This document explores the properties and relationships of the integer 2026. It is classified as a semiprime and a happy number, with 365 serving as one of its primitive roots. While 2026 may not stand out significantly in number theory, it offers a great opportunity to create elaborate visualizations that highlight some interesting aspects of the number.
Monthly Archives: December 2025
Day 21 – A Terminal’s Tale
Today’s story is about my naiveness and terminals. The original task is simple. Show the output of some program in a sub frame of a TUI application. (TUI == Text User Interface, i.e. apps like tmux, vim, k9s)For those that wonder, there is a yet to be finished TUI debugger application I’m working on, theContinue reading “Day 21 – A Terminal’s Tale”
Day 20 – We’re Walking On The Air
…continuing from Day 8 – HARC The Herald Angels Sing … We left Rudi hanging by his hooves on Day 8. He had quickly whipped up his first website, but felt that more could be done to add some Christmas Decorations. A snowman perhaps? His mind wandered to the iconic Snowman tale by Raymond Briggs andContinue reading “Day 20 – We’re Walking On The Air”
Day 19 – Welcome to the Megadungeon
Welcome, weary traveler. It is known that you come bearing earnest questions and we congratulate you on managing to arrive here, on this precipice of doom. Not a brutal doom, nor even a fearful doom, but a doom as in a fate open to you. See, your arrival here stands foretold. In fact, we builtContinue reading “Day 19 – Welcome to the Megadungeon”
Day 18 – Hallo, Wêreld!
by habere-et-dispertire The first elf language is the sharing of emotions. Next comes their mother tongue. When elves start speaking their first programming language, then they are already onto their third language! Santa imagines raku draws inspiration from many principles of Unix philosophy In particular, localization of raku plays into the robustness principle. When writingContinue reading “Day 18 – Hallo, Wêreld!”
Day 17 – An issue with evaluation
Lizzybel was walking the corridors of North Pole Central when Steve, the Physics Elf, came up to her. “Have you seen my issue on this very nice module of yours?”, he asked. “Oof, I guess I must have missed that, sorry!”, said Lizzybel, while thinking to herself “I really should look more at my modulesContinue reading “Day 17 – An issue with evaluation”
Day 16 – Melian and the Helpers of Evergreen
by Sawyer X Operation Evergreen began quietly that winter. Santa had announced it as a workshop-wide initiative to improve the speed and efficiency of analytics across every team (logs, metrics, scheduling, routing, and storage). The elves who maintained the Workshop’s growing systems found themselves gathered around long benches, examining slow queries, performance charts, and theContinue reading “Day 16 – Melian and the Helpers of Evergreen”
Day 15 – An expression language for Vixen
#raku-beginners: korvo: Hi! I’m trying out Raku in stead of META II for a toy compiler. (5 minutes later) korvo: I’m merely trying to compile a little expression language because my angle of repose has slightly increased, and multiple folks have recommended Raku for parsing and lightweight compilers. (20 minutes later) korvo: [T]hanks for aContinue reading “Day 15 – An expression language for Vixen”
Day 14 – Taming Concurrency
Hello everyone and a merry advent time! Today I’d like to show case a neat little mechanism that allows building concurrent applications without having to worry about the concurrency much. I’ve built this tool as part of the (yet to be released) Rakudo CI Bot. That’s a middle man that watches GitHub for things toContinue reading “Day 14 – Taming Concurrency”
Day 13 – Christmas Crunching Part II
Christmas is nearly on us, 10 shopping days to go. Things at the pole were gathering pace, with so much left to do. Rudolph (him again) was pacing up and down, mashing his cheroot. He cast his mind back to the App::Crag calcs he had done last time – sure all the distances, times andContinue reading “Day 13 – Christmas Crunching Part II”
Raku Advent Calendar 