• 2013.08.28 in #110 Perl 5 Internals - Part One
  Rob Hoelz reports from a presentation given by Yves Orton and Steffen Mueller on the internals of Perl. Short and quite digestible covering the basics of memory allocation for scalar values.
• 2013.09.11 in #112 Perl 5 Internals - Part Three
  In which Rob Hoelz explains what is the difference between undef $x; and $x = undef; and how perl handles hashes internally.
• 2013.10.07 in #116 Perl 5 Internals - Part Four
  In this part of the series, Rob Hoelz covers the optree, which is quite similar to what others might call an abstract syntax tree (AST). comments
• 2013.11.18 in #122 Oh My Glob
  Do you know how import works in Perl? Do you know what \*STDOUT means? Do you know how to create a function on the fly? Rob Hoelz explains all that.
• 2014.06.19 in #152 System Sleuthing - Using ptrace to Print Backtraces
  Rob Hoelz introduces Devel::Trace::Syscall. It uses ptrace to figure out when a system call is made.
• 2015.12.15 in #230 Hunted By a Leak - Part Two
  In a nutshell, if I understood it correctly, certain subroutine signatures cause a memory leak, but spending two weeks in Japan can solve them.
• 2016.01.20 in #235 Getting End-of-Document POD and Declarative POD to Play Nice in Perl 6
  In Perl 6 you can have access to the documentation during run-time. (Does this mean we could write a module that would just read its own documentation and then execute it?
• 2016.03.05 in #241 Finding the most common n-grams in Russian using Perl 6 and HabrHabr
  Rob builds n-gram frequency data for Russian, based on text from a Russian tech blog site, in Perl 6.
• 2017.09.18 in #322 Opinions Wanted On Changing Vim Syntax Highlighting
  Rob presents an issue with syntax highlighting in vim-perl, and asks for users of vim-perl to vote on which solution you prefer.
• 2020.09.12 in #477 What do you do with five minute chunks of time?
  I struggle with this a lot.

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