<div dir="ltr"><h2 class="entry-title" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:30px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:300;line-height:1.2em"><a href="https://www.mug.org/2026/03/mug-meeting-tuesday-mar-10-2026-advent-of-code/" rel="bookmark" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(30,115,190)">MUG Meeting – Tuesday, Mar 10, 2026 – Advent of Code</a></h2><div class="entry-meta" style="border:0px;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:14.45px;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(89,89,89)"><span class="gmail-posted-on" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px">March 3, 2026</span> <span class="gmail-byline" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;display:inline">by <span class="gmail-author gmail-vcard" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><a class="gmail-url gmail-fn gmail-n" href="https://www.mug.org/author/jmcquillan/" title="View all posts by jmcquillan" rel="author" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(89,89,89)"><span class="gmail-author-name" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px">jmcquillan</span></a></span></span></div><div class="entry-content" style="border:0px;margin:2em 0px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:17px"><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">Next Meeting – Tuesday, March 10th, 2026, 6:30pm EST.<br></p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">This month is the MUG Advent of Code presentation.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">We’ve done this a couple of times in the past.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">There’s a programming website called <span style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:700">Advent of Code</span>: <a href="https://adventofcode.com/" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(30,115,190)">https://adventofcode.com</a>.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">It’s an Advent calendar of 12 small programming puzzles for a variety of skill<br>sets and levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">You can see the first puzzle at <a href="https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/1" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(30,115,190)">https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/1</a>.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">We need some volunteers to help us solve the day-1 puzzle in whatever language you’d like.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">Last year we saw solutions using C++, Lua, Pandas, Racket, Rust, Perl, vim9script, Awk, SQL, Zig, Python and Swift.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">Lets see if we can do it again this year.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">We only need you to solve the first puzzle, parts A and B.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">We should be able to get through each language in 5-15 minutes. Hopefully that’ll<br>allow enough time to explain how the solution works.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">We’ve created a Github repo so we can collaborate and share: <a href="https://github.com/MichiganUnixUserGroup/MUG-2026-03-10-Advent-of-Code" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(30,115,190)">MUG-2026-03-10-Advent-of-Code</a>.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">If you’d like to volunteer, clone the repo or join us at the meeting and show us how you’ve solved the puzzle using your favorite language.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px">Also, as we’ve been doing the last several months, we’ll be doing a short presentation on a Unix/Linux topic. This month it’ll be the <span style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:700">lsof</span> command which is used for listing open files (and sockets and other things). This will be a great opportunity to learn about lsof and if you already use it, you can share what you know about it.</p></div></div>