Advent of Code Collaborative Leaderboard
This year, I did Advent of Code with Virtual Coffee!
The whole experience was super fun, and I built some stuff along the way, which made it even more fun and special.
Collaborative Leaderboard
I created a slackbot that posted a message with a collaborative leaderboard headlined with a link to the problem of the day:
It would update throughout the day when someone got a star. It served as a great place to centralize discussion for that day’s problem.
Star Alerts
When you got a star, it would send an alert to that thread saying which part you solved:
I found the alerts super satisfying, motivating, and fun!
Burnup Chart
After Advent of Code ended, I created a burnup chart to track progress of everyone and recent stars:
Shout out to Arthur Doler for giving me the idea to create the burnup chart (he did it first and I totally just copied him).
Special Thanks
I want to give a special shout out the #dev-code-challenges channel in Virtual
Coffee, and in particular Arthur Doler and Ray
Deck. Doing Advent of Code with them absolutely pushed me
further than I would have gone alone, and what I thought I was capable
of.
🥳 pic.twitter.com/n5vATLWoe3
— Edward Banner (@EdwardBanner) January 16, 2025
Looking forward to next year! 🥳