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• About: I read blogs about Perl.

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• Commented on Announcing Dancer2 1.0.0
  This is awesome....
• Commented on Increasing Perl’s Visibility, Redux
  This is great, Toby. Kudos....
• Commented on TPF launches merch store for Perl 5
  The "Raptor logo" is not the _real_ Perl logo; everybody knows that is a camel. The raptor is a Mojo creation. This is just weakening the brand. Also, it's sowing confusion to have PERL in capital letters given how much...
• Commented on Essence of Perl Text Processing - Perl Book
  Great job!...
• Commented on A Perl Community Dashboard
  Great idea ++...
• Posted Who you gonna call? Perl client and website for Google Civic Information API to 1nickt

  I recently became aware of a very cool service provided by the Google. The Civic Information API provides contact information for all elected representatives (from head of state down to municipal official) for any US address.

  I …

• Commented on The Perl Community - a mixed bag of sometimes intollerance and sometimes fantastic help
  The Perl channels on IRC have been dominated by one super-active and energetic and brilliant and obnoxious individual for some time. The experience you describe has been the standard for a decade, and before that, it was already the standard...
• Commented on CPAN6 Is Here
  Hi, can you please explain how a CPAN user shall tell the difference between a Perl module and a "Perl6" module? What prevents a Perl user from installing -- or even downloading -- a "Perl6" module from CPAN?...
• Posted I want my, I want my Kwa-li-tee to 1nickt

  If you publish code to CPAN, you've probably noticed the steady improvement in its entire ecosystem over the last couple of years. ++Neil Bowers and ++the meta::cpan core hackers in particular have laboured tirelessly to improve…

• Commented on Log::Any - Now With Structured Logging
  Thanks for the comprehensive reply ++...
• Commented on Log::Any - Now With Structured Logging
  Hi, the context feature seems like it might be quite useful. (I'm not sure I see the value of passing structured data since you can already do that with debugf(), infof(), etc...) I wonder if there's any chance of getting...

Comment Threads

• spb commented on A Perl Community Dashboard

  Can you measure use of tags like 'perl' on common blogging and other techie platforms such as dev.to and Stackoverflow?

• Yuki Kimoto commented on Essence of Perl Text Processing - Perl Book

  Thank you.

  In Japan 2021-07-05, This book is Amazon Web Programming ranking #2.
  

• Dean commented on TPF launches merch store for Perl 5

  TPF doesnt own a camel logo, it only owns the Onion logo and as of the last few weeks the Camelia logo for Raku.

  https://dev.to/thibaultduponchelle/the-perl-complex-topic-of-logos-3161

  https://neilb.org/2020/12/04/perl-and-camels.html

  https://www.perlfoundation.org/trademarks.html

  The Camel image on O'Reilly books is owned by them and they have a tradem…

• Aristotle commented on TPF launches merch store for Perl 5

  The raptor is a Mojo creation.

  Incorrect. All three logos in fact go back to remarks by Larry, including the velociraptor.

  The earliest reference to the velociraptor by Larry that I can find is in Apocalpyse 12, where he only mentions it as a joke. Matt Trout later attributed to him a quote that “perl5 is a velociraptor. What we need now is an acceloraptor” (i.e. Perl 6 (at the time)) – though I am unable to substantiate this…

• BooK commented on Increasing Perl’s Visibility, Redux

  Centralization is good for things like CPAN, MetaCPAN and docs. One already knows they're looking for Perl things.

  Blogging reaches more eyes that were not necessarily looking for Perl things if decentralized (or if somewhat centralized on a few platforms non-specific to Perl).

  For modules and frameworks, I haven't made up my mind yet, but having an easily generated static web site built from the actual module documentation definitely can't hurt.