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Dear #OpenSource #Fediverse: Is it time to revive some of the good old parts of the #Perl and #RakuLang communiti…

Writing a #Perl script for the first time in a long time. Feels good, still the best way to munge some text.

CVE-2011-10007 was actually published on
2025-06-05.
🔗 Vulnerability details https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/CVE-2011-10007
🔗 Details

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Today we had a very relaxed Vienna.pm #Perl BBQ (aka KAMEL-Grillen) on Donauinsel. Perfect weather (maybe a tiny bit cold in the evening), good food & drinks, nice people!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=p0K7u3B_8rY
Deep space software update …
… reminds me of the time I was an undergraduate on my first contract job and got MySQL working in Perl via just FTP and no terminal access …
… like sticking your arm into a drink machine, shoulder …

I maintain a heterogeneous MSP environment for backup which consists of a collection of sh scripts (they mostly run on FreeBSD) with (c) notes dating back to 2004, with 5 authors, 4 of whom are no longer my cow-orkers. As the unfortunate 5th, I am still doing tweaks to catch edge & corner cases >20y after the 1st author had the idea that rsync, shell, mt, & standard POSIX tools could be assembled into a decent free backup world.
Use Python. Or Go. Or even Perl.

Today I failed to create a formatted XLSX file based on a template (using Excel::Template::XLSX), so I fixed a bug instead that prevented XLS file (the old ones, without the X) upload. And with XLS the formatting is copied, so that's good enough for now. #Perl

I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not
just technically but also socially.
-- Larry Wall in <199702111730.JAA28598@wall.org>

At the German #Perl Workshop, I had the privilege to organize a panel about #OpenSource #Sustainability on #CPAN…

KAMEL-Grillen am 13.6.2025, Donauinsel Grillplatz #10: #Perl