perl6 on donaldh.wtf

Spelling Bee

Sun, 03 Nov 2019 17:39:31 +0000

A solver for the NYT daily Spelling Bee, written in Raku (nee Perl 6).

Stones and Jewels

Wed, 18 Sep 2019 23:26:22 +0100

This is a solution to task #1 from the 26th Perl Weekly Challenge, written in Perl 6.

The Vigenère Cipher

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 16:48:31 +0100

This is a solution to task #2 from the 15th Perl Weekly Challenge, written in Raku (nee Perl 6).

Van Eck by'eck

Mon, 24 Jun 2019 22:13:53 +0100

This is a solution to challenge #1 from the 14th Perl Weekly Challenge.

Postal Words

Mon, 24 Jun 2019 16:45:58 +0100

This is a solution to challenge #2 from the 14th Perl Weekly Challenge, written in Raku.

Roman Numerals in Raku

Wed, 29 May 2019 10:23:44 +0100

My first shot at the Perl Weekly Challenge with a Roman numeral encoder in Raku (nee Perl 6).

Blogging With Hugo and Org Babel

Wed, 12 Sep 2018 22:30:00 +0100

I think I have finally found a blogging platform that makes me happy. It needs to fit my programmer's workflow – git, markup and blogging about code. Hugo with org-babel nails it.

Golfing Faster FASTA

Tue, 04 Sep 2018 20:45:00 +0100

After reading Timotimo's excellent Faster FASTA Please blog post, I wanted to test some of the available performance tradeoffs.

A Twist To The Rational Story

Sun, 02 Sep 2018 21:00:00 +0100

As a followup to brrt's Curious Benchmark post, I wanted to explore some of the questions that were left unanswered.

Embedding Perl6 in Eclipse

Sat, 26 Jul 2014 19:02:02 +0100

[Coke] asked me a simple question on irc:

donaldh: have you any idea how to bundle perl6 in a jar we could invoke from eclipse?

This tickled my urge to explore embedding Rakudo / JVM, to refresh my knowledge of Eclipse and also to have some fun hacking with Perl 6.