Sebastian Willert

• About: Programming Perl 5 in Emacs for over a decade, blogging since a few minutes. Expect tidbits about both technologies here (if at all, I'm not too sure I can develop a blogging habit).

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• Commented on Social diagnostics
  P.S: evidence for most of the claims on social interaction I have made will be made available on request. Digging through the resources I have available to reference the particular studies regarding the point at hand would easily have taken...
• Commented on Social diagnostics
  @Matt: How would you suppose we should go about calling out potential offensive or alienating behavior in our culture? As male specimen of the human race (that's me, you and Joe) we will never be able to fully understand how...
• Posted Using Dist::Zilla to extract parts of your distribution to Irreverential Interventions

  Imagine you are working on a smallish Catalyst project with an DBIx::Class model. You have been …

• Posted First steps with App::Mist to Irreverential Interventions

  My last posting seems to have whet the appetite of a few people, or at least interested one or two enough to follow this project on GitHub. Today I'd like to delve deeper into how you can use ="podlin…

• Commented on How I manage the distribution of Perl5 projects
  @mpeters: This is more or less exactly what I am aiming for but with much less hassle on the one and local::lib on the other hand. What I have on CPAN works very well for me to achieve this, it...
• Posted How I manage the distribution of Perl5 projects to Irreverential Interventions

  If you are working like me (which is unlikely) distributing and deploying your Perl5 projects poses a significant challenge. Managing self-contained projects has become vastly easier since the advent of ="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?local%3A…

• Commented on Converting Module::Install prereqs to Dist::Zilla with elisp
  No, I haven't stumbled upon it. Seems like a great tool....
• Posted Converting Module::Install prereqs to Dist::Zilla with elisp to Irreverential Interventions
  After half a day of yak-shaving that started with having to port yet another Makefile.PL to the dist.ini format, I am now finally able to post this small snippet of elisp code to blogs.perl.org from within emacs (more on that later):

Comment Threads

• Peter Rabbitson commented on Social diagnostics

  It is funny you used perl as the base for your metaphor. I would like to extend it a little further with these questions:

  • Do you believe it is acceptable to change perl to have warnings enabled by default without an explicit request? By extension do you believe it is acceptable to issue warnings across the board[1] of our rather diverse and very darkpan-like community?
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• tinita commented on Social diagnostics

  Regarding patronizing/protecting:

  Like I have mentioned elsewhere: we recently had a discussion in our german perl forum. It was about something that is typical for the german language (male and female job titles, a problem that does not exist in the english language).
  The discussion seemed very aggressive to me - from the direction of the guys (and the anonymous trolls who didn't want to tell their gender).
  More or less regularly we two female moderators are criticized, and usually in this criticism the gender is emphasized, and usually a concrete reason for criticism is…

• Matt S Trout (mst) commented on Social diagnostics

  Swillert wrote:
  

  By calling it out for being offensive and/or alienating.

  As Joe said - "I didn't, and don't, want to see it either." Neither do I.

  If you believe that members of a particular group are being offended by something but you aren't ... first look into yourself and ask why you aren't offended too.

  Disliking gross sexualisation because gross sexualisation is horrible works out well, it just requires us to stop and think and realise …