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Apr 7, 2020 - What do you do when you're stuck inside because Coronavirus means that your country is in lockdown? Well, you write a book, of course. Or, to be more...

Jan 4, 2026 - Whenever I’m building a static website, I almost never start by reaching for Apache, nginx, Docker, or anything that feels like “proper infrastructure”....

Sep 17, 2020 - I think it was at YAPC Copenhagen in 2008 that a small group of us first discussed the idea of building a shared blogging platform for the Perl community. It...

Aug 9, 2023 - I've mentioned before how much I enjoyed Olaf Alders' talk, Whither Perl, at the Perl and Raku Conference in Toronto last month. I think it's...

Jan 14, 2021 - Blog posts are like busses. You wait months for one and then two come along on consecutive days! Yesterday I wrote about how we didn't need a blogging...

Oct 18, 2022 - I've been building Docker containers again. And I think you'll find this one a little more useful than the Perlanet one I wrote about a couple of...

How an independent publisher is releasing new Perl books

Mar 30, 2024 - I've spent more than a reasonable amount of time thinking about Amazon links over the last three or four years. It started with the Perl School web site....

Oct 22, 2024 - After a break of five years, the London Perl Workshop returns next weekend. It's been twenty years since the first one. This year's event is at a new...

Nov 5, 2017 - The London Perl Workshop is looking frighteningly imminent. It's on November 25th - that's less than three weeks away. All across the capital (and...

May 10, 2025 - I write blog posts in a number of different places: Davblog has been my general blog for about twenty years Perl Hacks is where I write about Perl My Substack...

Mar 18, 2017 - The Perl Conference (formerly known as YAPC) in Amsterdam is getting closer. Oh, sure, it's not imminent, but in five months time it will all be over. And...

Aug 2, 2019 - I said that I probably wouldn't have time to get involved with the Perl Weekly Challenge every week and that has, unfortunately, proven to be the case....

Aug 3, 2018 - For most of last week I was out of London running three days of Perl training for... well, I probably shouldn't name them, so let's just call them a...

Nov 17, 2024 - When I first wrote about my pointless personal side projects a few months ago, I used the software I had written to generate my own link site (like a LinkTree...

Feb 25, 2024 - The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed - William Gibson The quotation above was used by Tim O'Reilly a lot around the time...

Jun 24, 2018 - I thought it might be interesting to talk about some of the topics I'll be covering at my workshops at The Perl Conference in Glasgow in August. Today...

Jun 27, 2025 - Recently, Gabor ran a poll in a Perl Facebook community asking which version of Perl people used in their production systems. The results were...

Dec 9, 2018 - Earlier this week, the Perl magazine site, perl.com, published an article about writing web applications using CGI.pm. That seemed like a bizarre choice to me,...

Sep 22, 2024 - Over the last few months, I've been dabbling in using AI to generate or improve code. I have a subscription to GitHub Copilot and I'm finding it a...

Mar 17, 2019 - The European Perl Conference this year is going to be held in Riga in August. That might seem a long way away, but it's never too early to start thinking...

Mar 3, 2023 - This is a story of one of those nice incidents where something starts off simple, then spirals out of control for a while but, in the end, everyone wins. On...

Jan 11, 2019 - Earlier this week, I saw this code being recommended on Stack Overflow. The code contains a nasty, but rather subtle bug. The version I saw has been fixed now,...

Feb 2, 2025 - At the end of my last post, we had a structure in place that used GitHub Actions to run a workflow every time a change was committed to the PPC repository....

Sep 24, 2025 - A few of my recent projects—like Cooking Vinyl Compilations and ReadABooker—aim to earn a little money via affiliate links. That only works if people...

May 31, 2021 - [Update: the CPAN Request Tracker was saved. It's now run by a new team of volunteers and none of my suggestions below are required.] Two weeks ago, we...

Jan 4, 2025 - The London Perl Mongers have had a website for a very long time. Since some time in 1998, I think. At first, I hosted a static site for us. Later on, we bought...

May 17, 2023 - [This post might sound like I'm angry at people making it hard to make progress on some things. That's not the case at all. I realise completely that...