blogs.perl.org

Happy Friday, this is my first hand experience with AWS Bedrock.
Please check out the link for more information:
https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/aws-bedrock

All three of us attended.

• Release blocker triage yielded no new blockers. We followed up on the issues we were already tracking.
• The security release made some progress this week, but has been held up by the lack of a perldelta entry.

[P5P posting of this summary]

Over the past year, I’ve been self-studying XS and have now decided to share my learning journey through a series of blog posts. This fourth post introduces you to overloading operators in XS.

Parenting aint easy. Certainly it is often something your kids teach you. Even worse, it often starts with ”<INSERT_KIDS_FRIENDS_NAME>’s dad lets him do <INSERT_CURRENTLY_PROHIBITED_ACTIVITY>”. In this constant battle to shape your offspring into a model citizen, with the values you value, and turning him/her into a self-sustaining organism, one applies tools that enhance particular features, remove the superfluous or the undesirable.

Here we go: Download me

All three of us attended.

• Release blocker triage continues. Several more blockers have been resolved. We identified no blockers among new tickets but did consider #23346 and may ship it even if we do not consider it a blocker.
• We discussed some feedback regarding the fix for CVE-2025-40909 and requested that the patch be amended. A perldelta entry is also missing before we can ship the security releases.
• We discussed who will do then stable release and when. RC1 will be published by Philippe Bruhat on June 20th.
• We went over the scalar-context pair constructor proposal. Changing the fat arrow in general is out of the question and we don’t think any other proposal is likely to work.
• We went over the 2-arg open proposal. It seems mostly trivial to do and worthwhile as well, but the real complexity is in the implicit open done by readline. We will outline our thoughts on the thread.

[P5P posting of this summary]

Continue with the blog series, in this post, I am talking about AWS KMS Encryption.
Please check out the link for more information:
https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/aws-kms-encryption

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 and so much more contains the latest release of Juliagraph 0.7. Intro here. All I wrote about the Cellgraph and Harmonograph applies again, more features, better controls and ... you can cruise the fractal by mouse.

One of my pleasures in perl is learning the C language again. Something about the perl language makes it easier to write C, but while sharing the same space in my brain.

So how can I write a trivial program to write exactly one GB (2^30) of data to disk?

first in perl- (Of course you prototype in perl!)

But since my c program is cleaner, here’s the C program

Lots has been going on. All of us showed up, though Aristotle had to join late and Philippe had to leave early, so the meeting was short but productive:

• We continued with the potential release blocker issue review and finished going over all 49 issues remaining at this time, of which we identified 11 of interest. There are now still 72 pull requests to review.
• We agreed to include the new Perl logo in the next release, but don’t yet know exactly how and where. That should be sorted out on p5p, and we will kick that off soon.
• We went over the latest point release news, where everything is finally on track. It is coming very soon.

[P5P posting of this summary]

AWS S3 Encryption isn't as complex as I thought initially. I had fun playing with it. You can give it a try too. Please check out the link below for more information.
https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/aws-s3-encryption

With the Harmonograph you can create beautiful and individual images within a few clicks. It's painting by pendulum. I already gave here an introduction. So let me just explain what is new:

My home page gives you access to:

o Perl TiddlyWiki V 1.25
o Mojolicious TiddlyWiki V 1.03
o Debian TiddlyWiki V 1.07
o Some other stuff...

All three of us attended.

• We discussed the situation with readline and the filehandle error flag once again, starting over by revisiting the basic premise of the error flag. We think we now have a better understanding the overall situation, and this led us to a different approach about how to correct the overall situation, which we will outline as a proposal soon.
• We have been wanting to revert #22465 but wanted to include a testcase that demonstrates why, which we hadn’t gotten to. In order to get this into the looming final dev release, we talked through what the testcase needs to look like, and will submit a pull request ASAP.
• We caught up on new issues and pull requests for release blocker triage. We then reviewed the state of our current release blockers, some of which have been resolved, and one of which (#23026) we demoted based on our new understanding about the readline situation.

[P5P posting of this summary]

What's new?

• The BoolLike type constraint accepts boolean.pm booleans.
• Type::Params offers some improvements for DWIM named parameter processing.
• More shortcuts are provided for exporting parameterized versions of type constraints.

An introduction to newbie in Perl.
Please checkout the post for more information:
https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/welcome-to-perl

I started using DEV at the suggestion of Perl Weekly, and I was quite pleased with it - until I discovered that links to dev.to are effectively "shadowbanned" on several major platforms (Reddit, Hacker News, etc.). Posts containing DEV URLs would simply not be shown to users, making it impossible to share content effectively.

To work around this, I thought I would need a way to publish my DEV articles on my own domain so I could freely share them. There are some DEV tutorials out there that explain how to consume the API using frontend frameworks like React, however I don't enjoy frontend at all and I did not want to spend much time on that.

My solution was to get a simple Perl script that builds static versions of the articles, along with an index page. A Perl 5 script will run anywhere, including an old shared linux hosting account I still keep on IONOS, and I really like the speed of static sites.

We were all present.

• The status of smartmatch came up. It is in a weird position where it used to be part of the language, then was retroactively declared an experiment, then deprecated and slated for removal, and now it’s no longer being removed – in fact we’ve added a feature for it, and not an experimental one either. The bottom line is that it’s not deprecated any more and not experimental either, but is now just a negative feature like indirect and multidimensional: it’s a mistake we made that will remain part of older language versions but will not be included in future feature bundles.
• Release blocker triage continues as ever. Quite a few new issues came in recently, of which we identified two issues and one pull request as blockers. One of the issues and the PR pertain to the documentation of the status of smartmatch; we expect that there may be more inconsistencies in the documentation which will need to be ironed out.

[P5P posting of this summary]

Over the past year, I’ve been self-studying XS and have now decided to share my learning journey through a series of blog posts. This third post introduces you to list context in XS.

Please find my learning experience in the post below:
https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/terraform-docker