Olaf Alders

I don’t know if tmux is getting more popular or if it’s just so much easier to publish a tmux plugin or some combination of the two, but I’m amazed at how many people are putting out new tmux plugins.

Yesterday I stumbled across this delightful collection of latte art by Yuko Honda on Flickr.

LWP::ConsoleLogger is one of the little libraries that I am most proud of.

The Perl Toolchain Summit (PTS) is an annual event, held in Europe, where work on improving the Perl toolchain takes place.

Clothing-optional runs are niche events, but if you enjoy running and you’re also the kind of person who gets stressed trying to choose an outfit, these might be just what you’re looking for.

It’s that time of year again.

MetaCPAN will be turning 16 in November and it now has dark mode.

A couple of years ago I wrote 4 Strategies for Context Switching in Git, and a lot of the reaction I got was basically “that’s cool — probably not gonna use it”.

Terrance Stanley Fox was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist.

I’ve had some time to revisit perlimports, and aside from fixing some bugs, I’ve finally added sorting.

Door handle designed by Jasper Morrison by JT at JMLtd, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

My Mind is Racing tracks over 53,000 swim/bike/run/multisport events and more than 22,000 organizations.

With the rise of LLMs we’ve seen a couple of interesting things happen.

I’m not racing every weekend, but I try to keep busy.

"Western Hemisphere, World Atlas by Rand, McNally and Co. (1908)" by Free Public Domain Illustrations by rawpixel is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

"Yoga Rave" by Tucker Sherman is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Photo by the author.

#PTS 2025 in Leipzig The Perl Toolchain Summit (PTS) is an annual event, held in Europe, where work on improving the Perl toolchain takes place.

I want to talk about two things today.

You’ve just completed a hard workout.

"Ref. 913 HEUER S.A.V.I.C stopwatch" by Ikonicstopwatch is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 .

Earlier today I saw this post from Curtis Poe.

As I’ve been working on My Mind is Racing, I’ve been trying to make the pages look nicer when they are shared.

There is currently some recognition of the fact that with code creation having become cheaper, the burden of code review has not necessarily become easier.

"open mic" by Ed Schipul is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

"This old house once filled with joy" by Don O'Brien is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

"Mechanical egg timer" by Hustvedt is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .

"Burglars Burgle Elsewhere" by hobvias sudoneighm is licensed under CC BY 2.0 .

"It's the Yellow One" by Brendan C is licensed under CC BY 2.0 .