I had a great and very productive time working on MetaCPAN at this year's Perl Toolchain Summit. I've posted the full report here.

Recently at $work we were discussing some of the behaviours of WWW::Mechanize when submitting forms. For instance, when you pass the fields parameter to the submit_form() method, Mechanize might take a very lax approach to submitting your data.

I've discussed some ways to make your useragent more secure and easier to debug. The whole article is at http://www.olafalders.com/2018/04/…

Last year I found myself working on some Go code at $work. When I'm trying to pick up constructs in a new language, I find it helpful to see how I would have done the same things in Perl. This sheet is far from complete, but I think it's already helpful. You can find it at https://github.com/oalders/go-for-perl-hackers. Comments, critique and pull requests are welcome. I've already had some helpful feedback via Twitter which I've incorporated.

As an aside, I did this a long back for ="https://github.com/oalders/o…