(I make no apologies for the ChatGPT images in my recent blog posts, by the way. No artists are missing out on being paid: I wasn’t going to hire an artist to illustrate these blog posts which will be read by like three people.) A while back, I wrote MooseX::XSAccessor which you can add to … Continued
When I first introduced Marlin, it seemed the only OO framework which could beat its constructor in speed was the one generated by the new Perl core class keyword. Which seems fair, as that’s implemented in C and is tightly integrated with the Perl interpreter. However, I’m pleased to say that Marlin’s constructors are now … Continued
Does the Perl world need another object-oriented programming framework? To be honest, probably not. But here’s why you might want to give Marlin a try anyway. Most of your constructors and accessors will be implemented in XS and be really, really fast. If you accept a few basic principles like “attributes should usually be read-only”, … Continued
What’s new? The BoolLike type constraint accepts boolean.pm booleans. Type::Params offers some improvements for DWIM named parameter processing. More shortcuts are provided for exporting parameterized versions of type constraints….
Everybody’s talking about the one day blinding stew but how do you make it? This stew is also known as “stew that makes you blind”, “stew that makes you blind for one day”, or “Hunter’s sightless stew”. One day blinding stew is an ideal punishment for biting hair. Ingredients 3 blinding mushrooms (see image), roughly … Continued
I already published this on another site years ago, but wanted it on my blog too. Firstly, you will need salt. Salt can be made from scratch by reacting sodium with chlorine, but a shortcut would be to take a trip to your nearest sea, collect several litres of seawater, and evaporate off the water, … Continued
A little over ten years ago, when Perl 5.18 was approaching its release date, I released match::simple. This was mostly in response to the smartmatch operator (~~) being deprecated, but also a solution to the incredibly arcane rules for…
Quite a while ago, I blogged about how Perl projects should have websites to increase not only their visibility, but the visibility of Perl as a whole. Perl has had the CPAN and awesome websites like MetaCPAN and its…
Let’s play with overloading a little. (Article experimenting with overloading operators in Perl, explaining a safe way to cast an overloaded object to a number.)
Consider a simple module like this: package MyApp::Util::Maths; use strict; use warnings; use constant PI => 3.14159265358979; use constant EULER => 2.71828182845905; use base ‘Exporter’; our @EXPORT_OK = qw( PI EULER add ); our %EXPORT_TAGS = ( arithmetic =>…
I recently decided to experiment by setting up a Matrix account. And because I always dive head first into things, I of course set up my own Matrix server rather than making an account on a public one. At the same time, I noticed my Jabber/XMPP account had stopped working, so I decided to self-host … Continued
Here’s my top five Disney villain songs. I’m only including songs from Walt Disney Animation Studios, so nothing from Pixar, etc. 5. Mother Knows Best — Tangled (2010) “Men with pointy teeth.” It’s a fun song, and quite dark in places. 4. Be Prepared — The Lion King (1994) Jeremy Irons singing with Whoopi Goldberg … Continued
One of the modules bundled with Type::Tiny is Type::Params, a module that allows you to validate subroutine signatures using type constraints. It’s one of the more popular parts of the suite. This article provides a few hints for using…
Here is my recipe for quickly spinning up a WordPress site with: Plugins and themes managed by PHP Composer, so they can be checked into version control. Several of my favourite plugins installed, including FooGallery and Advanced Custom Fields. A minimal theme combining Roots Sage 10 and Bootstrap 5.2 (at the time of writing this … Continued
With my open source work, I’ve historically taken an approach which relies more on integration testing than unit testing, but with some of my newer projects, I’ve tried adopting principles from $paidwork and applying them to my free software. This…
Let’s look at the XSPF playlist format. It’s a pretty simple XML-based file format.
Consider the following fairly simple class, which creates a lookup object for month names…
This is a variant of SemVer which mostly meets all its rules, except for releases prior to 0.2.0, where we bend them slightly. It is my intention to use this versioning system for all open source software I develop from…
Eagle-eyed watchers of CPAN may have noticed that I’ve recently been releasing Type::Tiny development releases with version numbers 1.999_XYZ. Type::Tiny v2 is intended to be compatible with Type::Tiny v1. If you’ve used Type::Tiny v1, you shouldn’t need to change…
Firstly, I’m not planning on breaking compatibility with Type::Params. The new API would live under a different namespace, such as Type::Params2. The API for Type::Params is currently: use feature ‘state’; use Type::Params qw( compile compile_named_oo ); use Types::Standard -types; sub…
