I’ve implemented and published a small (~100 lines) and trustworthy (#OpenSource, fully auditable) random strings (password) generator. One #PERL module with both command-line and web interface. Try, use, and download here:

https://farid.ps/random

If you are eager to be involved in some friendly FOSS community and would like to share some of your experience in a particular field where you see reproducibility and bootstrapability would improve the state of the art - don't be afraid and submit a request to be included in the one of many teams in Guix project!

Teams which will love to see for more participants #Java, #Go / #Golang #Perl, #Ruby, #Julia

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Teams.html

No commit access is required

#Guix #guixdays2026

Sponsorship opportunities for the 2026 Perl and Raku Conference are now available:

https://www.perl.com/article/cast-iron-community-your-chance-to-sponsor-tprc-2026/

#perl @perl @tag-perl #programming

Perl Weekly Challenge 359's tasks are "Digital Root" and "String Reduction", but the entire time I was writing these solutions, all I heard in my head was Chuck Mangione's Give It All You Got. #PerlWeeklyChallenge #raku #perl #python #elixir

Perl Weekly Challenge: Root It...

#Perl @PerlWChallenge 359 Digital Root and String Reduction https://wlmb.github.io/2026/02/02/PWC359/
#noxp

Let's begin the week with #Perl news.
https://perlweekly.com/archive/758.html

F5 BIG-IP VE : Surveiller la bande passante via les logs LTM avec Icinga
https://networkpulse.fr/f5-bigip-ve-bande-passante-icinga/
#supervision #perl

New issue of #Perl Weekly:758 - PTS 2026 - https://perlweekly.com/archive/758.html

ANNOUNCE: Perl.Wiki V 1.39 & Mojolicious.Wiki V 1.13
A new sponsorship model
This week in PSC (213) | 2026-01-26
Sydney February Meeting! 2025
Podlite comes to Perl: a lightweight block-based markup language for everyday use
Lock and unlock hash using Hash::Util
What I learned from being an editor/reviewer for the 2025 Perl Advent Calendar
German Perl/Raku Workshop 2026 in Berlin
Paris.pm monthly meeting
[...]

The Weekly Challenge - 359 #Perl #RakuLang
Task 1: Digital Root
Task 2: String Reduction
https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-359

#FOSDEM was awesome as always! Lots of action around the Perl and Raku table. Well done to everyone who volunteered! It was a blast!

We had stickers for #perl, #rakulang , @metacpan , @cpansec , @mojolicious , @the_underbar , and a bunch with #NoAI that disappeared quickly!

The Weekly Challenge 358: Encrypted Max #Perl #RakuLang #RustLang #Postscript #CrystalLang #Typst #PerlWeeklyChallenge #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/02/The_Weekly_Challenge_358__Encrypted_Max.html

BYTE Magazine, April 1994. Not long after, I'd start programming in #Perl myself.

From "things i forgot about #perl because i haven't touched it for too long":
Scripts are compiled before the actual execution is happening.

That makes debugging silly mistakes like "the file you're looking at isn't where you think it is" a bit different from eg. python.

#notestomyself

@joat
I did the same thing in #perl a years or so ago and came up with

TINEA

followed by

SHORT

but I can't remember exactly the methodology, I'm afraid.

Released https://metacpan.org/dist/Music-Drummer 0.7000 now with a growing collection of common grooves and of course an example program and test to exercise the new features. Woo!

#Perl #MIDI #Drums

Finding it somewhat surprising and shocking (still? again?) that eg. a Plan9 devroom exists, while a PHP doesn't and a #Perl one hasn't for goodness knows how long. I'm not one to hold presentations, but I'm sure we could have at least half a day worth of interesting stuff about modern Perl.

#FOSDEM