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Stories by mjgardner

Relational Databases Aren’t Dinosaurs, They’re Sharks (simplethread.com)
L 49 pts 19 comments by mjgardner Oct 12, 2021 databases Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
A good old-​fashioned Perl log analyzer (phoenixtrap.com)
L 26 pts 14 comments by mjgardner Sep 14, 2021 perl Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Inspired by [this discussion](https://lobste.rs/s/ztofac/awk_power_promise_40_year_old_language)
GNU Parallel's 20th birthday (gnu.org)
L 25 pts 3 comments by mjgardner Jan 7, 2022 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
34 at 34 for v5.34: Modern Perl features for Perl’s birthday (phoenixtrap.com)
L 25 pts 7 comments by mjgardner Dec 21, 2021 perl Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
DOOM Rendered via Checkboxes (healeycodes.com)
L 25 pts 5 comments by mjgardner Oct 14, 2021 javascriptweb Web Development thread
Avoid Yoda conditions in Perl you should (phoenixtrap.com)
L 17 pts 20 comments by mjgardner Dec 28, 2021 perlpractices Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryProductivity / Career / Business thread
The Immaturity of JavaScript (dev.to)
L 16 pts 11 comments by mjgardner Oct 10, 2021 javascriptrant Web Development thread
The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated (phoenixtrap.com)
L 15 pts 16 comments by mjgardner Oct 19, 2021 perlrant Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
What's Next for Object-Oriented Perl? (phoenixtrap.com)
L 12 pts 1 comments by mjgardner Aug 3, 2021 perl Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Porting from Perl to Go: Simplifying for Platform Engineering (phoenixtrap.com)
L 11 pts 0 comments by mjgardner Oct 15, 2025 devopsgolinuxmacperl Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / InfrastructureApple / macOS / iOS thread
Faulty DRM breaks dozens of games on Intel’s Alder Lake CPUs (arstechnica.com)
L 11 pts 3 comments by mjgardner Nov 8, 2021 gameshardware Gaming / Retro ComputingMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
Syntax changes for Corinna, proposed declarative OO Perl mechanism (blogs.perl.org)
L 10 pts 0 comments by mjgardner Nov 15, 2021 perlplt Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Perl warnings and the warn function (phoenixtrap.com)
L 9 pts 2 comments by mjgardner Jan 4, 2022 perl Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Get out early with Perl statement modifiers (phoenixtrap.com)
L 8 pts 0 comments by mjgardner Jan 19, 2022 perlpractices Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryProductivity / Career / Business thread
Git Commands Explained with Cats (2017) (girliemac.com)
L 8 pts 2 comments by mjgardner Oct 18, 2021 vcs Programming (General) thread
Taming the Moose: Classing up Perl attributes (phoenixtrap.com)
L 7 pts 0 comments by mjgardner Nov 9, 2021 perl Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Modernizing the Wolfenstein 3D Fizzlefade Algorithm (2017) (jacopretorius.net)
L 7 pts 1 comments by mjgardner Nov 2, 2021 cgamespracticestesting Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryGaming / Retro ComputingProductivity / Career / Business thread
The Funhouse Mirror of Perl Criticism (phoenixtrap.com)
L 7 pts 10 comments by mjgardner Jul 27, 2021 perlrant Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
A Macintosh History 85.10 (systemtalk.org)
L 6 pts 0 comments by mjgardner Oct 3, 2021 mac Apple / macOS / iOSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Everyone’s a (Perl) critic, and you can be too (phoenixtrap.com)
L 6 pts 0 comments by mjgardner Sep 21, 2021 perlpractices Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryProductivity / Career / Business thread
LAMP is dead! Long live (Perl) web frameworks (phoenixtrap.com)
L 5 pts 0 comments by mjgardner Oct 5, 2021 perlrantweb Web DevelopmentProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Better Perl: Four list processing best practices with map, grep, and more (phoenixtrap.com)
L 4 pts 0 comments by mjgardner Oct 26, 2021 perlpractices Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryProductivity / Career / Business thread
Cutting the fat: Lightweight Perl OO modules (phoenixtrap.com)
L 4 pts 0 comments by mjgardner Sep 7, 2021 perl Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Taming the Moose: Method modifiers instead of overrides in object-​oriented Perl (phoenixtrap.com)
L 4 pts 0 comments by mjgardner Aug 31, 2021 perl Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Porting a Perl script to Raku while keeping the Perl dependencies (phoenixtrap.com)
L 4 pts 0 comments by mjgardner Aug 17, 2021 perl Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Read The Fantastic Manual: How to get the most out of Perl documentation (phoenixtrap.com)
L 3 pts 0 comments by mjgardner Oct 12, 2021 perl Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Follow-up: Using a more purpose-made module to shorten a Perl & Raku script (phoenixtrap.com)
L 3 pts 0 comments by mjgardner Aug 24, 2021 perl Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
The Beautiful Prison: AI stuck in retro hardware asks: am I conscious? (thebeautifulprison.com)
HN 3 pts 2 comments by mjgardner Nov 28, 2025 AI / Machine LearningGaming / Retro ComputingMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
Perl list processing is for hashes, too (phoenixtrap.com)
L 2 pts 0 comments by mjgardner Feb 10, 2022 perl Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Vicious (test) mockery of a Perl modulino (phoenixtrap.com)
L 2 pts 0 comments by mjgardner Nov 30, 2021 perltesting Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread