JJA

This blog post was originally posted in the Perl Advent Calendar 2025.

This year’s London Perl & Raku Workshop took place on 29 November, a couple of days before I write these lines.

This post is based on the transcript of a talk given at The Raku Conference in the Cloud on 7 September, 2022.

This blog post was originally posted in the Perl Advent Calendar 2023.

The last time I wrote about bundling vendored modules in Perl, I was a little annoyed by the fact that the tools I was using did not allow me to bundle a specific dependency.

In the past year or so, every time I’ve wanted to use hot-reloading1 for some service I’m writing, I’ve reached for a tool called reflex.

A lifetime ago,1 back when I was still convinced I was on track to become a speech researcher, I spent a considerable amount of time dealing with ToBI tone markers.

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on a minimal HTTP client library for Raku, and it has now been released.

A couple of days ago, while prototyping the solution to a problem I had, I wrote a bit of code that brought immense joy to me.

Raku is full of neat little tricks and gems that can make the programmer’s life simpler (or at least a whole more entertaining).