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jeroenheijmanson Unofficial Advent of Code 2025 Survey Results (with "Emotions" Added)

Released the results of my yearly (highly unscientific :D) Advent of Code survey, roughly 2300 folks answered questions this year about Language/IDE/OS usage, reasons for participating, and (new in 2025) how strongly the primary emotions pop up while puzzling.

You can also slice these "Emotion" charts across Language, IDE, and OS to compare subgroups. These slices are persisted in the URL so you can share your favorite "comparison" with others.

There's a corresponding Reddit thread if you like to check it out: https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/1plqm0v/2025_...

Hope you'll enjoy these stats!

jeroenheijmanson Conway's Game of Life, in checkboxes for some reason

That's cool but now do it with only html+css!

(jk this is already pretty cool! :D)

jeroenheijmanson Game Development Sucks; Developing Games Rocks

I'm a web developer by trade, and did an eight week Game Development project during a sabbatical. This devlog post describes my personal opinion and sentiment about the differences between the two areas of development, and I'm curious to see if HN readers can relate or have different experiences.

jeroenheijmanson Unofficial Advent of Code 2022 Survey Results

Published the 2022 #AdventOfCode Survey results, same location as last year but with fresh data for 2022.

Main announcement and context can be found on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/ztct0p/unoffi...

Hope you enjoy these stats!

jeroenheijmanson Advent of Code Surveys: Results

That's absolutely amazing!!

jeroenheijmanson Advent of Code Surveys: Results

Excel+Sheets taken together even >1.2% :-)

And 3 respondents answered they use their own custom language :O

jeroenheijmanson Advent of Code Surveys: Results

Ooh <3 to whomever posted my AoC pet project here :-)

Tip: the datatable for "Reasons to participate" contains some of the most heartwarming stuff you'll read all day.

Happy holidays y'all!

jeroenheijmanson Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

TIL about the AGPL license, thx for the tip.

jeroenheijmanson Show HN: Advent of Code suvey results dashboard

Crafted my yearly survey results dashboard for Advent of Code and shared it on Reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/kj53l1/unoffi... - curious to hear your suggestions and feedback so I can improve it next year!

jeroenheijmanson Advent of Code 2018

The 2017 edition was the first time I participated, and I severely underestimated how much fun it would be! Am participating (and to a much lesser degree competing) again this year :D

jeroenheijmanson My account is sending spam emails

Perhaps it's a browser extension/plugin that got hacked?

jeroenheijmanson Slack (sort of) supports emoji – come join us at the [pizza] Slack

Oh it also doesn't work in comments :')

jeroenheijmanson Slack (sort of) supports emoji – come join us at the [pizza] Slack

Shame, the "" (pizza emoji) won't work in HN titles. (Makes sense though...)