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Dist::Zilla Starter revision 3 – Git, versioning, and more

Posted on September 27, 2018. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

Dist::Zilla Starter revision 3 – Git, versioning, and more I’ve just released revision 3 of the @Starter plugin bundle for the Dist::Zilla CPAN distribution authoring tool. There’s no changes to the base configuration from revision 2, but there are now additional options to help manage common authoring tasks using modern best practices. You must set […]

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Dist::Zilla @Starter – Revision 2

Posted on September 27, 2018. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

Dist::Zilla @Starter – Revision 2 I recently released revision 2 of the [@Starter] plugin bundle for Dist::Zilla. This revision brings small improvements to the default behavior, as well as the option to set a different installer plugin. In order to use the new revision, you must set the option “revision = 2” when using the […]

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Dist::Zilla – Why you should use @Starter instead of @Basic

Posted on September 27, 2018. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

Dist::Zilla – Why you should use @Starter instead of @Basic If you’re currently using [@Basic], there are a few reasons you should consider switching over. [@Basic] has become somewhat outdated as it needs to maintain compatibility with existing configs; [@Starter] modernizes the base plugin set. For example, it includes the important [MetaJSON] plugin for generating […]

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Dist::Zilla for Beginners

Posted on September 23, 2018. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , |

Dist::Zilla for Beginners Multi-part tutorial (incomplete at the time of writing). Also discussed at perlmonks

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Bit Twiddling Hacks

Posted on August 28, 2018. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

Bit Twiddling Hacks Many public domain algorithms (with C implementations) for low-level messing with bits. Some examples: Compute the minimum or maximum of two integers Determining if an integer is a power of 2 Counting bits set Swapping individual bits Reversing bit sequences Finding integer log base 2 of an integer (aka the position of […]

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Blender Python Operator Tutorial

Posted on August 7, 2018. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

Blender Python Operator Tutorial In this tutorial, you’re going to learn how to create a new feature for a Blender add-on, in Python, using the Operator class. Operator is the bread and butter of add-ons, the base type to extend the program’s functionality!

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How to become a CPAN contributor

Posted on August 3, 2018. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , |

How to become a CPAN contributor To become a CPAN contributor, you don’t need to write a new CPAN distribution, you just need to submit a change to an existing distribution that gets accepted by the author. If you’ve never gotten your hands dirty editing Perl modules, the first question that may come to mind […]

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Exploring Type::Tiny

Posted on July 31, 2018. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Type::Tiny is probably best known as a way of having Moose-like type constraints in Moo, but it can be used for so much more. This is a series of posts showing other things you can use Type::Tiny for. A seven part series posted to blogs.perl.org and perlmonks Using Type::Params for Validating Function Parameters — perl.org […]

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Patching Perl: loading modules that return false

Posted on July 24, 2018. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , |

Patching Perl: loading modules that return false If you’ve been programming Perl for a while, you’ve probably run into this exception: Foo.pm did not return a true value. This is a peculiar quirk of the require function: modules must return a true value else Perl interprets it as a failure via r/perl [reddit]

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Common electronic components

Posted on July 17, 2018. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , |

Suggestions for basic electronic component stock Common Parts Library for Production Open Parts Library r/AskElectronics wiki via What is the minimum diversity of resistor values to order to begin with? [reddit]

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