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user: oalders
created: 2012-02-02
karma: 1357

I'm Olaf Alders and I am raising funds for The Perl and Raku Foundation. Please reach out to me at olaf@perlfoundation.org or https://www.linkedin.com/in/olafalders/

I'm also trying to make OS/environment inspection in the shell easier: https://github.com/oalders/is

https://olafalders.com https://prettygoodping.com https://github.com/oalders https://metacpan.org/author/OALDERS

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/oalders; my proof: https://keybase.io/oalders/sigs/rAGk3U3PYkmtsRCWSspcBJR5YFhTPfIT8f8xjqFRWFQ ]

submissions:

Parsing Perl Without Perl: a Rust LSP for Perl [video]
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Cooldowns and Dependabot Tuning
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Perl Toolchain Summit 2026: Security, Testing, Porting, Community Collaboration
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Fastmail Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation
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Supporting Internet-Critical Open Source Projects
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Can Others Explain My Work Without Me?
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Oops I just broke Git-bisect
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How SUSE Is Using Perl
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Advent of the Underbar
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The Twelve Slices of Christmas: How Vasco Chained the Chaos
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Thirty Slices/Twenty-Four Days: How Christmas Was Saved by Abandoning Estimation
2 points | 1 comments
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The Night Before Deployment: How Melian Saved Christmas
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Teaching Art to Computers the Hard Way
3 points | 1 comments
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All I Want for Christmas Is the Right Aspect Ratio
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DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation v2025
180 points | 45 comments
Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation
179 points | 69 comments
My Guilty Perl Obsession
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Micro-management by proxy: reflections on generative AI in the workplace
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SUSE Donates USD 11,500 to the Perl and Raku Foundation
109 points | 40 comments