The Hijacking of Perl.com

Feb 28, 2021 by brian d foy

community

Handling the response to our missing domain

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Extracting the list of O'Reilly Animals

Jan 11, 2021 by brian d foy

community

mojolicious

promises

oreilly

Website fun with Mojolicious’s Promises

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Stupid DATA Tricks

Oct 5, 2020 by brian d foy

syntax

When your data file is the program

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Announcing Perl 7

Jun 24, 2020 by brian d foy

perl7

tpcitc

preparing-for-perl-7

indirect

Perl 5 with modern defaults

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Perl Hacks, Perl School, and the future of Perl publishing

May 28, 2020 by brian d foy

community

perl-school

perl-hacks

interview

epub

mobi

pdf

How an independent publisher is releasing new Perl books

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Hacktoberfest 2019

Sep 26, 2019 by brian d foy

community

hacktoberfest

github

Support Open Source and get a free t-shirt

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Quoting the Shell

Jun 17, 2019 by brian d foy

data

macos

pathfinder

tag

shell

quoting

Escaping program arguments in all the wrong ways

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Use terminal colors to distinguish information

Oct 23, 2018 by brian d foy

development

usps

ansi

term-ansicolor

terminal

Term::ANSIColor makes formatting terminal output easy

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Perl foreach loops

Sep 23, 2018 by brian d foy

syntax

foreach

loop

refaliasing

The basics, the gotchas and advanced techniques

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Pretty Printing Perl 6

Jul 26, 2017 by brian d foy

perl-6

prettydump

data-dumper

pretty-printer

When .Str is not good enough

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Thinking about Perl 6

Apr 25, 2017 by brian d foy

perl-6

oreilly

interview

An Interview with Laurent Rosenfeld, author of Think Perl 6

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Track Module Changes While You Sleep

Mar 27, 2017 by brian d foy

cpan

perlmodules.net

module-extact-use

changes

Let Perlmodules.net do the work

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Six more things I like about 6

Feb 7, 2017 by brian d foy

perl-6

rat

return-value

perl-shop

failure

fmt

Perl 6 features worth spreading

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Hacktoberfest is here

Oct 2, 2016 by brian d foy

community

perl

github

pull-request

git

digitalocean

hacktoberfest

ghojo

Send those Perl GitHub pull requests!

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The History of the Schwartzian Transform

Sep 2, 2016 by brian d foy

community

perl

lisp

randal-schwartz

schwartzian-transform

alpine-perl-workshop

A complex sort with a complex history

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Perl Jam VI: April Trolls

May 4, 2016 by brian d foy

community

perl

core

random

modulus

libc

security

Perl’s ignored security problems, j/k but srsly this time

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Perl Jam VI: The Return of the Camel

Apr 1, 2016 by brian d foy

community

perl

core

security

Perl’s ignored security problems

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Magical tied scalars

Feb 16, 2016 by brian d foy

development

tie

scalar

callback

cycle

mastering-perl

Subvert and simplify code with tied scalars

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Twitter as a datastore

Jan 21, 2016 by brian d foy

web

math

social_media

net_twitter

Using social media platforms for computing applications

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Display real-time data with Curses

Oct 6, 2015 by brian d foy

data

terminal

du

filesystem

How to create terminal interfaces

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