Saif

• Website: github.com/saiftynet
• About: An Orthopaedic Surgeon, A Tissue Engineering Scientist, Lecturer, (and Hobbyist Programmer, Electronics Engineer and Roboticist)

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• Commented on An introduction to App::ModuleBuildTiny part 2: authoring
  Didn't work for me for some reason. My distro generated contains only the base module and none of the other helper modules. It doesn't seem to generate the Readme from the pod in the module either....
• Commented on An introduction to App::ModuleBuildTiny part 2: authoring
  Thanks Leon, looks really easy. How does one go about including all the other associated modules? Say I am creating a distro in the domain CAD which contains OpenSCAD.pm which also needs other modules in a sub-folder called OpenSCAD. e.g....
• Posted 3D Object Scripting using OpenSCAD and Perl to Saif

  Control. That’s what we all desire and very rarely acquire. The natural restlessness that occurs when you watch one of your offspring flicking from one movie title to the next, barely glancing at the summary before rejecting it, is one of the reasons I don’t like family movie night. …

• Commented on Polishing the T-urtle
  Fascinating Herbert. The question I have to ask is that are these animations or do they achieve a steady state quickly? I can imagine these images transform in a hypnotic way; I will have to try them out...thanks!...
• Commented on Objective Decisions
  LOL, Mrs Saif wants a version upgrade from me too...but really it isn't that traumatic. Her being upset comes from a good place. As do things that go in the Perl community. We have all different wants and needs, and...
• Commented on Objective Decisions
  Agreed. Obvious after the event for me, and being a cheapskate, I got some cheap equivalents of Airtags. The "GPS" thing only appears to work as a "last location when connected" and not while (possibly) travelling in a bunch of...
• Posted Objective Decisions to Saif

  Prioritisation of Panic

  Let me start off by asking the folk on this platform one question. Imagine a scenario that you had lost something important with multiple potential negative consequences. For instance losing a bunch of keys including your car keys, your house keys, your changing r…

• Commented on Repository of examples using Perl and Assembly together
  This is amazing Chris, I never knew this was possible. Thanks! Looking forward to more examples please....
• Posted Justifying Embarrassing Errors. to Saif

  I remember when one one of my grandchildren helpfully decided reorganise a bookshelf whilst by himself. Upon being discovered, sitting in front of an empty shelf with books strewn all around him, his instinctive reaction made me feel proud to be his grandpa. He looked up and said, “Oh…

• Posted Making time to waste. to Saif

  Over the years that I have existed in four dimensions, I have come to accept that time is not a linear concept heading inexorably in one direction at a uniform rate. It didn't take an Einstein or Hawking to convince me either. Time is as malleable as the distortions applied by our consciousness,…

• Commented on Making a Super Cal if Rage Will Stick Ex Paella Down Us
  It really has been fascinating learning for me. To think that astronomers detected a difference in consecutive years of less that 0.1% centuries ago, and compensate for it is amazing. The maths is the clever bit. I am planning to...
• Posted Making a Super Cal if Rage Will Stick Ex Paella Down Us to Saif

  Something I am not good at

  The paella must be possibly the worst national dish ever created, I thought to myself as I looked at the charred remains in my pan. It is as if the mind of some ancient Spanish conquistador, returned from his conquests abroad feeling hungry and unfulfilled, dr…

• Commented on No One Is Immune to Abuse
  Look we all live in together and interact with each other. I grew up, went to school, in North Yorkshire in the the 70s. People were blunt, outwardly racist, and I had experienced hurtful abuse from strangers, friends and rarely...
• Commented on When Saif Met Sarah
  LOL none of us look like our avatars in real life. Look forward to f2f interactions in the future!...
• Commented on Matching simply
  Nice, looks ideal for Olaf's advent calendar....
• Commented on When Saif Met Sarah
  It was great meeting you too. Looking forward to future encounters, and thanks for your advice....
• Posted When Saif Met Sarah to Saif

  The Perl and Raku Conference 2023

  The Perl and raku Conference 2023 in Toronto was an event I was really looking forward to. A chance to rub shoulders with the giants of Perl and Raku, absorb insights and innovations of the nerdy Perly community...everything they said in the blurb. It w…

• Posted Inevitable Improbabilities to Saif

  Guys anything can happen. There is literally no way of avoiding something that you haven’t prepared for. So in the face of mounting anxiety over the huge number of unexpected scenarios that may be around the corner, what can you do? You can contemplate insulating yourself, try and…

• Commented on Using Perl to prepare sequencing files to submit to NCBI's GEO
  Looks very useful and time saving, well done ... is it worth submitting this as a module perhaps to BioPerl?...
• Posted My Family and Other Fish (PerlayStation Part 2) to Saif

  Faced with any problem, there are many potential approaches. This, I have realised, is amply illustrated by the members of my own family, further reinforcing the educational value of having one. I shall anonymise them for my own protection, and as a disclaimer also state that everything I say…

• Commented on Regexp Delimiters
  A neat idea, thanks for this, and the handy tip regarding the use of "'" as a delimiter. Illustrates how such flexibility can make code easier to read or more difficult, depending on the intentions of the coder....
• Commented on Benchmarking Rakudo releases. Is Raku Still slow?
  This is great, I would suggest reposting at every pre-release...because that is the time one can scrutinise the changes ad address them to prevent continuous degradation. Features get added that inevitably impacts the performance. identification of performance bottlenecks are better...
• Commented on Keeping Your Valuables Under Lock and Key
  Thought provoking, thanks....
• Posted Done before, Done better, Done again differently. to Saif

  A Fool's Errand, and Quantum Theory

  It is my firm belief that every thought or idea that you or I have, has been had before. On the balance of statistics, the chances are that those that had these ideas handled it better, and have developed more powerful utilities to exploit these inno…

• Commented on Automatic Art
  These are beautiful Herbert, well done! The more you look at these images, the more you imagine faces, people etc. Are you thinking of adding colour?...
• Posted PerlayStation Games Console (Part 1) to Saif

  Itchy fingers

  A few reddit posts ago I saw an interesting article about maze generation and game written in Perl. Game development, I fully believe, is key to intellectual engagement, provides amusement to developers and non developers, and highlights the capabilities of a programming l…

• Posted Spoken like a 1980s chip to Saif

  In the beginning

  In the beginning there was light. Of course there was, but a bang must have followed shortly after. It is not unexpected that the communication between organisms, surrounded by a fluid whether it is air or water, is primarily acoustic rather than visual. While vision r…

• Commented on Casting Perls before Splines
  Great to see two greats of the Perl world appreciating my distorted perspectives. If only Mrs Saif would......
• Posted Casting Perls before Splines to Saif

  As I sit pondering my peas at the dinner table, my thoughts are unnaturally drawn to the that "For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls". From these green orbs on my plate, the mind drifts to a rec…

• Commented on Types, Objects, and Systems, Oh my!
  What an excellent thought provoking article, on yet another OOP paradigm. Nice work, Al....

Comment Threads

• Brett Estrade commented on Objective Decisions

  People who work on things people actually want or need tend to get the feedback. I think that's pretty obvious Object::Pad and Perl OO in general is not interesting and nobody is clammoring for it. It's a solved problem, meanwhile things like "any", "all", and other properly idiomatic things that move Perl forward is of great interest. Meanwhile, people are trying to cause repeated trauma or PTSD to the Perl community by way of YET ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO CHANGE THE PERL VERSIONING. Whatever trauma Mrs. Saif inflicts on you, it is peanuts compared to the trauma some people inflict on the silent…

• davebaker commented on Objective Decisions

  Thanks for sharing! Well written, interesting.

  You’re finding something that makes Perl more pleasurable to use. You’re concerned with Perl’s usage declining. Unless you’re the only one in the world who would experience this pleasure, it’s well worth our time to read about it. Making Perl more fun to use could generate more Perl users. Who knew?

  Keep a-going!

• lichtkind 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).

• lichtkind commented on Polishing the T-urtle

  In other words, yes its plannend but will be an other program and maybe not written in Perl.

• Leon Timmermans commented on An introduction to App::ModuleBuildTiny part 2: authoring

  Thanks Leon, looks really easy. How does one go about including all the other associated modules? Say I am creating a distro in the domain CAD which contains OpenSCAD.pm which also needs other modules in a sub-folder called OpenSCAD. e.g.

  You can just create those files, they'll be picked up automatically on

  mbtiny regenerate