I've been debating for the past week whether to go back and finish up the last few days of Advent of Code 2025. But, I haven't really been feeling it, and now December and (2025) is done. So in the spirit of a #chill #AdventOfCode, I think I'm done for now. See ya in a year, AoC!

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The cottage ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Yes I waited till all 6 were out and I was back home from holiday travel and binged them in 2 days and it was totally worth it.

I'm not nearly masochistic enough to attempts Advent Of Code with SQL (though some ppl certainly are...) - but this... this I can do. If you want some SQL puzzles disguised as a Christmas mystery, check out dbquacks! dbquacks.com/challenges?s...

Whelp, once again for #AdventOfCode my solution for part 2 works for the test case but is far too inefficient and crashes the kernel. Day 9 part 1 was ridiculously easy, because you could cheat with math, so I guess it makes sense part 2 is difficult. Ah well. ⭐ #chill github.com/jenna-jordan...

Whelp, #AdventOfCode is definitely getting harder each day. For Day 8, I was only able to solve part 1 for the test case - my answer was wrong for my actual input though. I'm about ready to tear out my hair so I'm stopping for now. github.com/jenna-jordan...

From the author of “How Big Things Get Done”: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Day 7 #AdventOfCode prompt is giving me the giggles: Naturally the first thing you do upon seeing a teleportation experiment is step into the teleporter Magic smoke Error code 0H-N0 Christmas-tree shaped tachyon manifolds What's coming next in part 2? Maybe a sonic screwdriver can help...

Woooo I'm back in the 2-star club! Part 2 was kinda a pain in the butt to figure out how to parse the input correctly, but I'm quite happy with my solution github.com/jenna-jordan... ⭐⭐ #chill #AdventOfCode

I just completed "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/6

A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.” ~Stephen Crane

I thought day 5 was seeming a bit too easy... my part 2 answer was wrong and I'm not immediately sure what to do to fix it. So, I'm going to bed, maybe I'll figure it out another day. github.com/jenna-jordan... ⭐ #chill #AdventOfCode

I learned in past years that if your input needs to be a grid, using numpy will make your life much easier. I know this is possible to solve with just base python, but why not refresh myself on some numpy basics and also save myself the headache? github.com/jenna-jordan... ⭐⭐ #chill #AdventOfCode

I just completed "Printing Department" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/4

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

Day 3 in the books! Part 1 was very easy, and part 2 was an interesting generalization, but got a bit tricky to do the list indexing properly. The test cases were definitely useful here in making sure I wrote my code correctly. My solution: github.com/jenna-jordan... ⭐⭐ #chill #AdventOfCode

I just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/3

Finally cancelled spotify, and used soundiiz to transfer all of my playlists. Gonna try out qobuz now!

Wooooooo 2 stars for me today! Part 2 was way easier for Day 2 than Day 1... in fact I initially misread Part 1 thinking it was asking for what Part 2 ended up asking for. Starting earlier in the evening (like well before midnight) definitely helped as well 😅 ⭐⭐ #chill #AdventOfCode

I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/2

Only 1 star for AoC Day 1 for now... I did something wrong in solving part 2 but I'll figure it out later. It's past my bedtime, time to go to sleep! 💤 Day 1 code: github.com/jenna-jordan... ⭐ #chill #AdventOfCode

Starting this year, I'm updating my #AdventOfCode repo to use mise and uv for managing my environment. Super minimal setup to get started after installing mise: mise.jdx.dev/getting-star... Create the mise.toml file at project root: [tools] python = "3.13" uv = "latest" Then run: mise install

Are you a data human who has always been a little intimidated by #AdventofCode? Come to the #DataScienceLab on Dec 2nd where @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social will give us a super friendly hands-on intro. Very casual, lurk friendly. Register for the event series @ pos.it/dslab #databs #rstats #pydata

Tomorrow is the first day of December.... which means it is also the first day of our favorite solving-puzzles-with-code adventure game! Many people like to get super competitive with #AdventOfCode - chasing the leaderboard, starting right at 12am ET to race the clock, prizing the speediest code...

This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.

Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Wrote a little shell script, as a treat. Did I save time by not creating many files by hand? Probably. Was it more fun than creating many files by hand? Definitely.

Crafting update: I finally finished my first shawl I made for me in time to wear it to the ren fair, and then also wore it out for my b-day dinner. And I got my first taste of glass blowing, because my b-day gift to me was a hot shop class where I “helped” make my own glass pumpkin.

Excellent advice for job seekers from Abigail Haddad, succinctly summed up by an amazing tl;dr title: Make Things, Tell People presentofcoding.substack.com/p/make-thing...

The recording for my #dbt Coalesce talk is now available! Here is the link: youtu.be/yKScVw4gVfo?...

not me cringing over a newly discovered verbal tic while listening to the recording of my coalesce talk

I've got a question for the #medlibs... I'm currently getting a crash course in medical claims data courtesy of Out of Pocket, and in learning about this claims process - the shape of the data via the forms, the rules that need to followed between different code systems - I'm left with the thought

We got some Northern Lights in WNC tonight!

Yesterday it was in the 60s, and I read a book at a coffee shop on the river. Today it was on the 20s, and Bella got to frolic in the snow. Find joy in the weather of the day, I guess?

I usually avoid taking home swag from conferences but… I got to play the claw machine game to win this @motherduck.com duck at Coalesce and I knew exactly who would appreciate me bringing home stuffies.

Nothing quite like a fall hike in the blue ridge mountains at peak leaf color

Dystopian fiction is supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual. Dystopian fiction is supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual. Dystopian fiction is supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual!

Yay, it’s finally published! I got to give some early feedback for this blog post, and I’m very curious to see what the #datalibs and #civictech community think about using this pattern to archive and serve public data.

We’ve arrived back home safe and sound. The post-conference come-down has begun as my natural introvert self once again returns to the fore and my conference-exclusive extrovert self pulls an Irish goodbye… and as always my introvert self is left mortified and terrified of the extrovert self. Halp

I completely forgot to take pictures and live post my way through Coalesce yesterday, but this morning I caught @data.potato.engineer and @bennstancil.bsky.social’s talks, which were both purely excellent

Who writes a 10k-word blog post to prep for a 30-minute talk? I do, apparently. Who wants to read it? 😅 jennajordan.me/blog/data-me...

First Coalesce session is…. On Fusion, of course! @simon.podhajsky.net how does it feel to be meme famous?

My girl @faithebear.bsky.social closing out the Coalesce opening keynote with a wowzer “one more thing”… dbt Agents!

Not exactly the news I was hoping for on my flight to Coalesce…. www.reuters.com/business/a16...

Today was entirely a Coalesce prep day. I started the day going to the hair salon, so I can have purple colored ends, and I was frantically working on my slides as the stylist coated on the bleach and then the color. Then I met with my track lead, who was very forgiving of my unfinished slides

I’m getting a good morning cackle over the fact that the folks liking this post are also known for writing absurdly long (and thoroughly excellent!) blog posts. Nice to be in good company!

Good lord I really don't know how to write a short blog post

A few months ago I published an absurdly long blog post about the librarian's reference interview for data teams. As of today, there is an abridged version available - it's only half as long, with no tangents! dataintelligenceplatform.substack.com/p/the-librar...