_December 17, 2025 - Santa’s Lost Gift Dispatcher
==> Loading Fractured Memory <==
On the 17th day, your fractured memory is bringing you right next to Santa's desk! And he is fuming! He is trying to figure out his code for the gift dispatcher.
He added tentative comments but the code looks obfuscated, recovered from decompiled code.
You need to help him solve that riddle.
He left you a business note to understand what the code was trying to do.
Today, it's not strictly speaking a normal refactoring.
You are to work with bad obfuscated code and try to restore some understanding from it.
Hint: Use AI as a starting point and work your way from here.
I keep a list of how many units I have of each gift in the workshop, and a list of children with their wishlists (ordered by preference).
When I run the dispatcher, I tell it the maximum number of gifts per child.
It should then assign gifts to children in the order they were registered, trying wishlist items first and otherwise using any remaining stock, and return a list of which child received which gift.
That’s all Santa is sure about. Everything else is in decompiled code.
For the exploration of the fractured memories, since they are not your own memories We will go to /exercises and the dayNN
You can then pick the stack you want to use as your main stack.
exercises/day17/<your-stack>/
This is your playground.
On Discord, you can share:
- How did you proceed with the first version of the code?
- Which AI did you use to help you and what kind of prompt?
If you want your work to be public, add your file to:
community/solutions/dayNN/by copying the template:
community/solutions/TEMPLATE-[replace_with_your_name].md- then open a pull request.
In journey/your-name.md, write a short entry for today:
- How did you succeed in getting knowledge from such a bad code?
- How could you apply that in your daily life?
Let's rebuild the dispatcher together. 🎅📦