Mastodawn

Andrew Hewus Fresh 1d ago

Mohammad Sajid Anwar 1d ago

Here’s another information-packed #Perl weekly newsletter, enjoy!
https://perlweekly.com/archive/728.html

Perl Weekly Issue #728 - Perl Conference

Andrew Hewus Fresh 3d ago

eevee 🦊4d ago

down with Whatever https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

The rise of Whatever

This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

Andrew Hewus Fresh 5d ago

MetaCPAN 5d ago

Version 42, subversion 0 of Perl 5 is now available.

https://metacpan.org/release/BOOK/perl-5.42.0

"iPad & iPhone Wallpaper - 42 b" by Patrick Hoesly is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Andrew Hewus Fresh 5d ago

Dave Cross 5d ago

Perl 5.42 was released this afternoon. Perl still has a major release every year (don't believe people who tell you it hasn't changed since Perl 5.0 was released in 1994). This is not your father's Perl.

Release notes - https://metacpan.org/release/BOOK/perl-5.42.0/view/pod/perldelta.pod

perldelta

what is new for perl v5.42.0

MetaCPAN

Andrew Hewus Fresh 5d ago

Feeling extra powerless today.

Andrew Hewus Fresh Jul 2

Combat Unicorn Jul 2

So tired of "Will OpenBSD work well for me?" posts.

There's generally a few things that will rule it out, like wanting it to run Linux apps (or god forbid, windows apps). Other than that? One needs to try it out to know. You're preferences and tolerances are unique to you.

Besides, much of the peanut gallery that will tell you "OpenBSD won't do this or that" are just wrong. They're either years out of date on their information, haven't tried it themselves, or are just making shit up.

Andrew Hewus Fresh Jul 2

Michael Dexter Jul 2

https://www.ghostbsd.org/ghostbsdcon

GhostBSDCon | GhostBSD

Andrew Hewus Fresh Jul 2

Eric Jun 30

I've referenced it enough that now it's all I can hear when I read it. Now you have to hear it too 🙉 https://ericwbailey.website/published/you-must-listen-to-rfc-2119/

You MUST listen to RFC 2119

It turns out you can just pay people to do things.

Andrew Hewus Fresh Jun 29

Mark Gardner Jun 28

#Perl 5.42.0 release candidate 2 is now available for testing!

Download it from CPAN and kick the tires!

What’s new? Quite a bit, including enhancements to the new use feature 'class'; object-oriented #programming system, new any and all operators, and private methods. Plus there’s full support for the Unicode 16.0 standard to support text in all the world’s writing systems.