Shutting down

Hey there. You might have noticed there haven't been any posts here in... decades? centuries? How long has it been? Time is weird now.

There's an off-chance that there's still a few people out there with their RSS readers configured to keep an eye on this place, so I thought I'd put this up to reach out to you, loyal reader; the site's going away.

I have registered an alternate domain, neko.stream, but I don't intend to port this old blog over to it (at least, not in this present Blogger form).

The Blogger pages themselves will stick around somewhere in Google's datacentre (unless it shuts the service down, as if Google would ever shut down one of their services, right? haha). But rather than maintaining the blog subdomain for it, I do intend to "one day" set up my own infrastructure for blog-like articles. Knowing me, this will be done sometime in 2032.

In the meantime... it's kind of a different vibe, but I've been streaming on twitch.tv semi-regularly. You might like to stop by there.

Take care and see you later.

Perl 6 Advent Calendar

Have you been sitting here, refreshing the page for the last year, hoping for new content? Sorry. This is the Lazy Cat we're talking about here.

However, while we have been lazily hard at work in the boring real world which doesn't tend to generate blogposts, TMTVL over on the Perl 6 Advent Calendar has been industriously porting my old vigil.pl perl5 script to Rakudo Perl 6!

He has done an excellent job at explaining the process of porting and the differences between the two languages, go check it out and play with some fun Perl 6 features!

With our powers combined

Out of nowhere, a post. Still working. No brainspace. But I needed to fix my PulseAudio again (surprise!), as the "Simultaneous output" option in paprefs doesn't seem to work anymore, so here's how I did it:

Yeah, I know, sorry

I've been working! It has consumed all my runtime and then some more!

The good news is, I can at least use Perl 5 at work. And so I wrote a few little tidbits of information for my fellow developers, so they aren't surprised about bits of the language. It's almost blog-post worthy, so... copy-paste time!

Tired but Friday;

Just a tiny micro-post today; I have a new job! It's Perl 5 related so expect more Perl 5 posts since I want to stay in that headspace, but I haven't forgotten about Perl 6.

I want to show off a little neat feature of Perl 6 that might not be the most widely used feature you're ever gonna see, but is still going to be useful once in a while.

Software Spotlight: KDirStat

Very short tiny post today to show I'm not quite dead yet and maybe ease myself back into things. Rather than write some brand new software today, let's look at some software made by other people that's really handy: KDirStat.

Roll for Initiative, part 2

More Perl 6 learnings must be had! I'm behind on my posts and I want to quickly catch up to where the module is at, so that I can then make the module even better! But what is a Module, in Perl 6? Perl 5 programmers will find it's a pretty similar process, but let's look over it and also see how classes work. Yes, there's a class keyword in Perl 6 and it's built in, no Moose required!

Roll for Initiative, part 1

Oh hi! Just a short post for the moment because I am somewhat overwhelmed with things. But it can easily turn into some sort of multi-part thing. We're looking at more Perl 6 fun.

It all started when I was looking through Perl 6 docs, pondering what should be my second thing to learn about and write. I came across the metaoperators, which is a treasure trove of rather fantastic things that you can do in other languages just fine but tend to need tedious, repetitive looping constructs. Perl 6? Baked into the language, of course.