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Issue #481 - 2020-10-12 - Remote or Distributed work
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Hi, for many years I was hoping to be able to work remotely - or to make it sound even better - in a distributed work environment, but I have not done much to advance it. Now the pandemic forced my clients to keep everyone at home and thus I, as consultant/contractor can also work from home. Some other clients where I provide training have also started to run remote training classes. Not only that, but recently I started to received interest from clients in Europe and North America as well to help with training, testing, refactoring, and automation (CI). I even managed to sign up two of them. Both of them Perl-related. It is very interesting to see how an otherwise horrible event changes the world and creates new opportunities as well. It is definitely not how I hoped. I can't use my newly found remote work to travel and work from other locations. Heck I can't even really leave my house these days, and I can't see many of my loved ones. However I hope (oh the naive) that when the pandemic ends in a year or two, we'll come out stronger from it than we were before. BTW I recommend you listen to the Distributed podcast with Matt Mullenweg. I especially liked the first few episodes, surprisingly the ones that were recorded before the world was forced to work in a distributed mode. In the meantime, enjoy this week! Gabor Szabo |
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Statistics
In this section we show some collected stats. Let's figure out what numbers could be interesting. The script(s) are in the Git repository of the Perl Weekly. See stats from the previous weeks.
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Last week there were a total of 222 uploads to CPAN of 143 distinct distributions by 77 different authors. Number of distributions with link to VCS: 112. Number of distros with CI: 57. |
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Number of posts last week: BPO: 4; DevTo: 5; Perl.com: 1; PerlAcademy: 1; PerlHacks: 0; PerlMaven: 1; Reddit: 22; TPF: 4; |
Announcements
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Articles
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) As the Hacktoberfest got more popular it started to generate more and more tiny, many times meaningless pull-requests. I received a few of them. Instead of creating values, this started to become a burden for many authors. Now they changed the rules so you need to opt-in your repository or, as far as I understand, you can also mark a pull-request as 'valid for hacktoberfest'. I really hope this isn't an overshooting in the other direction. In any case, Neil explains what you can do to opt-in your GitHub repo. | 
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by Michael D. Stemle, Jr. A few steps Michael is explaining: Implement best practices; Configure CI; Review dependencies; Develop a roadmap |
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by Yuki Kimoto (KIMOTO) Because it is pure Perl code, it can be used by Perl users to get an overview of deep learning algorithms. | 
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by Ferenc Erki (FERKI) And just a reminder, the author is open to receive financial support for his work on open source projects. | 
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Discussion
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Personally I really dislike when people call a programming language dead or some piece of open source software 'abandonware'. Even if it isn't something I started to build. IMHO it devaluates all the effort the author(s) put in the project and it disregards the simple idea that in open source you, as a user, are also responsible for the well being and the continuity of a project. With that said, the discussion and the suggestions of alternatives in this post can be useful. |
Web
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Thanks to the people who support the cause to create more Perl-related public content I had the time to record a short video. |
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Grants
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Develop a clean and easy interface for managing OpenAPI 3.x schemas. |
The Weekly Challenge
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome new week with couple of fun tasks "Common Factors" and "Interleave String". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read FAQ page. | 
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy quick recap of last week contributions by the Team PWC dealing with the "Common Base String" and "Frequency Sort" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Colin Crain Colin blog as always shared the technical details of the weekly tasks. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Laurent shared Frequency Sort task analysis. |
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by Myoungjin Jeon Myoungjin shared Raku magic used in the weekly solution. |
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by Walt Mankowski Walt discussed Perl and Python solution to the weekly challenge. |
Rakudo
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by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN) Jonathan spent over a decade putting time and energy into making the language better. Now he is taking some time off. |
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Other
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Sometimes I can write a few posts ahead of time... but stockpile them for publishing when I run out of time. Git helps. |
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Weekly collections
Events
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Thursday, October 29, 2020, 6:45 PM EDT |
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Thursday, October 8, 2020, 6:00 PM CDT |
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Thursday, October 22, 2020, 6:30 PM PDT |
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Thursday, December 3, 2020, 6:30 PM PST |
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One of the largest product and price comparison platforms in German-speaking countries is on the hunt for a Perl programmer who wants to use their skills to eradicate inflated prices. The successful candidate will relish the chance to join a team that attributes nearly two decades of success to an uncompromising commitment to transparency, objectivity, and quality content. |
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Our client has one of those stories you love to see: they started off in someone’s house, worked their way up to a tiny office, then a bigger office, and finally, to the best office of all—your house. That’s right, this domain management service is totally remote, meaning you can wear those snuggly jams all day long if you want. |
