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@sxa @kittylyst for me, and it could be that my experience is not more widely representative: I generally find Perl programs to be self-contained, and Python ones to have a dependency hell to navigate. That really impacts their readability and maintainability. Oh, and a Perl script written 20 years ago generally works today; the same can not be said for Python.
@sxa yum perl pie. I uesd to do that a lot :-) The starting point of my modern perl scripts is invariably the core loop that -pie provides (while(<>) {...)
@mjg59 I loved his “sustainability” book. It would be great if someone updated it or wrote something spiritually similar with today’s numbers.
@jbouter @kev there’s a vim plugin “taskwiki” that integrates task warrior with another vim plugin “vimwiki”. That’s been my work notes-and-tasks solution for a while. Probably not interesting if you’re not already a vim user. There’s a bit of jank that drove me to write an alternative plug-in in lua (not public yet though)
I don’t automatically fall into camp Kermode but even when I do, he’s forced to really justify his position. Jones keeps him on his toes. And it’s really invigorating to hear a very different perspective
Ellen E Jones (who I wasn’t previously familiar with) really holds her own. They frequently seem to have polar opposite takes. And that makes for really interesting chat
“Screenshot” on BBC is fabulous radio https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/bbc_radio_fourfm?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
@fred I’m going to blame Google rather than Debian for that :) https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2025/07/msg00070.html and
https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2025/07/msg00074.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2025/07/msg00074.html