Bowling
How Bowling Kicked Off My Mid-Life Crisis
Wanting a return to bowling leads to a mid-life crisis.
Bowling
Thoughts on PBA50 String Pins at Lehigh Lanes
Some thoughts on string pin bowling and the PBA50
Weekly Challenge
“Missing Members”: The Live Blog
This week’s weekly challenge causes me to trip over an issue I saw in last week’s Perl Weekly newsletter. Great timing!
Weekly Challenge
An Attempt to Simplify Fails, But Works
Two relatively easy challenges result in simple responses that still take up too much space.
Weekly Challenge
“Same String” Part Deux: Now In Javascript and Python
Having done the challenge in Perl and Elixir, the author dives head long into Python and Javascript to find further differences and language craziness.
Weekly Challenge
“Same String”: Let’s Functionalize the #$%@# Out of This One
I wrote a Perl script that feels so functional that it was super simple to rewrite it even better in Elixir.
Weekly Challenge
Recursive Running Sum Redux – In Elixir! 🏃♂️
Elixir makes for the cleanest and best solution to the Running Sum problem. But should I go with two parameters or three?
Weekly Challenge
Persistence Sort, In Which I Give Up and Use a Global 🌎
An attempt to write a persistence sort ends in a global variable, but also recursion! You take the good with the bad…
Weekly Challenge
Running Sum, or “I ♥️ Recursion”
In which the author starts The Weekly Challenge with a simple recursive algorithm to provide a running sum of an array. And then goes overboard…
Perl
Hypocrisy and Typed Languages: A Perl-ish Rant
Do people really want typed languages? And, hey, look who was out front on this one!