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For some reason, I had this notion that all of my StackOverflow activity would disappear, which was heightened by StackOverflow being down when I first tried to figure out how to download the data.

I must have written this story somewhere, but I can’t find it.

In working on cpan-security-advisory I often have a problem being behind master because I have GitHub Actions that update files on a schedule so I can release every Sunday.

This originally appeared as the StackOverflow answer to “In Perl, how can I find the index of a given value in an array?”

This originally appeared as the StackOverflow answer to “In Perl, how can I find the index of a given value in an array?”

I left this comment on Randal Schwartz’s Medium post Randal taught me OO by forcing me to use Smalltalk, although once learned, a job he said he could do in 20 minutes since there are only 5 syntatic elements, everything made sense.

I guess I’m going to start using tmux because I have to work on a system that doesn’t have the xterm package and all sorts of things wonky.

I guess I’m going to start using tmux because I have to work on a system that doesn’t have the xterm package and all sorts of things wonky.

(this was an answer to a StackOverflow question that I didn’t post because it didn’t quite fit, but I use too keen on showing off the flip-flop operator to get rid of it all) I also put this in Reddit A few other places: perlfaq5: How do I change, delete,…

(this was an answer to a StackOverflow question that I didn’t post because it didn’t quite fit, but I use too keen on showing off the flip-flop operator to get rid of it all) I also put this in Reddit A few other places: perlfaq5: How do I change, delete,…

Most versions of Perl (v5.38, v5.40, and so on) updates the Unicode Character Database (UCD), and each version of the UCD has new features, often new blocks, characters, or adjustments to property settings.

Most versions of Perl (v5.38, v5.40, and so on) updates the Unicode Character Database (UCD), and each version of the UCD has new features, often new blocks, characters, or adjustments to property settings.

How do you determine if a Perl module is “alive”?

How do you determine if a Perl module is “alive”?

I need a container for Perl v5.8, and I want it to be as small as I can make it.

I need a container for Perl v5.8, and I want it to be as small as I can make it.

I originally wrote this quickly to see about posting to my reddit profile: the post Sometimes I need a simple web server to do something in a test.

Apple’s iTunes, a long time ago, had a ratings feature for albums from back in its SoundJam MP days, which turned into predictive album ratings.

On an outing, a couple of companions mentioned that they were reading Beaver Land by Leila Philip.

I had this task to count IPv4 addresses, but the typical way of counting with a hash has problems.

A friend suggested I read Everything is Miscellaneous after I was telling him my efforts to clean up the metadata in my music collection.