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Issue #511 - 2021-05-10 - I am exhausted
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Hi there, There have now been more words spent on the improper way TPF in general and CAT in particular handled the abusive behavior than the decade-long harassment and abuse by - let's keep to the tradition - Individual 1. Some of the lieutenants of the abuser demand evidence, but this is just a well known tactic for silencing them. As we all know abused and harassed people rarely speak up. Partially because they know the lieutenants will then try to discredit them and they will receive further harassment and abuse. I am not suprised that many people leave their active role in Perl or withdraw from certain parts of the Perl community and I am not surprised that most of them do it silently. After publishing this I fully expect the team will now restart harassing me as well or will just keep spreading lies about me. This whole 'discussion' is really exhausting and I can understand that most of the reasonable people will want to keep a distance from it. So let's see what positive went on the last week and let me point out two: The question Anybody hacking on anything cool this week? and the answers to it were excellent. This is what we need. So do this: Write a 5-line entry on that Reddit-post or on dev.to (or any other visible place) about a cool project you worked on in the last week. Then send the link to me! The Easier web sites for CPAN modules project is another example of Dave Cross moving things forward. If you are a CPAN author, pick one of your modules and set up a website for it using this module. Then send me the link! Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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An excellent list of stuff people have been doing. Are you inspired yet? |
Articles
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) xmpl allows you to set up a quick webbish example application that provides, at its basic level, a key-value store. With time, it has grown to support a few additional integrations, e.g. it supports Prometheus-compatible metrics and Kubernetes-compatible 'healtz' endpoints. | 
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by David Cantrell (DCANTRELL) One of the constant debates among CPAN developers is what's the oldest version of Perl their modules should support. CPANdeps could have made the decision to stop supporting old modules easier as it provided a way for anyone to download the most recent version of a module that can still be used on their ancient version of Perl. David tells us there is an alternative tool for that and so he plans to shut down his site. | 
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An article in The Register. So now we know what is needed for newpapers to start talking about Perl. Is this really what the Perl community needs? |
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by Andrew Solomon (ILLY) There were several earlier attempts to get people to link to modern Perl resources without a lot of success. Let's see if Andrew can get the community to influence Google search results. | 
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Discussion
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) In a nutshell: The behaviour of Individual 1 and Individual 2 were unacceptable to some of the signatories, but this not the way to punish them. See also the discussion on Reddit. | 
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Web
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by Mark Gardner A Mojolicious-based web application with some light JavaScript code to show the localized version of the dates. Discuss it on dev.to. | 
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) When you set up a site for your module, please post a link to it somewhere visible. (e.g. dev.to or Reddit just to give two examples). Actually I have another suggestion. If you'd like to set up such a web site and you are not sure how, let's have a live pair setup session where we explore this module. | 
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy a quick recap of last week contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Search Matrix" and "Ordered Letters" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Aaron Smith Cool demonstration of fetching data over the web in Raku. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Abigail As always, Abigail, shows the powers of various languages while dealing with the Search Matrix task. Worth checking. |
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by Abigail Abigail is the master of regexes. He came up with another gem of regex in Perl. Highly Recommended. |
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by Arne Sommer Arne presented a complete commnad line solution. Cool, he even tried against German dictionary. |
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by Colin Crain We are presented a couple of implementations for Search Matrix task. We even have benchmarks to compare the performance. |
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) Dave's discussion on the performance matrix is the highlight. You don't want to miss it. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) I am amazed how algorithm complexity is calculated. I still don't understand it, sorry. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio always surprises me with his analysis. This time we get a Unicode lesson. |
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by James Smith James presented us with an exceptional performance matrix with analysis. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld As always Lauarent came up a with detailed analysis and presented his solutions in Perl and Raku. |
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by W Luis Mochan Luis shared a unique solution to the Ordered Letters task in Perl. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Luca Ferrari Luca showed the power of Raku when dealing with the weekly challenge. He made it look so simple. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Roger shared some very interesting ideas dealing with Ordered Letters task. Please go check out yourself. |
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by Simon Green Simply loved the creativity in accepting the matrix and target. Nice discussion about his approach. |
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