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Cheap Electronics as a Sudoku Alternative

Today's challenge is to drive a cheap 8-digit LED display. Months ago I bought a cheap module from Aliexpress. Too cheap. Instead of a nice smart LED driver chip as I had expected, it features instead the jewel of 1980's technology: a pair of 74HC596 shift registers. Let's explore this puzzle!

Term + hoes = Theorems

An alternade is one of those fun word puzzles that I enjoy solving by cheating, using wizardry rather than brain sweat.

Musically Numbered

The other day, while driving, a friend commented that the most common word in song titles was Love, and that the second most common was not 'You' as you might hope, but 'I'.