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Can Others Explain My Work Without Me?(olafalders.com)
1 points by oalders 9mo ago|0 comments
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Oops I just broke Git-bisect(olafalders.com)
3 points by oalders 9mo ago|0 comments
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by oalders 10mo ago
On day 20 of The Perl Advent Calendar Michael Schröder, Tina Müller and Oliver Kurz present how SUSE uses Perl for openQA and the Open Build Service.
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How SUSE Is Using Perl(perladvent.org)
3 points by oalders 10mo ago|1 comments
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by oalders 10mo ago
On day 19 of The Perl Advent Calendar Philippe Bruhat introduces The Underbar, a podcast recording conversations and stories from the Perl community to preserve its history.
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Advent of the Underbar(perladvent.org)
1 points by oalders 10mo ago|1 comments
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The Twelve Slices of Christmas: How Vasco Chained the Chaos(perladvent.org)
1 points by oalders 10mo ago|1 comments
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by oalders 10mo ago
On day 14 of The Perl Advent Calendar Chris Prather continues yesterday's story, revealing how Santa's team used Critical Chain project management alongside No Estimates to identify dependencies and ship NaughtyNice 3.0 on schedul
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Thirty Slices/Twenty-Four Days: How Christmas Was Saved by Abandoning Estimation(perladvent.org)
2 points by oalders 10mo ago|1 comments
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by oalders 10mo ago
On day 13 of The Perl Advent Calendar Chris Prather tells how Santa's workshop rebuilt their NaughtyNice system in 24 days using "No Estimates"—breaking work into daily slices and measuring throughput instead of guessing time
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The Night Before Deployment: How Melian Saved Christmas(perladvent.org)
1 points by oalders 10mo ago|1 comments
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by oalders 10mo ago
On day 12 of The Perl Advent Calendar Sawyer X shows us how Melian, a high-speed in-memory caching server, reduces database query times from milliseconds to microseconds by loading tables into memory. https://perladvent.org/
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Teaching Art to Computers the Hard Way(perladvent.org)
3 points by oalders 10mo ago|1 comments
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by oalders 10mo ago
On day 11 of The Perl Advent Calendar D Ruth Holloway demonstrates how to generate Mondrian-style abstract art paintings using Perl with Moo, Imager, and SVG modules.
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All I Want for Christmas Is the Right Aspect Ratio(perladvent.org)
2 points by oalders 11mo ago|1 comments
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by oalders 11mo ago
On day 2 of the 2025 Perl Advent Calendar, Dave Cross walks us through how Pixie the Elf uses App::BlurFill to change the aspect ratio of an image. https://perladvent.org/2025/2025-12-02.html
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by oalders 11mo ago
This is year 26 of The Perl Advent Calendar. \o/
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by oalders 1y ago
Thank you for sharing this. I am always looking for more sponsors. I'm also happy just to make new connections.
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DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation v2025(perl.com)
180 points by oalders 1y ago|45 comments
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Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation(perl.com)
179 points by oalders 1y ago|69 comments
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My Guilty Perl Obsession(perl.com)
9 points by oalders 1y ago|0 comments
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Micro-management by proxy: reflections on generative AI in the workplace(morungos.com)
2 points by oalders 1y ago|0 comments
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by oalders 1y ago
:) Working on the fundraising has been a fun and challenging project. Perl is still quite useful and it's often somewhere in the stack, even if organizations don't openly talk about it. Finding these orgs is part of the fun.
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by oalders 1y ago
This is 100% correct. My current strategy is to locate 10-15 sponsors at 10k per year so that we can secure the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. Donors can, of course, always commit to more. I can be reached via olaf@perlfoundation.org and als
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SUSE Donates USD 11,500 to the Perl and Raku Foundation(perl.com)
109 points by oalders 1y ago|40 comments
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MetaCPAN's Traffic Crisis: An Eventual Success Story(perl.com)
3 points by oalders 1y ago|0 comments
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Analysing FIT data with Perl: interactive data analysis(peateasea.de)
2 points by oalders 1y ago|0 comments
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by oalders 1y ago
Fundraising is hard. There's a longer history around it that I don't have the space to fully explore here, but the quick version is that I'm currently looking for more sponsors in this 10k range rather than having to rely on
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Proxmox Donates €10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation(perl.com)
288 points by oalders 1y ago|185 comments
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A Prettier Path(olafalders.com)
2 points by oalders 1y ago|0 comments

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