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I just released v1.0.0 of my actions-rust-release action.

Recently, I’ve been using Claude to build some apps that I’ve always wanted, but which were too much work to do myself.

Name redacted because I’m a nice person?

I recently tried using Claude to look at my ubi project and tell me about any bugs it found.

Have you ever tried to tell me what to do, only to find I ignored you?

Many years ago, in the glory days of 2019, when I was young and carefree, with the wind in my hair and all the youthful joy of the world in my soul, I created my ci-perl-helpers project for testing Perl modules in Azure Pipelines.

I’m cross-posting this from an issue I made for actions-rust-release.

I just released v1.0.0 Beta 1 of my actions-rust-cross GitHub Action.

A while back I created a new GitHub Action for releasing Rust projects which produce binary releases (as opposed to crates).

My team at MongoDB is three Senior Engineers.

I’ve been living in Taiwan since December 20 of last year and I’ll return on June 29.

Last Updated: January, 2026 This is a post on finding vegan food in Taiwan, with some context on the history of vegetarian food here.

My universal binary installer tool, ubi, has to deal with a lot of “interesting” decisions when it comes to how people name their releases on GitHub.

When I started at MongoDB in May of 2022 I was the fourth person on my team.

Last Saturday my wife and I saw Sleep No More in New York City.

The highlight of all this is my brand new GitHub Action for cross-compiling Rust projects.

This is probably obvious to anyone paying attention to my CPAN releases over the past few years, but in case it’s not, I wanted to state this clearly.

I just released version 0.4.0 of precious, my code quality meta-tool for configuring a collection of linters and tidiers for a project.

My team at MongoDB is hiring a senior engineer.

A while back I was looking at the output from my GitHub profile generator and it seemed off.

Edit: In the discussion on /r/programming a comment from /u/nik9000 pointed me at what I think is the best solution.

I went to The Perl and Raku Conference 2022 in Houston from June 22-24.

I’ve been at MongoDB for six weeks now and it’s been great.

I suspect that this title makes no sense to most people, so here’s the background.

I did a lot of coding and design challenges during my recent job search!

Assuming nothing unexpected and unhappy happens, this will be my final Job Search 2022 update.

It’s week 5 and my brain is tired.

Has it been four weeks?

A number of the companies I’ve been interviewing with are using Guide to create an “interview guide” that they send to candidates.

Week 3 of my job search has come to a close, and boy is my brain tired!

Week 2 is over.

So after my last update, I had one small change to write about.

Week 1 of my job search is coming to a close.

So it’s that time of my life again.

At the end of my last post, “Frontend Rust Without Node”, I talked about my big issue with using Tailwind CSS.

When I started my frontend Rust project, I used a Seed project starter template that included Tailwind, webpack, some more JS frontend dev stuff, and some TypeScript glue code that launches the app.

The last time I wrote about this was 8 days after I left my last position, at ActiveState.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been working on a music player for a while as a fun side project.

Edit 2022-01-19: I’ve since moved the script to a public repo.

Since leaving my job last October I’ve been working on various personal projects for fun and learning.

I’m currently enjoying being unemployed, and I won’t be looking for a new position until some time in 2022, but I’ve been thinking about what I want from next position.

Today was my last day at ActiveState.

It’s been a few weeks since my last post on this project.

Earlier this week, I wrote about security issues in Perl IP address distros.

Edit on 2021-03-29 21:40(ish) UTC: Added Net-Subnet (appears unaffected) and reordered the details to match the list at the top of the post.

Edit 2021-03-30: Jeremy Mikkola wrote about some closely related topics back in 2017.

Last week I wrote the first post in this series, where I introduced the project and wrote about generating Rust code for the parsed Postgres AST.

This is the first of a planned series of blog posts about my pg-pretty project.

Last year in May I made some predictions.

TLDR: Helped my father move.