<p><strong><em>Data Munging with Perl is back</em>. After 25 years.</strong></p> <p>A lot has changed since Data Munging with Perl was published in 2001. We don’t munge the same data we did then, and ...

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Techniques for data recognition, parsing, transformation and filtering. Second edition, by Dave Cross.

The London Perl & Raku Workshop

Sometimes you design a system. And sometimes you make a series of vaguely related decisions over five years and eventually realise that, quite by accident, you've designed a system. I think I've just ...

I run a handful of small content sites — Perl School, Readabooker, Mercurial Albums, and a few...

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Techniques for data recognition, parsing, transformation and filtering. Second edition, by Dave Cross.

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The Edinburgh Fringe starts on Friday. Here is what StandUp.co.uk will be covering, the key Comedy Awards dates and our tips for making the most of the festival.

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Mercurial Albums - Mercurial Albums — Mercury Prize shortlists and winners

"The future is already here — it's just not evenly distributed."— William Gibson I was reminded of that quote this week when I received a support request for a Perl CGI script I helped write about twe...

Oneirina makes cinematic, nocturnal pop shaped by London streets, half-remembered nights and the stories we tell ourselves on the way home.

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

Every now and then I'm reminded of a technology from the early days of the web and wonder if I imagined it. This week, it was Mohammad using WebAssembly to run Perl in his browser. Which led to me thi...

From Ahir Shah and Nish Kumar to Kristen Schaal and the breakout stars of SNL UK, these are the Edinburgh Fringe comedy shows at the top of my 2026 list.

Back in 2020 I gave a pretty definitive statement of my position on physical books. When brian d foy interviewed me for perl.com, I said, among other things: "I do like a real book. But they take up t...

Design Patterns in Modern Perl shows how classic object-oriented patterns look in today’s Perl. Using core Perl, Moo and Object::Pad, Mohammad Sajid Anwar builds real, tested examples, helping you cho...

Back in January I wrote about App::HTTPThis, the tiny web server I seem to reach for whenever I need to share the contents of a directory over HTTP. It's a deliberately simple tool, wrapping Plack::Ap...

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The nms CGI programs. Contribute to davorg/nms-cgi development by creating an account on GitHub.

A question came up recently in the Perl community asking whether, in a Mojolicious application, it's better to use DBIx::Class or a Mojolicious-specific module like Mojo::Pg. It's an interesting quest...

The high schooler who developed everyone’s forums and guestbooks in 1996 didn’t really think about security. But Matt’s Script Archive was more than exploits.

[I really don’t consider myself a political pundit, but a few (ok, two) people have asked for my opinion on this, so I thought it was worth…

Public Identifiers, UUIDs and a Tiny SEO Fix A recent question from my friend and colleague Mohammad got me thinking about the way we identify data in web applications. While working on the DBIC compo...

One of the more interesting additions I've made recently to the Line of Succession website is support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP). If you've spent any time around AI tooling recently, you've ...

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Classic literature for modern software teams

Find your current bearing and inclination through space, combining Earth’s spin with Earth’s orbit around the Sun.

This is the MCP endpoint for Line of Succession. MCP clients should send JSON-RPC POST requests to:

A map-based guide to the Livery Companies and their halls.

A map-based guide to the Livery Companies and their halls.