Dan Muey

• Website: metacpan.org/author/DMUEY
• About: I ♥ perl

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• Commented on Developing A Game Engine with Perl : Part 2 - Mouse Input
  This was fun :)...
• Commented on Developing A Game Engine with Perl: Part 5 - 32bit -> 64bit & Perl's Storable
  Yeah storable isn’t portable. If you really need a binary format CBOR is the current hotness as; it’s essentially a binary version of JSON....
• Commented on Developing A Game Engine with Perl
  Cool 👍...
• Commented on Using Perlbrew after macOS Mojave 10.14 update
  Thanks Nico for taking the time and posting this!!! I am sure this will save a lot of folks a lot of time, definitely will for me ;)...
• Commented on Fancy a Game of (Code) Golf?
  very cool idea. and “heathens” lol :)...
• Commented on Please don't use ::Tiny unless it meets the ::Tiny criteria, thanks!
  Thanks, I don’t want to call anyone out, I just want to try to increase awareness and promote some consistency and best practice....
• Commented on Please don't use ::Tiny unless it meets the ::Tiny criteria, thanks!
  > Not sure how practical the suggestion to rename those modules would be. There was a nice talk about not being afraid to rename a module if its name doesn’t fit anymore, so it isn’t as taboo or difficult as...
• Commented on Please don't use ::Tiny unless it meets the ::Tiny criteria, thanks!
  Exactly! Its being used willy nilly without regard for what it specifically means to be ::Tiny. For example, if I am doing a module that meets some of the criteria but not all, I wouldn’t call it ::Tiny, I’d call...
• Commented on Please don't use ::Tiny unless it meets the ::Tiny criteria, thanks!
  Perhaps we can bump it up, maybe Adam will agree? still the principle of being able to be used in old perls is really great!...
• Posted Please don't use ::Tiny unless it meets the ::Tiny criteria, thanks! to Dan Muey

  Don’t get me wrong, I really, really, really appreciate effort put into making something as small and efficient as possible.

  However, it seems like we have a recent trend of using ::Tiny for things that do not meet the actual criteria of ::Tiny.

  That is bad because seein…

• Posted using Race::Condition to help track/test, well, race conditions ... to Dan Muey

  Knock Knock. Race::Condition. Who’s there?

  Race conditions are a fact of life. What can we do when one knocks upon our door?

  Often we mark race conditions that are not immediately solvable with a comment:

Comment Threads

• Ether commented on Please don't use ::Tiny unless it meets the ::Tiny criteria, thanks!

  > Maybe make a Dist::Zilla plugin to test for it all?

  https://metacpan.org/pod/Dist::Zilla::Plugin::OnlyCorePrereqs can check for one part of it. [Test::MinimumVersion] can test for another.
  

• Herveus commented on Using Perlbrew after macOS Mojave 10.14 update

  I got bit by this, too. It's not Mojave, per se, but XCode 10, in which libgcc has been removed.

  I'll have to look at this more closely when I get home to apply the fixes.

• Shawn Holland commented on Developing A Game Engine with Perl

  Thanks, glad you like it! Cheers :) Check out Part 2.

• Shawn Holland commented on Developing A Game Engine with Perl: Part 5 - 32bit -> 64bit & Perl's Storable

  Awesome! Thanks Dan. I'm reading up on CBOR now. Do you have any specific CPAN Module suggestions? Cheers!

• Shawn Holland commented on Developing A Game Engine with Perl : Part 2 - Mouse Input

  Glad you enjoyed reading Dan. Cheers!