This morning, for a paid project, I compiled #Perl on my circa-2020 MacBook for the first time, and then set cpanm to install the project’s library dependencies. It paused for a while on DBIx::Class, and it felt like a moment of silence. I am feeling feelings.

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Yesterday evening I ordered my #Perl shirt. Pretty excited about it!

Perl Weekly Challenge 367's tasks are "Max Odd Binary" and "Conflict Events". Since my wife won't let me forget I'm part of "the Phil Collins set"1, let's lean into it and say this week's musical theme is Against All Odds. #PerlWeeklyChallenge #raku #perl #python #elixir

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Wondering about #SyntaxHighlighting in #VScodium:

Is #Perl’s #TemplateToolkit actually TT in HTML or HTML in TT? 🤔

See comment for example.

TT code embedded into HTML/…
HTML/… snippets in TT code
Poll ends at .
#Perl @PerlWChallenge 367 Max Odd Binary and Conflict Events https://wlmb.github.io/2026/03/30/PWC367/
#noxp
Perl Weekly Challenge 367.

Max Odd Binary and Conflict Events

#Perl @PerlWChallenge 367 Task 2: Conflict Events
#noxp
```
perl -E '
$d=1440;for(@ARGV){@m=map{($h,$m)=split":";60*$h+$m}split" ";do{$m[$_+1]
+=$d if$m[$_]>$m[$_+1]}for(0,2);say"$_ -> ",c(0,@m)||c($d,@m)||c(-$d,@m)?
"T":"F";}sub c($o,@m){$m[0]+$o<$m[3]&&$m[1]+$o>$m[2]}
' "10:00 12:00 11:00 13:00" "09:00 10:30 10:30 12:00" "14:00 15:30 14:30 16:00" \
"08:00 09:00 09:01 10:00" "23:30 00:30 00:00 01:00"
```
#Perl @PerlWChallenge 367 Task 1: Max Odd Binary
#noxp
```
perl -E '
for(@ARGV){$i=$_;1 while s/01/10/g;s/^1(.*)$/${1}1/; say "$i -> $_"}
' 1011 100 111000 0101 1111
```

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A feature about how to handle harhref keys when querying a table.