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PWC 311 Why do you build me up just to let me down?

Another Perl Weekly Challenge, number 311 in a series of, as far as I can tell, infinity. We're gonna change some cases; we're gonna build some groups and tear them down. While we do it, we'll be sing...

09.03.2025 0 Read More

Perl 🐪 Weekly #711 - Obfuscating Perl

Originally published at Perl Weekly 711Hi there!As you might know I used to teach Perl and helped companies using Perl. Unfortunately, in the last couple of years only a few companies asked for my hel...

10.03.2025 0 Read More

Perl 🐪 Weekly #719 - How do you deal with the decline?

Originally published at Perl Weekly 719Hi there!It is no secret that there are less and less jobs that are for 'Perl developers'. I still see many job posts that mention Perl, but those are mostly cas...

05.05.2025 0 Read More

How to Sort Names in a Perl Hash of Anonymous Hashes

In this article, we'll explore how to extract and sort names stored in a hash of anonymous hashes in Perl. This is a common scenario for Perl developers when dealing with structured data.Understanding...

06.05.2025 0 Read More

Time to see what is in the boxes

Weekly Challenge 312 Each week Mohammad S. Anwar sends out The Weekly Challenge, a chance for all of us to come up with solutions to two weekly tasks. My solutions are written in Python first...

16.03.2025 0 Read More

Perl 🐪 Weekly #712 - RIP Zefram

Originally published at Perl Weekly 712Hi thereWe lost, Zefram, a very respectable and prolific contributor to Perl core. The sad news was shared on P5P. He was a regular attendee of the London Perl W...

17.03.2025 0 Read More

Programming as text creation

I am a philologist and I need to write texts: scientific papers, popularization articles. But sometimes I want to write code. I often treat code as natural language texts. Just as sometimes you want t...

20.03.2025 0 Read More

PWC 312 Time to be random

Weekly Challenge 312 is here. 312 is the telephone area code in and around Chicago. Once upon a time, when I dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime in my prime, it was my area code, but then we ran ou...

20.03.2025 0 Read More

Broken letters

Weekly Challenge 313 Each week Mohammad S. Anwar sends out The Weekly Challenge, a chance for all of us to come up with solutions to two weekly tasks. My solutions are written in Python first...

23.03.2025 0 Read More

Create a static mirror of your DEV blog

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, Hacke...