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I brain coded a static image gallery in a few hours using #Perl #vibecoding https://domm.plix.at/perl/20…

“Perl’s early success was its own undoing. It became the default tool for the first web boom, and in doing so, it took the brunt of that era’s chaos. Then, just as it began to mature, its versioning story confused the industry into thinking it had stalled.” #Perl

Dotcom Survivor Syndrome – How Perl’s Early Success Created the Seeds of Its Downfall - Perl Hacks
If you were building web applications during the first dot-com boom, chances are you wrote Perl. And if you're now a CTO, tech lead, or senior architect, you may instinctively steer teams away from it—even if you can’t quite explain why. This reflexive aversion isn’t just a preference. It’s what I call Dotcom Survivor Syndrome:

RE: #PERL to the

#TIL you can concatenate "=~ s/…/…/r" in modern #Perl (in this case since Perl 5.14). Example:
my $a = "foobar";
my $b = $a =~ s/foo/bar/r =~ s/bar/fnord/r =~ s/fnord/gnarz/r;
say $b;
Output:
gnarzbar

Python Folks, in my old Perl days I used HTML::Template, is there something comparable (or better) for simple HTML generation with templates in the Python world?
#python #html #perl

#AdventOfCode Day 5: My stupid part 1 solution was too slow (because I checked each ingridient instead of compare the ranges). After fixing that it was fast and correct. I have a plan for part 2, but $job to do, so let's see when I get a round tuit (to quote an old #Perl saying).

@… I've sent a bunch of people a link to #perl)

For day 3 of #AdventOfCode I outsmarted myself by using `each` on an array to get the index and the value, but forgot that #Perl does not reset the counter when you exit the loop early. (It worked for part 1, though..). After switching to a stupid c-style for loop it was easy (because I agai…

Today I used the venerable rename.pl tool to fix a bunch of filenames (from 1.png, 10.png etc to lw001.png): `rename 's/^(\d )\.png/sprintf("lwd.png", $1)/e' *.png` #Perl