A quick summary of what I got up to at PTS 2026 in Vienna.

Test::Smoke's long-term future. I had several useful discussions with H. Merijn Brand (Tux) and Todd Rinaldo (toddr) about keeping Test::Smoke maintainable for the long term. This tied directly into the MetaCPAN hosting migration below: DigitalOcean offers managed Postgres, Hetzner doesn't, and Test::Smoke's existing database usage wasn't especially efficient. The outcome was toddr starting a rewrite that runs as a single container backed by SQLite and local files -- much more portable and easier to operate…