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peateasea, 29 days ago to random

Once upon a time, I used to take an active part in the #CPAN Pull Request Challenge (and later in the Pull Request Club). When addresssing Perl::Critic violations in my assignment for the month, one violation which tended to crop up often was stringy eval. Generally, this is something to be avoided. But how? In the post below I discuss recommended best practices and some other options.

https://peateasea.de/avoiding-stringy-eval-in-perl/

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peateasea, 29 days ago to vim

Some editors seem to randomly insert non-breaking spaces. This can be a pain. In #vim replace them with normal spaces like so:

:%s/<Ctrl-V>u00a0/ /g

where u00a0 is the utf-8 sequence for a non-breaking space.

peateasea, 2 months ago to random

Ever been staying at a hotel and gotten annoyed that you always have to open a browser to log in for wireless access? Yup, me too. A recent instance was particularly frustrating and I had to pull out my favourite Swiss Army chainsaw in order to make my life a bit easier.

https://peateasea.de/hotel-hotspot-hijinks/

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isotopp, 3 months ago to random German

https://blog.koehntopp.info/2024/02/19/python-slots.html

In which I try to understand Python slots.

I find that dict is not really worse than slots, which is unexpected.

I also compare Perl, Python and PHP, and find that Python is slightly better than Perl in memory usage per object, which is impressive.

I also find that PHP uses as much memory as I would have Python dict expected to use, but Python optimizes this – PHP does not.

peateasea, 3 months ago to linux

For me an era is about to come to an end: after just over ten years at my current job (where I set up and built most of the infrastructure and code) it's time for me to move on.

From April 2024 I'll be available for part-time remote-only work. If you're looking for an all-rounder software dev and #Linux admin to attack (say) your tech debt in #Perl, #Python or even #Fortran, give me a yell 😃