Perl

Earlier this year I was excited (one might even say well chuffed) when I heard that the London Perl Workshop was coming back after a hiatus of several years. I knew that in all likelihood I would not be able to attend, but it has been a bucket list item of mine for quite some time. You may be thinking to yourself that I have a weird bucket list. You’re not wrong.

I wrote an auto-installer for Perl modules, but I was too lazy to fix it.

A summary of what MetaCPAN accomplished in Lisbon while attending the Perl Toolchain Summit

The slides and video for my “Whither Perl” talk are now available.

A demonstration of how to use Docker to fix a test which fails under Perl 5.37

A summary of what MetaCPAN accomplished in Lyon while attending the Perl Toolchain Summit

PrettyGoodPing now allows you to log in via GitHub, Google and GitLab, giving you more authentication options when creating or using a PrettyGoodPing account to monitor your SSL/TLS certificates.

Just like domain name registrations, TLS/SSL certificates need to be renewed regularly. Let’s look at ways to monitor TLS/SSL expiry, from using a hosted service like https://prettygoodping to doing it ourselves in curl, Go and Perl.

I’ve been using perlimports a lot at $work. I’m generally quite happy with it, but perlimports can get confused by modules which are being dynamically used. Let’s look at an interesting strategy to fix this.