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  • Nice! My first big Perl program was an IRC bot named GoatNuts back in '96/'97.

    I learned a lot of Perl from Randall Schwarz (Programming Perl, O’Reilly) himself (who was doing community service for ‘hacking’ intel) in the #perl chanel on EfNet! Later hung out with him at a mutual friends party and he was an absolute asshat. Best lessons from Randall were to use strict; and always run with the -w flag and then heed and fix the warnings. When you can write beautiful strict perl with no warnings the code is much easier to maintain.

    Met Larry Wall (author of Perl) at The Perl Conference 1.0 and he was a gem.

    If you find you’re doing any web scraping look into the obscure spaceship operator. It makes parsing a small piece of larger text so much easier if you have good stop and start points.

    Cheers on your journey! Not too many proud perl hackers out there but I made a good chunk of coin off that language and it was my first ‘real’ language so it has a dear place in my heart!




  • As a sailboat enthusiast kedging is most often used as in the case of poor Blackbeard when you get caught up on something and need to move a small bit in a direction that’s against the wind or water. So usually just trying to get unstuck when you’ve run afoul of hidden sand bars or the tide shift leaves you in an awkward spot. You also might do it to help set an extra anchor if you’re worried about drifting on the tides.

    Even deep water boats only have a few hundred feet of anchor rode and line and it takes a while and is a hassle to kedge out with your dinghy.

    I have never in all my years of boating seen anyone do it as a method of general propulsion outside of just handling lines at the dock. It’s just sometimes your best shot.


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    5 months ago

    it’s really easy to flip a giant 2 tortilla quesadilla by just sliding it into a plate and then inverting the pan over the plate for a second and then flipping both back over together. Is usually melted enough that you don’t have to touch the pan being a few inches up is fine.

    You can really stuff em this way and if you’re cooking for a few people it goes twice as fast!

    What you made looks killer to me.