• 2017.05.06 in #302 \d does not validate numbers
  \d does not always do what you expect; in a Unicode context, it will match on anything that is regarded as a numeral in Unicode!
• 2017.07.04 in #311 The not-so-great escape
  Ben wrestles with HTML escaping; the comments discuss some CPAN modules--and their bugs!
• 2017.08.25 in #318 Script to update some modules
  What if for some reason you cannot use cpan and cpanm? I think in this case the problem is lack of access to a CPAN mirror.
• 2017.08.26 in #318 Split a .pm into a .pod and a .pm
  And also make sure the example in the synopsis works.
• 2017.08.30 in #319 Check compression in web page
  Ben introduces WWW::CheckGzip, a module that will check whether a web page has the correct gzip compression.
• 2017.08.31 in #319 C comments and regular expressions
  Ben works through matching C-style comments with regular expressions.
• 2017.10.21 in #326 Cygwin interesting problems
  Cygwin is a special source of Yak Shaving with all kinds of questions one need to answer. I wonder, could AppVeyor be used to test CPAN modules on Cygwin?
• 2017.12.27 in #336 Why I recommend using the "++" system of Metacpan
  How do you know if your module is being used if no one reports anything?
• 2017.12.31 in #336 An alternative to HTML::Tagset
  
• 2018.08.31 in #371 Solving one of the two great unsolved problems in computer science
  It's said that there are two great unsolved problems in computer science: naming, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.
• 2018.10.05 in #376 Unicode::Properties slated for removal
  Ben announced that he is planning to remove the module Unicode::Propoerties from CPAN, primarily because it is using faulty methodology to get the properties.
• 2018.10.09 in #377 File::Slurp new version
  
• 2018.11.15 in #382 I'm fully covered
  In this blog, Ben started the discussion how the newly introduced feature of MetaCPAN i.e. Code Coverage has impacted his distributions.
• 2018.11.21 in #383 Don't use something or another
  At the first glance it would seem this is another article in the CGI series, but no, this actually explains why you should (almost) never use 'eval'. The evil eval.
• 2018.11.22 in #383 Be generous, but not very
  How do you validate your input? Are you trying to be nice and accept input with a typo? What if it wasn't a typo?
• 2020.02.15 in #447 av_fetch can return NULL
  How to create a segmentation fault in Perl. And how to avoid it.
• 2020.11.23 in #487 The mysterious case of the SVt_PVIV
  In a nutshell: Wanting to use emojis can lead to shaving a yak.
• 2020.12.09 in #490 Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
  Ben started an interesting discussion about putting debug information in a test script.
• 2020.12.17 in #491 Drawing a blank with XS
  As Toby Inkster commented: "Python: Let's make whitespace characters syntactically signicifant. Perl: Hold my beer and watch this!"
• 2020.12.30 in #493 Ben Bullock is Making Headway Now
  Stack overflow at 80,000 brackets in JSON. Who even needs 80,000 brackets?
• 2021.01.06 in #494 ABC Mart
  Ben is following the Mojolicious pattern of listing methods and functions in alphabetical order. Even the tests are arranged alphabetically.
• 2021.02.21 in #500 New compression module Gzip::Libdeflate
  libdeflate compression library turned into a CPAN module:
• 2021.03.02 in #502 Gzip::Zopfli
  Ben created a Perl version of Zopfli gzip compression.
• 2021.03.10 in #503 I failed to pause before blogging
  Why did PAUSE misunderstand Ben's code?
• 2021.03.15 in #503 Relatively easy ways to catch memory errors
  If you're using XS and C in your Perl module, you might have to worry about memory errors. - Oh personally I have had to deal with memory leaks in pure-Perl modules as well. It is a lot of frustration. And fun, when you finally catch it. But this post is about mallocs.
• 2021.03.15 in #504 Relatively easy ways to catch memory errors
  Memory management is something that never get talk about frequently. Nice to see it is back on the discussion table.
• 2021.03.30 in #506 Switch lots of things on at once
  Interesting blog post by Ben talking about boilerplate solutions.

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