Perl Weekly - all the articles published by Ryan Thompson

2019.12.19 in #439 Reverse Polish Notation
Ryan blogging first time for the weekly challenge. Must Checkout.
2019.12.23 in #440 Zip6
Ryan only recently started blogging about his solutions. The quality of his blog is unmatchable.
2020.01.03 in #441 Attractive Numbers
Ryan introduced Wilson's Theorem whilst solving Attractive numbers.
2020.01.03 in #441 Leonardo Numbers
Ryan used Memoization to speed up the Leonardo number generation.
2020.01.08 in #442 Octal Representation
Ryan has become very popular with his high quality contributions. Highly Recommended.
2020.01.08 in #442 Balanced Parentheses
Ryan blog is always full of in-depth analysis of weekly task.
2020.01.19 in #443 Olympic Rings
Ryan's came up with beautiful solutions. Please do checkout.
2020.01.19 in #443 Self-descriptive Numbers
Ryan's blogging skill is unbeatable. Beautifully organised content. Highly recommended.
2020.01.26 in #444 Only 100, please
2020.01.26 in #444 Make it $200
2020.01.27 in #444 Perl Review - Perl Weekly Challenge - 043
Perl Solutions Review by Mohammad Anwar.
2020.02.01 in #445 Quine
Ryan shared cheaty and more cheaty solution. It is really impressive.
2020.02.01 in #445 Square Secret Code
Ryan blog is really fun and plenty to learn from. Highly Recommended.
2020.02.06 in #446 PWC 046 › Cryptic Message
Ryan used Frequency Analysis to solve the Cryptic Message.
2020.02.06 in #446 PWC 046 › Is the Room Open? (500 Doors)
Ryan created terminal-base visualiser to deal with room task. Highly Recommended.
2020.02.08 in #446 Perl Review - Perl Weekly Challenge - 045
Perl Solutions Review by Ryan Thompson.
2020.02.08 in #446 Raku Review - Perl Weekly Challenge - 045
Raku Solutions Review by Ryan Thompson.
2020.02.22 in #448 PWC 048 › Survivor (Josepheus problem)
Ryan made good use Circular Linked List to solve the task. Must Read.
2020.02.22 in #448 PWC 048 › Palindrome Dates (mm/dd/yyyy)
Ryan pointed out February 2, 2020 was a Palindromic date irrespective of data format. Must Read
2020.02.23 in #448 Perl Review - Perl Weekly Challenge - 047
Perl Solutions Review by Ryan Thompson.
2020.02.23 in #448 Raku Review - Perl Weekly Challenge - 047
Raku Solutions Review by Ryan Thompson.
2020.03.01 in #449 Perl Review - Perl Weekly Challenge - 048
Perl Solutions Review by Ryan Thompson.
2020.03.01 in #449 Raku Review - Perl Weekly Challenge - 048
Raku Solutions Review by Ryan Thompson.
2020.03.01 in #449 PWC 049 › LRU Cache
Ryan solved the LRU cached using doubly-linked list.
2020.03.01 in #449 PWC 049 › Smallest multiple containing only 1 and 0
Ryan used Breadth-First Search (BFS) to solve the smallest multiple task.
2020.03.20 in #452 Perl Review - Perl Weekly Challenge - 050
Perl Solutions Review by Ryan Thompson.
2020.03.22 in #452 PWC 052 › Stepping Numbers
Ryan shared some very interesting facts about the task. Please checkout.
2020.03.22 in #452 PWC 052 › Lucky Winner
Ryan took the challenge to another level. Must Read.
2020.03.24 in #453 Perl Review - Perl Weekly Challenge - 051
Perl Solutions Review by Ryan Thompson.
2020.03.29 in #453 PWC 053 › Matrix Rotation
Ryan shared too many Raku features in one blog. I have yet to get my head around to every features.
2020.03.29 in #453 PWC 053 › Vowel Strings
Ryan shared two different approached i.e. Loop and Iterator to deal with Vowel String task.
2020.03.31 in #454 Perl Review - Perl Weekly Challenge - 052
Perl Solutions Review by Ryan Thompson.
2020.04.06 in #455 Perl Review - Perl Weekly Challenge - 053
Perl Solutions Review by Ryan Thompson.
2020.04.12 in #455 Perl Review - Perl Weekly Challenge - 054
Perl Solutions Review by Ryan Thompson.
2020.04.19 in #456 PWC 056 › Diff-K
Ryan shared lots of Perl and Raku magic in one blog.
2020.04.19 in #456 PWC 056 › Path Sum
Ryan made good use generic Tree based solution. Highly Recommended.
2022.04.23 in #561 PWC 161 › Abecedarian Words
I simply love the poetic style coding. You get to learn so much by just reading such code. Thank you for sharing.
2022.04.23 in #561 PWC 161 › Pangrams
Welcome back to blogging for the weekly challenge. The clarity and simplicity is your USP. Keep it up great work.
2022.04.27 in #562 PWC 162 › ISBN-13
Cool use of pairmap function of List::Util. Thanks for the introduction.
2022.04.27 in #562 PWC 162 › Wheatstone–Playfair Cipher
Clean and compact solution to the task Wheatstone–Playfair Cipher. Keep it up great work.
2022.05.07 in #563 A tail of two sums
Perl one-liner is not to be missed and matching the power of Raku. Thanks for your contributions.
2022.05.14 in #564 PWC 164 › Palindromic Primes
Cool observation about Palindrone Primes. So organised blog, not to be missed. Keep it up great work.
2022.05.14 in #564 PWC 164 › Happy Numbers
Ryan shared the secret $_ * $_ is better than $_ ** 2, something I never looked at closely. Keep it up great work.
2022.05.18 in #565 PWC 165 › Simple SVG generator
I simply love the presentation. It is so colourfull and makes it fun to follow through. Keep it up great work.
2022.05.19 in #566 PWC 166 › Hexadecimal Words
Ryan never miss the opportunity to surprise us. This time, we got the deluxe version. I must admit, it is coolest one. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.
2022.05.19 in #566 PWC 166 › K-Directory Diff
I really enjoy the process to get the end result. It looks so simple and obvious. Thank you for all the hard work.
2022.05.30 in #567 PWC 167 › Circular Primes
Thank you Ryan for throwing lights on edge cases. It shows how much command you have over the subject. Thank you for everything.
2022.05.30 in #567 PWC 167 › Lanczos Gamma Approximation
The blog post for Gamma Function task appears to be tricky and Ryan cracked it in no time. Well done.
2022.06.06 in #568 PWC 168 › Perrin Primes
I am very impressed with the presentation of blog. There is plenty to learn from him. Highly recommended as always.
2022.06.06 in #568 PWC 168 › Home Prime
I loved the comparison of recursive and iterative solutions. Keep it up great work.
2022.06.16 in #569 PWC 169 › Brilliant and Achilles Numbers
A compact solution with the help of CPAN module. The detailed analysis is worth checking it out.
2022.06.25 in #570 Primordial Numbers and Kronecker Products
Another smart use of CPAN module and you end up with a clean and easy to read code. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.
2022.06.28 in #571 Perl Review - Perl Weekly Challenge - 164
Perl Solutions Review by Ryan Thompson.
2022.07.03 in #571 PWC 171 › Odd Abundant Numbers
Ryan being Ryan, we have received plenty of different approaches. Highly Recommended.
2022.07.03 in #571 PWC 171 › First Class Functions
Beautiful looking solutions in Perl and Raku. You don't want to miss out the fun.
2024.03.08 in #659 Bank Holidays and Line Parser
This is what I was missing for so long. What a quality post we have. Thanks for your contribution.
2024.07.01 in #676 Maximum Frequency and now my Day is Complete
Welcome back to blogging and thanks for introduction to Python. It is always pleasure to have your post. Thank you.
2024.10.06 in #689 3rd Maximum and Jbmueld Wrods
It is always nice to see how the person who proposed the task is going on about it. You will not be disappointed, I must tell you.
2024.10.09 in #690 Seeing Double, Twice!
Two in a row, what a pleasant surprise. Thanks for the quality blog post. Please keep sharing.

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