Mark Gardner

This weekend’s "final boss" wasn’t in a video game—it was my #Perl build. 🦖 Dist::Zilla and I stepped into the ring… and left as allies. (No Pacific Rim cities were harmed.) phoenixtrap.com/2025/08/17/kai… #programming #coding #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering

#EatTheRich? You’ll never be sated.

@AlexOfNYC @PrimeVideo This German guy is definitely feeling some type of way on the Prime stream for #DragRace #AllStars9 Untucked /cc @paramountplus @RuPaulsDragRace @RuPaul

@PrimeVideo Help: Wrong episode uploaded on Paramount+ on Prime. RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 6, Episode 6, is a German show -- not RPDR Untucked. Can you please fix?

@joelaberger @briandfoy_perl @mojolicious_org Would prefer to continue this conversation on #Mastodon: @mjgardner/111295949589527541" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">social.sdf.org/@mjgardner/111…

@markjgardner @briandfoy_perl And @mojolicious_org even uses that core (most of) yaml parser to use yaml config in the cheekily named docs.mojolicious.org/Mojolicious/Pl…

For this decade, I really think I want JSON and YAML modules as part of Perl core since that's most of what I'm moving around in automated testing and other places. We aren't passing around unstructured text or bespoke formats like it's 1987.

I didn’t join X twelve years ago. I joined •@Twitter• #MyTwitterAnniversary #MyXAnniversary

This thread highlights one of the key differences between the design processes behind #Raku and #Perl. Raku's design all came from the question "What could I build if I could basically start again from scratch? What ideas might I have? How do I build a coherent whole from (1/2)

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going in. This combination is a very powerful one. I think it should be used more across the technology design space. (2/2)

More seriously, the whole approach is Platonic. The Good is some perfection that we compare imperfect concretes to. Concretes are good insofar as they resemble this perfection. But whereas Plato saw the Good as an other-worldly abstractions, religionists see it as an other-worldly concrete. This approach defines out of existence an Aristotelian approach, where the good is not some abstract perfection, but an abstract standard we use to guide us in the achievement of a rational ultimate value. That's the approach I take here: earthlyidealism.com/p/solving-hist…

Step 1: Define the good as God Step 2: Declare that atheists must by definition reject the good Cute.

I'm a Google Developer Expert in #Dart and #Flutter (one of a dozen in North America), and I have affordable rates for hourly sessions to assist with mentoring, pair programming, and code review. Contact me and I'll give you a link to my self-service schedule to book your meeting

Twitter is shutting down our integration. They did not provide a schedule (or even working links to more info). I’m working on the Mastodon replacement now: github.com/lobsters/lobst… You should immediately switch to following @lobsters" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">botsin.space/@lobsters to continue reading.

Verifying my account on nostr My Public Key: "npub1m0qrfcnw2ftlesjsh4d2un6f9tnmfzq472p45nqn8aay07p8mw0skre7an" Find others at nostr.directory @nostrdirectory #nostr

I'm broke and looking for #flutter work. You've seen my skills. Please talk to me. DM here or Slack or Discord or linkedin.com/in/randalschwa….

@john_bokma OK, I’m breaking my Twitter silence because I see (an entirely different selection of?) these “greatest hits” blogs on @j3b" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.social/@j3b but you don’t respond there. In a word, why? Especially because you seem to post up-to-date material at plurrrr.com

How I learned to love the terminal #CommandLine 👉 Please retweet if you ❤ Plurrrr. Thanks! 👍 plurrrr.com/archive/2019/1…

@denschub They mentioned it in their November 23 blog: flexibits.com/blog/2022/11/5… And they sent an email titled “Pricing update for subscribers” on December 1. See the attached screenshot. It would have been nice if @flexibits emailed again before the @AppStore‘s one-month warning notice.

@petvas I received an email directly from @flexibits back on December 1. Perhaps you did as well? “Subscription pricing for Flexibits Premium will increase (due to inflation and rising costs) on January 3, 2023. You will not be charged the new price until your subscription renews.”

You literally hold the fate of stalwart #indie #innovators @tapbots and @Iconfactory in your hands. Do nothing and they’re collateral damage in @elonmusk’s destruction of @Twitter. Do the right thing. Tell everyone. Install & run the #apps one last time and decline the refund.