Tag: cpan

  • Shaving Last.FM Yaks

    Shaving Last.FM Yaks

    Long-time readers might remember that I once had a bit of an obsession with aggregating web feeds on sites that I called “planets”. I wrote Perlanet to make this job easier and I registered the domain theplanetarium.org to host these planets. The planets I built were of varying levels of usefulness – but of all…

  • Version Numbers

    Version Numbers

    Last week I mentioned how I had uploaded a new version of Symbol::Approx::Sub. Because there were pretty major changes to the inner workings of the module (although the interface still looked the same) I decided that I would move it from version 2.07 to version 3. At the same time, I decided that I would…

  • Hacking Symbol::Approx::Sub

    Hacking Symbol::Approx::Sub

    In October, for (I think) the second year, Digital Ocean ran Hacktoberfest – a campaign encouraging people to submit pull requests to Github repos in exchange for free t-shirts. A few of us thought that this might be a good way to do a small bit of easy Perl advocacy, so we tagged some issues…

  • Updating Ogg::Vorbis::Header

    Updating Ogg::Vorbis::Header

    Last night, I uploaded a new version of Ogg::Vorbis::Header – a CPAN module that hasn’t been updated since 2003 and which I strongly suspect no-one at all uses any more. You might be interested to hear what I did or why I did it. About a year ago, I wrote about the dashboard I had…

  • Taming QMail

    Taming QMail

    I run my own email server. It uses QMail. I realise there are at least two problems there – all of the cool kids have been using Gmail for their email since approximately forever, and who the hell uses QMail anyway? Like most of these situations, it’s that way for historical reasons. And, of course,…