I've been trying to find time to work on parrot-handler, a parrot management tool in the spirit of perlbrew and rvm, for several months now. It's written in Perl 5, and could be very useful indeed. I've just been so busy ...

Well, okay. I've been busy playing World of Warcraft, dabbling with languages that are not based on Parrot, and messing about with my laptop. Oh, and doing work stuff. Still, that's ki…

So it's been over a year since I posted anything here. I've been working on Perl code at a big company, and I've mostly been enjoying myself. It's not easy diving into a large legacy application, especially when you have strong opinions about legacy code. But there are plenty of crunchy problems to sort through.

I'm thinking about dumping more random Perlish thoughts here. My Perl world includes Parrot and Rakudo, so some connections may be tangential at best.