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At the end of this month, I'm giving a talk to the Toronto Perl Mongers about the second edition of "Data Munging With Perl". I guess I'd better make sure the update is ready by then :-/ lu.ma/3b8ekn8y

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I'm pretty sure I'm from a reality where Grace Slick died about fifteen years ago. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/f...

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I just sent this newsletter out to my subscribers (six months after the last one - it's a very low-volume newsletter 🙂) davecross.substack.com/p/im-still-h...

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Over the last few years, I've really cut back on buying domains on the spur of the moment. But I heard that South Sudan was allowing top-level registrations in their ccTLD. So... davecro.ss

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In order to communicate with a current client I am using Skype (which, honestly, I thought no longer existed). I don't think I've ever used a messaging platform where I've been approached by more young women who should put a shirt on. It's been a couple a day for the last three weeks.

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How I wrote the new PPC website (Part 1) perlhacks.com/2025/01/prop... #perl #ppc #github_actions #github_pages

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In a week when the US right-wing media is having apoplexy about Bishop Budde and are tying themselves in knots trying to explain why she's not a good Christian, it's useful to remember what Gandi said: "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

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I've known for a while that Vulture was working on a piece about the Neil Gaiman allegations. That piece has just been published. Everything is worse than last year's podcasts made it seem. Trigger warnings: All sorts of fucked-up shit. You do not want to read this. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

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Using Perl to help your website rank higher in search engine results pages. perlhacks.com/2025/01/addi...

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Did you know there's a theatre under the London Transport Museum? I didn't, but I've just been there to see a good play about Harry Beck. www.ltmuseum.co.uk/theatre

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We've moved the London Perl Mongers website to GitHub Pages. Here's how we did it: perlhacks.com/2025/01/lond...

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Possibly controversial film opinion. I've just seen the new version of Nosferatu and I really don't think it adds anything to the million or so previous versions of the story.

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I've seen two hundred films in 2024. Seventy-six of them cost me £1 each because of the Picturehouse Film Club programme. blog.dave.org.uk/2024/12/pict...

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I've just listed a Radio Times with a Doctor Who cover on eBay. It's the March 2005 edition that introduced the new version of the show and it contains a 16-page pullout with articles about the upcoming episodes. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/32638658...

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Literally days after I completed my Marvel films list, "Kraven the Hunter" was released. But watching that can wait until it's available on streaming services. Tonight I start my DC films list - with the two Swamp Thing films. letterboxd.com/realdavorg/l...

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Oh, you lucky people - this year you get two Perl Advent Calendar articles from me. The second one is published today. It's about the new "perlclass" OO syntax. perladvent.org/2024/2024-12...

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Last night I watched "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengence". Not a great film. tbh. But it's the penultimate film on my "Watch all the Marvel films" list. And "Blade Trinity" is ready for me to watch over the weekend. I guess I need a DC films list now. letterboxd.com/realdavorg/l...

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I wrote today's entry in the Perl Advent Calender (it's about GitHub Actions, of course). perladvent.org/2024/2024-12...

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I crunched some numbers on the "Call a general election" petition - so I could see where the votes are coming from. davorg.dev/ge-petition/

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The "call a general election" petition just passed 2,000,000 signatures. Still completely pointless though - parliament plays no part in the scheduling of general elections.

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Did anyone else see the "Queer" trailer and (just for a split second) think it was a new Knives Out film? www.youtube.com/watch?v=eknj...

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Be careful people. I just had a "policeman" call me about a suspect who had been arrested carrying a debit card with my name on it. When I asked which station I could call him back at, he hung up.

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I know this doesn't apply to many of my friends. But when did so many Americans start reading "The Handmaid's Tale" as an instruction manual?

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I've added the slides for the talks I gave at the LPW yesterday to my talks site (I'll add the videos too once they're published). talks.davecross.co.uk/event/london...

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Now that laptops don't have USB ports, how do people use presentation clickers? (I guess it's either Bluetooth or a USD-C connection)

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I'm surprised that as many as 18% of Brits support Trump. I guess I don't talk to many Reform voters. yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

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Coming soon...

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Tory MPs give the membership a choice between the mad right-wing one and the absolutely insane right-wing one. Thereby, surely, ensuring the Reform Party will be absorbed by the end of this parliament and the new (Norsefire) Tory party will be irrelevant by the next election.

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I believe I shall be watching "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" this evening. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

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I described PerlDiver to ChatGPT and asked it to produce a diagram of the system. It didn't do very well :-/ But if that whets your appetite at all, I'll be talking about how it actually works at the London Perl Workshop on 26 October. act.yapc.eu/lpw2024/talk... #perl #ci #perldiver #lpw

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I've added the 2024 shortlist to my Read A Booker site. readabooker.com/year/

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I'm at the BFI for an event celebrating the 40th anniversary of "Robin of Sherwood". I can't make that work in my head. Forty years ago I was in my early 20s. But I feel like I watched it as a teenager.

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Many months ago, someone subscribed me (on two email addresses) to Biden (now Harris) campaign emails. I kept the subscription because I thought it would be interesting to follow the campaign. Today I'm unsubscribing, because all I'm getting is a near-constant stream of requests for money.

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Twenty-five years ago today (13 Sep 1999), an explosion on the dark side of the moon blew the moon out of its orbit and sent the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha off into deep space.

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I've been writing an example web application using Dancer2. Well, I say I've been writing it. Actually, I've been speccing it and GitHub Copilot Workspace has been writing the code. It has been interesting (and, rather more successful than I expected). I shall continue. github.com/davorg/dance...

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A bit of nostalgia. I've resurrected some book reviews I originally wrote between 2001 and 2012. Remember when technical books were a thing? reviews.davecross.co.uk (For younger readers, technical books were when publishers charged huge amounts of money for always-slightly-out-of-date manuals 😀)

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The interesting side of using the latest Perl features. perlhacks.com/2024/08/on-t...

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Here's a link to the newsletter that went out to subscribers yesterday. Contains more details about tomorrow's GitHub Actions training course. (It might just include a promo link to get 20% off the training) davecross.substack.com/p/github-act...

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With the Doctor Who Collection bluray sets, the BBC have found an excellent way to siphon money directly from my bank account to theirs. Now they've realised they can do the same with Blake's 7. I wonder what else is on their list. Doomwatch? The Omega Factor? Survivors? amzn.to/3T6dY4L

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The Eventbrite widget on my GitHub training pages stopped working because someone fiddled with security headers. I've reverted to the age-old solution of adding a link to Eventbrite. So if that was your excuse for not booking, you can try again now. learn.davecross.co.uk/github-actio...

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It's been a largely unproductive day. But I've finally got round to updating the Norsefire site. norsefire.uk

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Ok, who wants to learn some GitHub stuff? I'm getting back into running public training courses. They'll be online-only to start. The first three are arranged. We start in two weeks time. See learn.davecross.co.uk for details.

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If you want an object lesson in the shitshow Twitter has become since Musk allowed people to pay for blue ticks and boosted replies - look at the astroturfing in the replies here. Someone was happy to spend money to bury possibly problematic replies. x.com/MrCrazyCraig...

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I know some clever mobile devs, right? What's the best way to do cross-platform mobile development? Can I write a PWA and put that in the Apple/Google app stores? Is there a better approach?

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I closed my American Express account recently. As I had just paid my annual fee, they are going to send me a refund. In a cheque. From the 1990s, presumably! :-)

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Londoners: If an online address form has mandatory fields for both town and county - what do you use? I think the most sensible options are: * [Borough] / London * London / Greater London But neither of them are right. Which annoys me.

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Here's a link to my newsletter that went out to subscribers yesterday. davecross.substack.com/p/making-a-l...

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I didn't watch the Olympics opening ceremony on Friday. But all this talk of it being blasphemous and demonic has me reaching for iPlayer. p.s. Blasphemy - the only truly victimless crime.

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