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Advent of Code 2023 wrap up

Advent of Code
R
Reflections on participating in this seasonal coding challenge.
Dec 30, 2023
Ella Kaye

An ASCII art image of a menorah. The shamash and first candle are lit. There's an unlit candle for the second night. The remaining candle holders are empty.

Hanukkah of Data, 5784

Hanukkah of Data
R
tidyverse
Hanukkah of Data is a fun and delightful coding challenge that requires an investigative mindset. Here are my solutions and reflections on the puzzles and overall experience.
Dec 7, 2023
Ella Kaye

aochelpers hex sticker, with a bright green outline and a dark background. The hex is filled with a white ASCII art star, with the word aochelpers in bright green in the middle.

An Advent of Code website, website template and package

Advent of Code
R
package development
Quarto
I made project/website to work through then share my Advent of Code solutions, with R functions to ease the process, and I was so pleased with it that I made them into a template and package so others can use them too!
Nov 29, 2023
Ella Kaye

A square logo made from Ella Kaye's name - first name on top of last name in dark gray capital letters, separated by a horizontal bright pink line, on a very light grey background

Creating and styling an animated logo for a Quarto site with CSS

Quarto
CSS
Sass
Web development
How and why I created an animated logo for this site, using CSS
Apr 11, 2023
Ella Kaye

The quarto logo, a blue circle divided into quadrants followed by the word 'quarto'

Welcome to my Quarto website!

Quarto
distilltools
Resources I found inspiring and useful when building my new site, plus notes on my customisations
Dec 11, 2022
Ella Kaye

A swatch of five colours, a pink, orange, green, blue and purple, all quite bright, but still all with a contrast ratio of 4.5:1 or better against white.

Custom syntax highlighting for {distill} part 2

Creating the palette
distill
colour
accessibility
R
How to create an appealing and accessible colour palette for a syntax highlighting scheme
May 26, 2021
Ella Kaye

Custom syntax highlighting for {distill} part 1

Modifying the default theme
distill
distilltools
colour
accessibility
R
A guide to modifying the default {distill} syntax highlighting theme, including colour choice considerations, and its implementation in {distilltools}
May 25, 2021
Ella Kaye

A hexagon with a dark blue border and a mid-blue fill. Inside, a stylised white drop of water, with the word distill underneath, in white.

Welcome to my {distill} website!

distill
distilltools
package development
R
Resources and sites I found inspiring when building my new site, and a sneak-peek at {distilltools}, an exciting new project for {distill} users
May 8, 2021
Ella Kaye

Advent of Code 2020

R
Advent of Code
My attempts at Advent of Code, 2020
Dec 9, 2020
Ella Kaye

A hexagon with a bright pink outline. Inside it, the letters E, M and K in the same bright pink, on a white background

n_letter_words and a personal (publicly available) package

R
package development
How I created a handy function and a personal package
Jun 17, 2017
Ella Kaye
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