lichtkind

• Website: www.lichtkind.de/
• About: Kephra, Articles, Books, Perl, Programming

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• Commented on Finally fixed a two-decade bug in my File::Finder CPAN module
  Hooray!...
• Posted new GTC Architecture to lichtkind

  Graphic::Toolkit::Color 1.9 brought several big new features which I will write about when 2.0 comes out - just to sum up what changed since 1.0. This time I want to describe the internal changes, since this release completed an…

• Commented on Remembering Matt Trout
  I knew him IRL and he did actually listen. Yes he could be erratic at times, but there is no need to be mean now. Just recheck CPAN to see his output, DBIx::Class, Moose and Catalyst, which yes he did...
• Posted Raku Quiz to lichtkind

  At the latest German Perl Workshop I held a 40 min beginner- to mid level talk about Raku (slides). It was about the habits of Perl programmers that turn contra productive…

• Posted Julia in cruiser mode to lichtkind

  

  Yes, this is a Mandelbrot fractal with three heads. No cloning needed, just multiply z to the power of four and proceed as usual. Well all this a…

• Posted Reaching 1.0 to lichtkind

  With the Harmonograph you can create beautiful and individual images within a few clicks. It's painting by pendulum. I already gave here an

• Commented on Polishing the T-urtle
  In other words, yes its plannend but will be an other program and maybe not written in Perl....
• Commented on Polishing the T-urtle
  Thank You so very much Saif. What you ask for would be the next step but currently beyond the scope of the app since there will come some similar apps (reworking the Harmonograph currently)....
• Posted Polishing the T-urtle to lichtkind

  Cellgraph 0.7 is out. (I introduced it here and there.) And I will tell you about the great new…

• Posted Good File Structure to lichtkind

  I know, thinking about where to put what in a code file sounds lame to most artisan hero's that fly by intuition, but I find it actually helpful. Here my article about it on dev.to and you can tell its written with Perl in mind. I…

• 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.

  ="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:

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• 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:

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• 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

Comment Threads

• 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…

• Brett Estrade commented on Automatic Art

  NKS ftw! Awesome work.

• Rosellyne Worrall commented on Remembering Matt Trout

  I’m going to assume good faith on your part. I told my truth, and you told yours. It would be hypocritical of me to delete your own little Dark Tea-Time of the Soul moment, and I’ll meet you with the same acceptance Matt and I offered one another.

  But I am curious: what were you hoping to accomplish by sharing that here? Surely you’re aware that dismissing my lived personal experience, being gleeful about the circumstances of Matt’s death, and attempting to insult the people who cared about him doesn't bring us closer to the friendliness in the Perl community you say you want…

• Dean commented on Remembering Matt Trout

  I met him twice at perl conferences. My experience wasn't noteworthy but at the same time I didn't make any attempt beyond asking some follow up questions from his talk.

  I admired that he claimed to run NetBSD on both his laptop and workstation - although that webpage likely was out of date long ago.

  Nevertheless his reputation for both productivity and anti-social behaviour was well known. I know people who know him very well, and I know even more people who have been deeply offended by him.

  His legacy in code lives on in CPAN and in the systems that run that code …