Tyil @tyil@mastodon.social
Free software fanatic.
- Website
- https://www.tyil.nl
Early results for the #perl6 User Survey: https://old.reddit.com/r/perl6/comments/8vaz2b/perl_6_survey_early_results/
Unpopular opinion: Writing the main function at the top of the file is nice because someone reading the code directly sees the entrypoint instead of the details
The Gentoo portage mirror on Github has been hacked. Wonder how they let that happen.
It's been a while, but I've finally released a new #perl6 module, Pod::To::Pager. It will parse pod and output text for use with a pager, such as less. It's looks have been largely based on the familiar man pages.
If you're interested in trying it out, check out the repository: https://gitlab.com/tyil/perl6-pod-to-pager
@qqlq I believe I still need to do an Angular project, but I'd rather do something with PureScript. Do you think these two can be combined, and whether I can convince the assessing teacher this is a good idea?
Join us at the Dutch Perl Workshop on July 7th. Learn and share.
Talks on Saturday (including mine!).
Perl 6 training and Perl 5 on a BeagleBone on Sunday.
More info on the website:
http://www.perlworkshop.nl/nlpw2018/
solarized is a disgusting color scheme and people who use it should be ashamed of themselves
A new #perl6 #weekly hits the net! https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2018/06/04/2018-23-opened-closed/
@jordyd
tired: Microsoft buying GitHub is bad
wired: Github is bad
fired: All open source communities relying on a proprietary tool is bad.
My Samsu^H^H^H^H^H HP printer, which works perfectly as a generic PCL printer, has Windows drivers that insist on uploading diagnostic information.
I did not run any installation program, so I must assume that this kind of functionality can be part of a Windows driver package.
Someone made a site to assist you in getting your accounts deleted: https://justdeleteme.xyz/
For those interested in #Tildes (https://tildes.net/), I may be able to get some invite codes to give away. Let me know if you have any interest in trying it out!
Happy GDPR-day!
Completely unexpected, the FBI was grossly overstating the "threat of encryption".
Another #perl6 #weekly hits the net! https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2018/05/21/2018-21-mitigating-denial/
Most importantly, stop putting institutional events on Facebook, stop using it at universities, stop making participation in Facebook mandatory through your institutional, organization, and activist roles. You can be online, and social, and connected without supporting Facebook.
There are definitely legitimate reasons for thinking Arch Linux is bad but "once or twice a year I have to run an extra command to update, woe is me" is far from it
