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• Post #3721521

  A #git workflow question. I have a branch (lets call it "orange"), that adds a whole bunch of features on top of main. I regularly rebase this from main. I also have a bunch of points on that branch marked as other branches ("orange-phase1", "orange-phase2", etc...) that are convenient points for PRs - either currently open or intended in the future. Is there a way I can **automatically** maintain these branches whenever I `git rebase main`? *Edit*: Solved: see r...

• Post #3667384

  @IceWolf@masto.brightfur.net Yes, there are a few functions that can operate as lvalues. What's even cooler is that you can make your own :)

• Post #3631752

  I always used to be disappointed when I saw typos or spelling mistakes in online articles, but now I realise I have a small smile of "Ah, at least this shows it was actually written by a human" and often don't worry about them. What times we live in...

• Post #3423083

  It was great to be alive during that brief period of human history after the invention of the smartphone camera but before the invention of generative AI that can create images. It meant that, for a few years, I was able to trust that pictures I saw online were of something that actually happened.

• Post #2038690

  Today I learned that ADI aren't selling to individuals any more and have instructed all their distributors not to either.. :( So... this kinda sucks. There's now a whole lot of parts for my boards I can no longer buy. I wonder what the workarounds for this are now.. #electronics

• Post #1860373

  First morning of Perl Toolchain Summit is going well. What I thought was the coffee button on the machine at breakfast turned out to be hot chocolate. So now instead of waking me up after my nearly-midnight arrival, I'll be even more asleep before we start. #pts2026

• Post #1860370

  I don't know why it's called "one-time pad" authentication. I must have used it ten times today at least...

• Post #1860369

  Do you need to write four bytes of arbitrary content into the page cache of a file you don't own? You can achieve it with this One Easy Trick. Sysadmins hate it.

• Post #968525

  This Week in #Perl Steering Council (#PSC) * We remembered we still need to write the announcement for deprecating smartmatch * We need to resync with Neil about how "SSL in Core" investigations are going * Reviewed RFCs and found a shortlist of "soon to expire" ones. A nudge email will be sent to the RFC sponsors. http://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2022/11/this-week-in-psc-088.html

• Post #968524

  This thread highlights one of the key differences between the design processes behind #RakuLang and #Perl. Raku's design all came from the question "What could I build if I could basically start again from scratch? What ideas might I have? How do I build a coherent whole from this blank canvas?" Perl's ongoing design is all rooted in "What would I use right now in this real code I am writing today? What features would I like to have that I currently d...