Created https://metacpan.org/dist/Types-Music this morning. It's something I've wanted for a long time - specific parameter types for validating music software, like `BPM` or 'Named_Note_Octave` for things like 120, or "Bb5", etc. Woo!
Ah, cool ! 
cc:Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
cc:@Namhyung Kim
cc:Dmitry Vyukov
Any #Perl devs with #PerlDancer #Dancer2 experience and #PlackTest experience able to give me a debugging hint? An app I’m trying to migrate from Alpine to Debian works as expected on the new image but in the testing context it’s not creating a session from the cookie being sent in the test request.
The Weekly Challenge - 315 #Perl #RakuLang
Task 1: Find Words
Task 2: Find Third
https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-315
The Weekly Challenge 314: Stringy Columns #Perl #RakuLang #RustLang #Postscript #CrystalLang #PerlWeeklyChallenge #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2025/03/The_Weekly_Challenge_314__Stringy_Columns.html
I am in urgent job search mode, so I'm gonna throw this out here and see if anything comes of it.
I am a #Canadian, fluent in both #English and #French. I have experience with several programming languages. My strongest proficiency is with #Haskell and #C. I also have a reasonable grasp of #HTML, #JavaScript, #SQL, #Python, #Lua, #Linux system administration, #bash scripting, #Perl, #AWK, some #Lisp (common, scheme, and emacs), and probably several others I've forgotten to mention.
I am not necessarily looking for something in tech. I just need something stable. I have done everything from software development, to customer support, to factory work, though my current circumstances make in-person work more difficult than remote work. I have been regarded as a hard worker in every job I have ever held.
There was at least one positive thing these last days. One of our team has decided on their own to rewrite their Perl/MongoDB stack to Go/PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB. This is beautiful.
@hobbsc @ology
if by popularity, you mean taught in college and lots of entry level jobs for RCGs, no.
if by popularity, do we like them?
yes we who follow one or both of those tags do.
(if you asked # 
, they'd say #perl was dead; but they think tabs are syntax, so I'd take their opinions with about 4 Tbsp Salt.)
I’ve really enjoyed working with @ology on his toolkit for scoring #MIDI #drumming, MIDI-Drummer-Tiny. He’s patiently answered my questions and had the grace to accept my pull requests, most of which haven’t so much added new features as they’ve helped clarify how to use the library successfully.
Gene has helped me get back into the swing of #Perl #programming after months of inactivity, and I’m looking forward to working with him more in the future. I couldn’t have asked for a better collaborator.
@rincewind Why the hate? Use something different if you don't like #Perl.
Is anyone here intersted in writing an essay about how the effort to migrate from mostly dead and hard to use scricting language to something more appropriate?
If so, I've got a title for you: "Kill the Camel"
#perl
Creating a lot Postgres roles with random passwords stored in gopass http://domm.plix.at/perl/2025_03_create_postgres_roles_with_gopass.html
#Perl #PostgreSQL
I knew @mjd long ago as part of a small group of us into #Perl & also hard-core academically-minded programming language theory. MJD & I fell out of touch in 2000s. Even back then, I'd've urged anyone to hire MJD if they could. A quick look of his current resume…
https://plover.com/~mjd/cv/Mark%20Jason%20Dominus.pdf
…shows MJD spent last 20 years becoming even more knowledgeable in all areas of software.
I made this public job reference for MJD completely unsolicited. I hope you'll hire him to work on 100% FOSS, of course!
Yesterday: Deployed #perl db-to-api tool https://metacpan.org/pod/WebAPI::DBIC, once for a project where folks now don’t have the “I don’t write Perl” excuse to contribute, and once against #Mobilizon, cos I just give up with #graphql. Now I have to deal with the it’s db schema instead #programming
The Weekly Challenge - 314 #Perl #RakuLang
Task 1: Equal Strings
Task 2: Sort Column
https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-314
As a #Perl programmer this kind of misunderstanding and intolerance is all too familiar. 
#coding
https://mastodon.social/@abratus/114205735363067363
The Weekly Challenge 313: Broken and Reversed #Perl #RakuLang #RustLang #Postscript #CrystalLang #PerlWeeklyChallenge #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2025/03/The_Weekly_Challenge_313__Broken_and_Reversed.html
Dave Millar 
