Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles (opens in new tab)

I'm working with some data that has a large number of date formats within a single document - day seconds, week seconds, ISO8601, ticks, some with hardcoded offsets and others with different datums ... it would be quite funny I think to throw in a new column in the Hebrew calendar, just to join the party, so to speak.

dwimmer's animated text art elevates everything about Hanukkah of Data! I wrote about how it works, here: https://evalapply.org/posts/animate-text-art-javascript/

I know it's a week old, but I just finished and had a lot of fun! Thank you! I'm going to attempt the speed run after my toddler goes to sleep.

The ASCII candle is really charming, especially when lit. Looking forward to exploring this further. Great work!

Thanks for putting this together, it's very creative.

Do you mind if I post videos of solving this to my youtube channel (that has absolutely no viewers)

This was pretty fun! Sometimes the stories were a bit harder to parse than others, but honestly, that's pretty reflective of what it's like being a technical person communicating with non-technical people.

Hope to see this again next year!

I love the story! Excited for the next challenge!

Fun "crossover" observation (ROT13; spoiler for first night)

Gur fheanzr bs gur crefba jub vf gur nafjre gb #1 yvgrenyyl zrnaf 'sve gerr' (nf ersreraprq va n snzbhf Puevfgznf fbat).

if anyone is stuck, here are the solutions:

https://hanukkah.bluebird.sh/js/5784/solutions.js

Congrats Saul! Hope it’s ok to solve this during Christmas, because of vacation ;-)

Solved it all last year, looking forward to finishing this year’a puzzles!

Pretty cool. Got the first two. Now I have to wait for the next one...

The phone number input requires dashes, which are entirely optional in general for communicating telephone numbers (dashes and parens only serve as decoration for readability these days).

Thanks for this, will give it a try :)

why can i only do the first 2 puzzles? it says i have to wait 17hrs. is it like a christmas countdown?

Yay, it’s back!

im keen but not sure how to get started