• 2016.09.28 in #271 Randal Schwartz the host of FLOSS Weekly
  Also the most prolific author of Perl books. (If you are already on that page, don't forget to subscribe to the podcast!)
• 2021.03.21 in #505 "My half-life with Perl" from OSCON 2013 live encore performance
  Unfortunately the video is not available to me.
• 2023.09.08 in #633 A bit of history about The Gecko Book
  Interesting facts by the creator himself.
• 2024.12.19 in #700 Half My Life with Perl
  
• 2025.08 in #735 Finally fixed a two-decade bug in my File::Finder CPAN module
  Not only that, but it was a bug on Windows!
• 2025.08.21 in #735 Two decades later, a bug is fixed in one of my CPAN modules
  
• 2026.07.04 in #780 The AI Revolution is Validating 40 Years of Perl Philosophy
  Randal examines the relationship between the emergence of large language models and Larry Wall’s original concept of Perl as a language based on context (semiotics) and language. The shift toward a semantic/conceptual view of programming allows AI systems to start operating based on principles that have been used by Perl programmers all along, rather than forcing us to program like mathematical devices.

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