Anagrams and Palindromes: Word Play with Tools
Listen becomes silent via a sorting trick, 89 needs 24 steps to mirror, and 196 has defeated billions of computations: wordplay with mechanics.
Cleaning messy text, deduplicating and sorting lists, counting words and characters, and converting case in bulk. Built around the invisible characters and separator mixups that break copy-pasted data.
Listen becomes silent via a sorting trick, 89 needs 24 steps to mirror, and 196 has defeated billions of computations: wordplay with mechanics.
Case conversion has rulebooks and two real traps: it destroys information one way, and it is language-dependent in ways ASCII rules corrupt.
A character is not one thing: the limits that matter, the emoji that counts four ways, the SMS trap that halves your message, and the workflow.
Dedupe is one click and three decisions: matching options, survivor choice, and the sleeper mode that shows only the duplicates.
Sorting has conventions, not just an algorithm: natural sort, the lowercase sink, accent handling, and the options that decide what you get.
Messy lists clean up in four passes if you run them in the right order: the pipeline, the invisible enemies, and every tool mapped by job.
To convert text to Morse code, each letter is replaced by its own pattern of dots and dashes. The word SOS becomes … — …, three short signals, three long, three short. Morse code was built in the 1830s to send messages over a telegraph wire using nothing but short and long pulses, and it … Read more