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#FOSDEM was awesome as always! Lots of action around the Perl and Raku table. Well done to everyone who volunteered! It was a blast!
We had stickers for #perl, #rakulang , @…

The ideal way to start the new year: Getting the mail server blocked by Microsoft. But there was an upside: I've now added a check to our mail sending script that inspects the bounces and won't send mails to domains that have a relevant number of bounces in the last $interval. #Perl #DevLife

#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

The year is 2026 and I just fixed some broken Perl code. Living in the future, baby.
#perl

“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:

Back in Brussels for #FOSDEM week! Full program from Tuesday to Monday 😅
Also: brought almost a kg of stickers for the #Perl and #rakulang booth.

Today I once again wrote some nice SQL to fix yesterdays fuckup. A few years ago I would have written a #Perl script, but nowadays my #SQL is good enough (and #Postgres has nice enough features) to d…

RE: #PERL to the

I did it guys... i used chatgpt in a productive way.
I've been banging my head against the wall trying to get some perl XPath stuff to work... I asked it a specific question with the XML i had, and what it produced works. And it's reasonably succinct.
I stand ready to be flogged.
#AI #coding #Perl #LLM

#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).

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…