Mastodawn

For all of you who ever wanted to program a Turing machine!
https://mng.quest/

Marches & Gnats — Fantastical game of programming challenges

A fantastical game of programming challenges set in 19th-century Estonia, where each challenge is both a story and a test of your computational ingenuity.

Marches & Gnats

E. Choroba Oct 3, 2025

Using AI to Optimise the Calculation of Krippendorff’s Alpha
https://blogs.perl.org/users/e_choroba/2025/10/using-ai-to-optimise-the-calculation-of-krippendorffs-alhpa.html
#perl

Using AI to Optimise the Calculation of Krippendorff’s Alpha | E. Choroba [blogs.perl.org]

E. Choroba Mar 24, 2025

Today, I fixed my Markbass cabinet by gluing a loose leather fabric in its bass reflex vent. It had flapped and made the sound crackle.

E. Choroba Dec 25, 2024

Merry Christmas everyone!

E. Choroba Dec 5, 2022

The difference between the solutions to the two tasks of day 5 of #adventofcode in #perl is one word, in #python it's one character 🙂 https://github.com/choroba/aoc22

GitHub - choroba/aoc22: Advent of Code 2022

Advent of Code 2022. Contribute to choroba/aoc22 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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E. Choroba Nov 6, 2022

Array Degree
http://blogs.perl.org/users/e_choroba/2022/11/array-degree.html
#perl

E. Choroba Jan 12, 2022

New distribution inspired by the Weekly Challenge https://metacpan.org/pod/String::Eertree
#perl

String::Eertree - Build the palindromic tree aka Eertree for a string - metacpan.org

Build the palindromic tree aka Eertree for a string

E. Choroba Jan 26, 2020

The bug hunt continues...
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/issues/141
#xml

Filenames starting with a digit are stored percent encoded in xmlDoc.URL (#141) · Issues · GNOME / libxml2

I used http://www.xmlsoft.org/examples/parse1.c to reproduce the problem. Just add fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", doc->URL); before the `xmlFreeDoc(doc);`. Then create the following XML files with any well-formed content: a:2.xml 1:b.xml 1%3Ab.xml The program...

E. Choroba Jan 14, 2020

Perl Weekly Challenge fixes Wikipedia! http://blogs.perl.org/users/e_choroba/2020/01/perl-weekly-challenge-043-olympic-rings-and-self-descriptive-numbers.html #perl

Perl Weekly Challenge 043: Olympic Rings and Self-Descriptive Numbers | E. Choroba [blogs.perl.org]

E. Choroba Dec 26, 2019

My solutions to this year's #adventofcode are now public: https://github.com/choroba/aoc19 #perl

GitHub - choroba/aoc19: Advent of Code 2019

Advent of Code 2019. Contribute to choroba/aoc19 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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