These are some answers to the Week 265, Task 2, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar. Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on April 21, 2024 at 23:59). This blog post provides some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own. Task 2: Completing Word You are given a string, $str containing alphanumeric characters and array of strings (alphabetic characters only), @str. Write a script to find the shortest completing word. If none found return empty string. A completing word i ..read more

I just received an E-Mail purporting to be from the PAUSE Team, claiming a compromise of a server. It was written with some thought, referencing the account name of someone well known and trusted in our community. On closer inspection however, it was merely an attempt to phish PAUSE usernames and passwords via a supposed alternative login server. I'm sure many of us are old enough and experienced enough to detect and ignore this type of attack. But in case you aren't (welcome!) or if you are feeling a bit out of practice, then please remember to only log in via the official PAUSE entry point ..read more

These are some answers to the Week 265, Task 1, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar. Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on April 21, 2024 at 23:59). This blog post provides some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own. Task 1: 33% Appearance You are given an array of integers, @ints. Write a script to find an integer in the given array that appeared 33% or more. If more than one found, return the smallest. If none found then return undef. Example 1 Input: @ints = (1 ..read more

The three of us met, and: merged the deëxperiment PR agreed we should additionally discuss if the now-stable features (try, extra_paired_delimiters) should be included in the :5.40 feature bundle reported feedback from PPC implementors, which can be summarized as “life happened, will get back to work soon” continued to triage latest reported bugs and look for release blockers (Currently we have 8 potential blockers, though 2 are easy documentation fixes ..read more

These are some answers to the Week 264, Task 1, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar. Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on April 14, 2024 at 23:59). This blog post provides some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own. Task 1: Greatest English Letter You are given a string, $str, made up of only alphabetic characters [a..zA..Z]. Write a script to return the greatest english letter in the given string. A letter is greatest if it occurs as lower and upper case. Also le ..read more

We’ll chase up current implementors of outstanding PPCs to see what progress is Reviewed the new bugs since last review. One new potential blocker - 22121 Reviewed a first draft of a “Perl Roadmap” presentation that might be given at PTS ..read more

These are some answers to the Week 263, Task 2, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar. Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on April 7, 2024 at 23:59). This blog post provides some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own. Task 2: Merge Items You are given two 2-D array of positive integers, $items1 and $items2 where element is pair of (item_id, item_quantity). Write a script to return the merged items. Example 1 Input: $items1 = [ [1,1], [2,1], [3,2] ] $items2 ..read more

Maintainers and authors are found everywhere throughout our dependency trees. This includes the authors of the tooling others use for maintaining, building, testing, writing and running the infrastructure they depend on. Even maintainers depend on other maintainers. Maintainers’ mental health and well-being is also a dependency. So is their outlook on the sustainability of their projects, both in personal, technical, systemic and economic respects. This means that personal, technical, systemic and economic well-being in the end are all actual and real dependencies for the businesses that rel ..read more

Here’s a quickie little post, just to remind everyone of the usefulness of Date::Easy. Recently, I downloaded some pictures from Google Photos, and unzipped them into my directory of other photos.  I ended up with something that looked like this: '2024-03-01 09.34.44.jpg''2024-03-01 13.18.34.jpg''2024-03-31 14.25.27.jpg''2024-03-31 14.27.09.jpg''2024-03-31 14.27.40.jpg''2024-03-31 14.28.23.jpg''2024-03-31 14.30.03.jpg''2024-03-31 14.33.32.jpg''2024-03-31 14.34.10.jpg''2024-03-31 14.36.01.jpg'PXL_20240331_212527635.jpgPXL_20240331_213601848.jpgPXL_20240331_212823287.jpgPXL_20240331_21270 ..read more

Discussed some specific ideas for future perl development - more ways to allow CPAN modules to experiment with new ideas, import some possibly-stable ideas from CPAN into core. Reviewed the list of ongoing experiments in perlexperiment.pod to work out what can now be declared stable. We’re technically past “user visible changes” freeze but maybe the list will be happy with these changes anyway. Observed that SSL-in-core still hasn’t made any progress, and wondered further on how we can unstall it and try to get someone working on it eventually. Maybe writing a PPC doc would help ..read more