Fav thing this morning, after joining the local library here, an email with a genuine cgi-bin URL and a Perl program on the backend (given the URL ending) still in service! Made my heart sing.

I just saw a malware exploit programmed this year in the #perl programming language. Perl. This year.

At first I thought it might be PHP. But some of the keywords struck me as odd, and it definitely was reading command-line arguments, a feature not regularly on display in PHP as it's geared to web page generation.

Then I thought maybe it's c. But it used object-oriented method accessors and had no header imports.

Perl. Still used in many a Linux and Unix-based distro. And in malware.

Any #Perl devs with #PerlDancer #Dancer2 experience and #PlackTest experience able to give me a debugging hint? An app I’m trying to migrate from Alpine to Debian works as expected on the new image but in the testing context it’s not creating a session from the cookie being sent in the test request.

I am in urgent job search mode, so I'm gonna throw this out here and see if anything comes of it.

I am a #Canadian, fluent in both #English and #French. I have experience with several programming languages. My strongest proficiency is with #Haskell and #C. I also have a reasonable grasp of #HTML, #JavaScript, #SQL, #Python, #Lua, #Linux system administration, #bash scripting, #Perl, #AWK, some #Lisp (common, scheme, and emacs), and probably several others I've forgotten to mention.

I am not necessarily looking for something in tech. I just need something stable. I have done everything from software development, to customer support, to factory work, though my current circumstances make in-person work more difficult than remote work. I have been regarded as a hard worker in every job I have ever held.

I’ve really enjoyed working with @ology on his toolkit for scoring #MIDI #drumming, MIDI-Drummer-Tiny. He’s patiently answered my questions and had the grace to accept my pull requests, most of which haven’t so much added new features as they’ve helped clarify how to use the library successfully.

Gene has helped me get back into the swing of #Perl #programming after months of inactivity, and I’m looking forward to working with him more in the future. I couldn’t have asked for a better collaborator.

Is anyone here intersted in writing an essay about how the effort to migrate from mostly dead and hard to use scricting language to something more appropriate?
If so, I've got a title for you: "Kill the Camel"
#perl

Yesterday: Deployed #perl db-to-api tool https://metacpan.org/pod/WebAPI::DBIC, once for a project where folks now don’t have the “I don’t write Perl” excuse to contribute, and once against #Mobilizon, cos I just give up with #graphql. Now I have to deal with the it’s db schema instead #programming

#SolucionarioDelProgramador #GNU_linux : Bucles en #Perl

#programming #programacion #bucles #loops

https://ibolcode.net/roor/2025-03-bucles-en-perl

As a #Perl programmer this kind of misunderstanding and intolerance is all too familiar. #coding
https://mastodon.social/@abratus/114205735363067363

@dch The script looks up the whois records for the IP addresses and does rudimentary parsing on them to find the abuse emails.
I cleaned up the script barely enough to share it and posted it here:
https://gist.github.com/jikamens/58d67acfd6c45524eaf1f5615627d8e6
I don't know if it'll be particularly useful to anyone else , especially since I wrote it in #Perl and who _does_ that nowadays.

Building the Second-Worst ZX Spectrum Emulator in the World with Perl https://lobste.rs/s/hsmn5t #perl
https://fuzzix.org/building-the-secondworst-zx-spectrum-emulator-in-the-world-with-perl

An article from last year’s #Perl Advent Calendar gave me an idea. As is often the case, that idea spawned other ideas. One of those new ideas raised the question: “How do I get all tram lines and tram stops in Hannover, Germany from #OpenStreetMap?”. Here’s my answer to that question, implemented–because reasons–in #Python.

https://peateasea.de/getting-tram-stops-in-hannover-from-openstreetmap/

I built the second-worst #ZXSpectrum emulator in the world with #Perl

https://fuzzix.org/building-the-secondworst-zx-spectrum-emulator-in-the-world-with-perl

TIL It's entirely possible to make a text-based web browser entirely #Perl, with keyboard shortcuts for navigation

I'm not mature enough to resist the temptation...

Hi, #Today I decided to try to #getfedihired — I've got many years of experience with web development, programming and production (#HTML, #CSS, #Javascript), I can make myself useful in anything on the open-source side of back end, i.e. the #Perl, #Python, #PHP, #MySQL, #Linux kind of area.

I live in #Sydney Australia and would be happy to work in-office, remote or hybrid.

Let me know of any opportunities, or pass this on to anyone else who might know of something? Thanks.