Sure you can trust a computer, but why do that when you have progress bars?

Have you ever ran a script that needs to do I/O on several hundred files? You want to know wether it’s gonna be done now or go grab a cup of coffee?

So what do you do? Make some print statements at the end of the loop with something like “I"M DONE WITH FILE X?” What is this, 2010?

Better late than never!

I’ve never done Advent of Code, which is a series of Christmas themed programming challenges. I’m always looking for ways to strengthen my Python so time to join the game. A new puzzle is released every day and I’m 12 days behind so let’s get started!

The Chief Historian is missing!

He hasn’t been seen in months and we need to find him before the big day when the sleigh goes off.