The elves were keen to have an attractive Christmas tree this year. As usual, they wanted to build it with raku, their favourite programming language. They dug back into the archives of Christmas past and came up with a pretty good way to make a tree – Santa and the Magic Tree. But honestly theyContinue reading “Day 3 – Merry Cromas”
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Day 2 – WAT LLM coding tool do you want for Christmas?
Programming for a living used to be an active conversation between yourself, the computer, and your colleagues. This Christmas, a new guest is joining the programming party: the LLM. Large Language Models (LLMs) can talk a lot and, just like your eccentric uncle at Christmas, occasionally blurt out something bonkers. But do we want toContinue reading “Day 2 – WAT LLM coding tool do you want for Christmas?”
Day 1 – Rendering down for Christmas
Last Christmas we got a new specification for RakuDoc, and this Christmas we have a generic rendering engine for RakuDoc V2. “So what?” some may say. “So WHAT !! ?? !!” shouts an inner demon of mine, having struggled for a year to get all the new stuff working, and wasting weeks on getting escapingContinue reading “Day 1 – Rendering down for Christmas”
The 2023 Raku Advent Posts
(in chronological order, with comment references)
Day 25 – Raku 2023 Review
How time flies. Yet another year has flown by. A year of many ups and a few downs. Rakudo saw about 2000 commits this year, up about 30% from the year before. There were some bug fixes and performance improvements, which you would normally not notice. Most of the work has been done on RakuASTContinue reading “Day 25 – Raku 2023 Review”
Day 24 – Streamlining AI vision workflows
In this document we provide examples of easy to specify computational workflows that utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology for understanding and interpreting visual data. I.e. using “AI vision.”
Day 23 – Optimizing Raku programs with Zig
The wind blows snow from across the glowing windows of Santa’s front office, revealing a lone elf sitting in front of a computer. She looks despondent, head in hands, palms rubbing up against eyes, mouth yawning… Tikka has been working double shifts to finish the new package address verification mechanism. There have been some unfortunateContinue reading “Day 23 – Optimizing Raku programs with Zig”
Day 22 – The Magic Of hyper
After reading Santa’s horrible code, Lizzybel thought it might be time to teach the elves (and maybe Santa) a little bit about hypering and racing in the Raku Programming Language. So they checked with all the elves that were in their latest presentation, to see if they would be interested in that. ”Sure“, one of themContinue reading “Day 22 – The Magic Of hyper”
Day 21 – Using DALL-E models in Raku
In this blog post we proclaim recent creation and updates of several Raku packages that facilitate the utilization of the OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 model.
Day 20 – Craggy Christmas Chronicles
Shortly before take off, Rudolph (who wanted to get his facts 100% right) asked his friend ChattyGPT “what are the crucial factors for a successful Sleigh ride?” Certainly, said Chatty! Here are three calculations for Santa: How could Rudi check his numbers in time? Calculator using RAku Grammars (CRAG) Then he remembered that Raku, hisContinue reading “Day 20 – Craggy Christmas Chronicles”
Raku Advent Calendar 