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  • Posted Brain Memory Management to lichtkind

    My next dev article about the important concept of cognitive load of code and how to manage it.

  • Commented on System Thinking
    Thank you brian, but I was not yet brave enough to jump into reddit....
  • Posted System Thinking to lichtkind

    I started to also post on dev.to and will post there mostly about topics larger than Perl : psychology of programming, software engineering and alike.

  • Posted Hai Julia ! to lichtkind

    I released Juliagraph an interactive fractal painter for Julia and Mandelbrot types of fractal.

    first.png="60…

  • Posted Single Color Methods of GTC to lichtkind

    Whohoo release 1.7 (and 1.6) brought a thorough architectural rewrite, new color spaces (HSV, HWB, YIQ), new formats ([named] array, string and css_string), choosable value ranges, …

  • Posted GTC API (how to design a rich interface) to lichtkind

    After written about the origin and goals of Graphics::Toolkit::Color -- let's take a look at the public methods and make it a little…

  • Posted Why YACM (yet another color module) ? to lichtkind

    At the recent YAPC::EU (still running) I gave a talk about my latest CPAN module: Graphics::Toolkit::Color (in short GTC - v1.53). It went a little out of hand and even worse: some…

  • Posted Color Evolution to lichtkind

    The most requested feature of the Cellgraph is now in operation: Colors.

    I added one panel with all the options and functions to control them. It is…

  • Commented on Automatic Art
    Thank you Saif, yes that what I meant by the last paragraph of this post. Changable Colors (using Graphics::Toolkit::Color ofc) and more complex mobility (action rules). And Pro Tip: if you draw greater PNG, more cells will be computed....
  • Posted Automatic Art to lichtkind

    After the Harmonograph (which got in the meantime greatly extended), I got another tool for you to create art with - the Cellgraph:

    GUIglobal.png="https://blogs.perl.org/users…

  • Posted Kephra: goto (last) edit to lichtkind

    Welcome to my musings: how editing should be (aimed to all users of an editor as food for thought). After select all I will today choose as feature of the day: goto edit (Strg+E) by which I mean…

  • Posted Kephra: Select All to lichtkind

    To continue my previous post about Kephra, please let me ramble about just one seemingly little feature. It is interesting in its own right - but also an example for the design principles I employ:

    1…

  • Commented on Return of Kephra
    on CPAN , thanks for question, we had a web page but not currently...
  • Posted Return of Kephra to lichtkind

    Juhuu, released Kephra 0.401 in the spirit release early - release often. It is the start of a complete rewrite. So it's back to zero: now it can only edit one file at a time and has only Perl highlighting and UTF-8 or ASCII encoding. But some of you will still want to use it (beside vi, emacs,…

  • Posted The deep, the shallow and the ugly (classes) to lichtkind

    Previously I showed parts of the API of my new module Graphics::Toolkit::Color. This time I want to mention some bits about the code base, which demonstrate what I tried to say

  • Posted Look mom I invented colors to lichtkind

    Just released Graphics::Toolkit::Color for the purpose to create computationally harmonic color pallets (2-3 lines max for most needs). It is in fact a chunk out of

  • Commented on TPF launches merch store for Perl 5
    The raptor is a pun on the badmouthing Perl as old in sense: yes might be older than your language but still kills....
  • Posted course change for Kephra to lichtkind

    Kephra, an editor for programming (mostly Perl) written in WxPerl is my main project since I stumbled into the Perl community. Most people I know already heard of it - but I want to write about a new development that might be helpful for some, which might consider to use it even if it has a very…

  • Posted An artistic tool for programmers. to lichtkind

    I just release App::GUI::Harmonograph for your leisure and pleasure. In case your not not an English noble man form the 18th century who could afford an Harmonograph, even though modern DIY kits are

  • Posted Climbing the Charts (request for feature requests) to lichtkind

    Hurray, released another version of Chart without new features. Actually rewrote the complete

  • Commented on Entering the Charts
    Thank you for spotting this, its fixed now....
  • Posted Entering the Charts to lichtkind

    As part of HalleLeipzig.pm I had my duties to co-organize the recent German Perl Workshop but also the opportunity to give some talks. (Recordings are online [EDIT] now at the CCC video platform). …

  • Commented on In defence of OOP
    Hai guys I'm very happy you liked it and you remember me. I'm preparing next part and also fixed typos and will elaborate already published article here and there so please recheck when next part goes public (end of next...
  • Posted In defence of OOP to lichtkind

    During the last years it became fashionable to rag on object oriented programming and a decade ago I would join the choir. Hack, when I started with Perl I despised the bloat and inefficiency of many corporate smelling *coughjava* systems and preached the light weight and foreward thinking way…

  • Posted KBOS attributes to lichtkind

    Welcome to the fifth post about the Kephra Base Object System, where I explain the need for three kinds of attributes: data, delegating and wrapping and gas a little about their properties. It is especially advised to have read the

  • Posted KBOS methods to lichtkind

    After scopes, types and signatures we got all the…

  • Commented on perlmodules.net remake
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  • Posted KBOS signatures to lichtkind

    There are signatures in Raku, core Perl 5, Moose, Dios and lot of other modules. With KBOS I tried to find out how optimal signatures would look like to me. My objectives…

  • Posted KBOS types to lichtkind

    After introducing KBOS I should write about the most fundamental concept in this Perl syntax extension. In fact it's so basic, you could use it even without objects.

  • Commented on Announcing Zydeco
    Thank you, I'm just curious, because speed is a foremost concern in developing KBOS. Looks like I have to make my own comparative benchmarks....
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