Vegan Tater Tot Hot Dish Recipe
When my great-grandmother was growing up in the Outer Lumbago Republic she’d often … Just kidding. Here’s the recipe without twenty paragraphs of irrelevant SEO-optimizing blather: Ingredients Olive...
View ArticlePlease Test the Tidyall Trial Release
Yesterday I released a trial version of Code-Tidyall. This version contains a change based on a PR by Kenneth Ölwing that (I hope) prevent tidyall from munging line endings when it processes a file....
View ArticleBreaking Changes to My Perl CI Helpers Project Incoming
I’m working on what I plan to be the next version of my Perl CI Helpers project and it will break any existing use of said project. Fortunately, I’ve been tagging releases and you can easily pin your...
View ArticleI Weigh Way Less
Added on 2020-02-12: For reference , I’m 6’7″ (200cm). I added BMI numbers whenever I mention my weight to clarify this. Don’t worry, I’m not promoting anything. I have no diet plan or supplements to...
View ArticleTales of the Plague Times
If I had grandchildren … GC: “Grandpa, tell us about the plague times of 2020.”Me: “Well, I guess you’re finally old enough to hear the real story of what we lived through. It was a dark, dark time. I...
View ArticleDocker Image Tags Aren’t Enough
As part of my ci-perl-helpers project I generate a whole bunch of Docker images. Specifically, every time I push to a branch (including master) or a tag, I make 96 images. There is one base image and...
View ArticleThe Real Dirt on Tidyall
Sorry, couldn’t resist the pun. First, a bit of background. Tidyall (aka Code::TidyAll) was first released in June of 2012 by Jon Swartz. It’s a code quality meta-tool that orchestrates other code...
View ArticlePredictions for 2020
One of my favorite bloggers, Scott Alexander of Slate Star Codex, regularly publishes predictions for the year. Here are his predictions for 2020. I thought it’d be fun to make some predictions of my...
View ArticleComparing Code Quality Meta Tools
What’s a code quality meta tool? It’s a tool that lets you orchestrate many linting and formatting tools to operate on an entire project which may contain many languages. Examples include tidyall...
View ArticleIntroduction to Go at TPRCiC 2020
I will be offering my Introduction to Go class at this year Perl & Raku Conference in the Cloud. The cost is just $50, with all proceeds going to The Perl Foundation. You can register for this...
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