Matt S. Trout (mst), who was active in Perl and came to many UKUUG conferences, has just passed away at the age of 42.

https://www.shadowcat.co.uk/2025/07/09/ripples-they-cause-in-the-world/

“Ripples They Cause in the World” https://lobste.rs/s/nbtmv3 #perl
https://www.shadowcat.co.uk/2025/07/09/ripples-they-cause-in-the-world/

one of my favorite internet friends https://www.shadowcat.co.uk/2025/07/09/ripples-they-cause-in-the-world/ #mst #perl

FYI for #Perl folk: mst (Matt S. Trout) has crossed the rainbow bridge.

https://www.shadowcat.co.uk/2025/07/09/ripples-they-cause-in-the-world/

Well fuck. mst had a terrible habit of uh opening his mouth and letting words come out. But very smart, did his damnedest to be kind, usually admitted his failures, and a hell of a lot of energy. A loud, abrasive cornerstone of the #Perl community.

Sounds negative, but no. I'm just acknowledging his issues while saying with full heart that I've missed that fucker and now I'm mad I have to keep missing him.

(profanity included out of respect for the deceased)

https://www.shadowcat.co.uk/2025/07/09/ripples-they-cause-in-the-world/

Rest in Peace, Matt S Trout (MST). This makes me sad.

https://www.shadowcat.co.uk/2025/07/09/ripples-they-cause-in-the-world/

Also after writing about #perl the other day I decided to just start writing a program to solve a dumb problem. Sometimes wine will leave dangling processes around depending on a lot of dumb bullshit.

So I wrote a couple of Perl functions to enumerate the cmdline for each process and derive, through re, if it was a wine related pid.

There’s so many ways to properly do this and probably even a perl module for process management. As the saying goes: fuck the police.

Programmiersprache Perl 5.42 führt neue Listenoperatoren ein

Perl 5.42 liefert ergänzende Funktionalität für mehr moderne Objektorientierung und die zwei neuen Listenoperatoren any und all.

https://www.heise.de/news/Programmiersprache-Perl-5-42-fuehrt-neue-Listenoperatoren-ein-10477024.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2025/07/08/12502/%e5%82%b3%e7%b5%b1%e7%9a%84-cgi-bin-%e9%81%87%e5%88%b0%e7%8f%be%e4%bb%a3%e7%9a%84%e7%a1%ac%e9%ab%94/

傳統的 cgi-bin 遇到現代的硬體

Vibe coding a #Perl interface to a #C library - Part 2
https://chrisarg.github.io/Killing-It-with-PERL/2025/07/04/Vibe-coding-a-Perl-interface-to-a-foreign-library-Part-2.html
Conclusions:
> The AI tools require substantial subject matter (and guidance) to deliver a good result
> The widespread assumption that a non technically experienced end user can achieve God status with these tools is unfounded
> Constant vigilance for hallucinations, omissions and biases is required!

I've uploaded a new #Perl utility to #CPAN for writing author tests. It gathers a list of files in a distribution.

https://metacpan.org/dist/Test2-Util-DistFiles

The motivation is to avoid repeating the code in author and release testing modules all do.

#Vibecoding a #Perl interface to a #C library - Part 2
https://chrisarg.github.io/Killing-It-with-PERL/2025/07/04/Vibe-coding-a-Perl-interface-to-a-foreign-library-Part-2.html
Conclusions:
> #AI requires substantial subject matter expertise to deliver
> Constant vigilance for hallucinations, omissions and biases is required!
> They will not make a God out of a novice

I wrote a little tool to show what "board.*" defines for a #CircuitPython build. I got tired for always trawling through ports/*/boards for it. It's called "cirpy-showpins" and its output looks like the below. I used #Perl originally but here's it in Python: https://gist.github.com/todbot/e91853b9d5e021405bb9a85081a39163

#Perl 5.42.0 Released: #Performance Gains, #Feature Refinements, and Key #Security Fixes https://medium.com/p/perl-5-42-0-released-performance-gains-feature-refinements-and-key-security-fixes-1976628bc763

It's SOO NICE working on an involved project in #Perl again.

With all the fascism going on lately, and the religiously overzealous type constraints and namespace purity jails...

Well, Perl is so delightfully permissive.

Like an eccentric scholar who says, “Sure, you can do that. Should you? That’s between you and the moon.”

I couldn't love Perl more.