding;
the problems look almost identical.
- Advent of Clerk of which this is based on