I just saw that a blog entry I wrote for #TheWeeklyChallenge made it to the TWC Advent Calendar. https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/advent-calendar-2025-12-11/

Thank you @manwar for all the hard work you put into TWC! I look forward to more TWC in 2026, Happy Perl New Year!

Weekly Challenge: The total array

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://forem.com/simongreennet/weekly-challenge-the-total-array-2h8k

I just finished #TheWeeklyChallenge 298 and man, checking subsets of matrices was NOT fun. I wonder if #RakuLang has built-in structures for 2D arrays that make problems like that a breeze?

#programming

I don't know if #TheWeeklyChallenge has a Mastadon presence yet. If you're interested in fun coding challenges it can be worth a look.

https://theweeklychallenge.org/

The second of this weeks challenges is one of those fun O(2**n) ones where you want to come up with a plan beyond the obvious.

I'm happy I got it down to 1.5 mins in #Rakulang. And it will take pretty much the same time to calculate 1 through 15 which is cool.

(Of course that's on my 16 core dev box YMMV).

#coding #CodingPuzzle