• 2012.01.11 in #25 The Case of the Overloaded Curlys
  C. Auguste Dupin helping Tom Wyant in a Perl parsing problem. Brilliant.
• 2012.01.27 in #27 The Case of the Incompatible Safe
  Tom Wyant asked C. Auguste Dupin again for help. This time with a conflict between Safe, Devel::Cover, Data::Dumper and eval. Unfortunately Dupin was just mocking him.
• 2012.12.01 in #71 The Case of the Unexpected Pax
  C. Auguste Dupin is tracking down problems with packaging. Brought to you by Tom Wyant.
• 2016.03.04 in #241 MacPorts openssl versus Perl
  Tom found that a failure with LWP::Protocol::https was due to an upgrade from 1.0.2f to 1.0.2g of OpenSSL. He shows how you can downgrade a MacPort. You should be aware of the security issues announced this week (the most widely reported being the DROWN attack), which affected older versions of OpenSSL.
• 2016.03.11 in #242 Son of MacPorts openssl versus Perl
  A quick follow-up on Tom's original blog entry on the woes of having openssl and Perl play nice together on MacOS.
• 2016.03.16 in #243 Stupid perldoc-search trick
  Tom shows how you can use perldoc-search to look for documentation, while excluding the current directory, so it doesn't pull in random stuff.
• 2016.06.15 in #256 Refactor of Perl Critic policy ProhibitUnusedVarsStricter
  Tom describes the changes in the new version of his Perl::Critic::Policy::Variables::ProhibitUnusedVarsStricter module. It's a Perl::Critic policy for catching unused variables.
• 2016.06.27 in #258 Retraction of Geo::Coder::Geocoder::US
  Tom posted that he was going to delete Geo::Coder::Geocoder::US from CPAN, but then discussion in the comments resulted in Tom deciding to deprecate the module, and possibly delete it from CPAN at some later date.
• 2016.11.02 in #276 DateTime::Calendar::Christian updated
  Tom was recently granted co-maint on DateTime::Calendar::Christian and has done a developer release, the first release in 13 years. He'd like feedback from anyone with an interest in it.
• 2016.11.22 in #279 CPAN Testers RULE!
  Just a quick blurt of love for CPAN Testers, which save so much of our bacon so often, and for one particularly diligent member of this phalanx of tireless sentinels standing in the threshold between order and chaos: Slaven Rezic.
• 2017.03.09 in #294 Shire Calendar Update
  You know, from Middle-Earth.
• 2017.07.22 in #313 PPIx-Regexp Perl Version Functionality
  Tom introduces his PPIx::Regexp module, which provides a PPI-like interface for parsing regular expressions.

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