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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes"> <title>Perl Weekly: A Free, Weekly Email Newsletter for the Perl Programming language</title> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/style.css" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <meta name="description" content="Perl Weekly is a Free, Email Newsletter filled with hand picked articles and Perl-related news." /> <meta name="keywords" content="Perl, Perl 5, Perl 6, Rakudo, newsletter, news, articles" /> <link href="/perlweekly.rss" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title ="Perl Weekly" /> <link href="/index.rss" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title ="Perl Weekly Index" /> </head> <body id="home"> <div id="stripe">Perl Weekly</div> <div id="main"> <p> A free, once a week e-mail round-up of hand-picked news and articles about Perl. </p> <div class="selfquote"> <span class="emp">You</span> are busy churning out code or managing the developers. <span class="emp">You</span> care about Perl but don't have time to go through tens and hundreds of articles and blog posts every day. <span class="emp">You</span> want to keep an eye on the development of Perl without drowning in a sea of blog posts. <span class="emp">You</span> need someone to point out the most important news and articles in the Perl World. </div> <div class="selfquote"> Let me be your guide. </div> <div> <p> Join the 4398 people who received the previous issue! </p> </div> <div class="subform">   <form class="subscribe" action="/subscribe.html" method="GET"> <input class="awesome_button" type="submit" value="Click to sign up!" /> </form> <div class="onemail"> Just ONE e-mail each Monday. Easy to <a href="/unsubscribe.html">unsubscribe</a>. No spam. Your e-mail address is safe. </div> </div> <div> Next issue on 2024-12-02. </div> <p> Want a sneak peek? Check out the <a href="/latest.html">latest</a> issue (<a href="/archive/696.html">#696</a>),<br> or see <a href="/archive/">every earlier issue in the archive</a>. </p> <h2>How to submit an article?</h2> <div> If you'd like to submit an article to be included in the next edition of the newsletter, send an email to <b>editors@perlweekly.com</b> where the currently active editors (Mohammad Sajid Anwar and Gabor Szabo) will receive it. Remember we usually publish the newsletter Monday morning-ish, Israel time. </div> <h2>Active Editors</h2> <div id="handpicked"> <img src="img/gabor_szabo.png" alt="Gabor Szabo" /> Established by <a href="https://szabgab.com/">Gabor Szabo</a>, long time Perl developer; Rust, Python and Perl trainer. Author of the <a href="https://perlmaven.com/perl-tutorial">Perl tutorial</a> on the Perl Maven site and of the <a href="https://code-maven.com/">Code Maven</a> and <a href="https://rust.code-maven.com/">Rust Maven</a> sites. <a href="https://whitecamel.org/">White Camel</a> awardee. He develops the <a href="https://cpan-digger.perlmaven.com/">CPAN Diger</a>, the <a href="https://rust-digger.code-maven.com/">Rust Digger</a> and the <a href="https://pydigger.com/">PyDigger</a> services. He teaches <a href="https://szabgab.com/">training courses in Israel</a> and around the world. He has the hat of the chief editor. (380 issues) </div> <div id="handpicked"> <img src="img/mohammad_anwar.png" alt="Mohammad Sajid Anwar" /> <a href="https://manwar.org/">Mohammad Sajid Anwar</a> joined the team of editors in May 2018. He is <a href="https://metacpan.org/author/MANWAR">CPAN Author and Contributor</a>. He regularly blogs <a href="https://blogs.perl.org/users/mohammad_s_anwar/">here</a>. He enjoys submitting Pull Requests and speaking at Perl Conferences. He also loves spending time to help others to keep CPAN better source of information. Watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS0LRP3uwW4">this interview</a> with him. <a href="https://whitecamel.org/">White Camel</a> awardee. He runs <a href="https://theweeklychallenge.org/">The Weekly Challenge - Perl and Raku</a>. (168 issues) </div> <h2>Previous Editors</h2> <div id="handpicked"> <img src="img/yanick_champoux.png" alt="Yanick Champoux" /> Since the beginning of 2013 <a href="https://techblog.babyl.ca/">Yanick Champoux</a> is the co-editor of the newsletter. He used to write the bi-weekly <b>Shuck & Awe: Hunting for Perl</b>, he is a <a href="https://metacpan.org/author/YANICK">serious Perl programmer</a>, and a walking dictionary. Reading his <a href="https://techblog.babyl.ca/">writings</a> is always a challenge. A very enjoyable challenge. (63 issues) </div> <div id="handpicked"> <img src="img/neil_bowers.png" alt="Neil Bowers" /> Starting from October 2014 <a href="https://neilb.org/">Neil Bowers</a> became the 3rd co-editor of the newsletter. He writes plenty of articles comparing CPAN modules to each other and then <a href="https://metacpan.org/author/NEILB">taking over some of them</a>. He also runs <a href="https://www.cogendo.com/">his own company</a>, . Watch <a href="https://perlmaven.com/neil-bowers">this interview</a> with him. (55 issues) </div> <div id="handpicked"> <img src="img/upasana_shukla.png" alt="Upasana Shukla" /> <a href="https://upasana.me/">Upasana Shukla</a> joined the team of editors in August 2016. She got involved in the Perl community by participating in <a href="https://upasana.me/2013/05/18/meta-cpan-debian-wikimedia-twisted-dancer-moose/">GNOME's Outreach Program for Women</a> and <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/upasana/2013/10/yay-moose-is-free-from-stringy-exceptions.html">freeing Moose from stringy exceptions</a>. Since then she is unstoppable. She also has <a href="https://metacpan.org/author/SWEETKID">a number of modules on CPAN</a>. (11 issues) </div> <div id="handpicked"> <img src="img/ruth_bavousett.png" alt="D Ruth Holloway" /> <a href="https://about.me/druthb">D Ruth Holloway</a> joined the team of editors in October 2016. She used to work on software managing libraries and now she works for cPanel. She writes for Opensource.com. (19 issues) </div> <div id="handpicked"> If you'd like to <b>submit an article</b>, or get in touch with the editors, feel free to send an e-mail to the address gabor@szabgab.com </div>  <div id="testimonials"> <h2 id="testimonial_title">What the Readers Say</h2> <div class="testimonial"> <img src="img/testimonials/david_golden.png" alt="David Golden" /> <div class="quote">"I just wanted to mention again how much I enjoy your newsletter. I've nearly stopped following my Perl RSS feed because your curation is so good. Pulling all the 25th anniversary stories together was a great touch." </div> <div class="name">David Golden (dagolden)</div> <div class="desc"><a href="https://www.dagolden.com/">Blog writer</a>, <a href="https://www.bunchmail.com/">entrepreneur</a>, and prolific <a href="https://metacpan.org/author/DAGOLDEN">Perl developer</a> who has contributed to almost every aspect of the Perl code base and community. </div> </div> <div class="testimonial"> <img src="img/testimonials/olaf_alders.png" alt="Olaf Alders" /> <div class="quote">"The Perl Weekly is an excellent aggregation of all Perl things blog and newsworthy. I follow a lot of blog posts, but I find this weekly recap helps me find interesting stuff I may have missed."</div> <div class="name">Olaf Alders (oalders)</div> <div class="desc"><a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/olaf_alders/">Perl developer</a>, Owner of <a href="https://www.wundercounter.com/">Wunder Counter</a>. Creator of <a href="https://metacpan.org/">MetaCPAN</a>. </div> </div> <div class="testimonial"> <img src="img/testimonials/richard_dice.png" alt="Richard Dice" /> <div class="quote">"Thanks for putting together the newsletter. It's a helpful resource."</div> <div class="name">Richard Dice</div> <div class="desc"><a href="https://twitter.com/richarddice">@richarddice</a>, president of <a href="https://www.perlfoundation.org/">The Perl Foundation</a> from Aug 2007 till 2009.</div> </div> <div class="testimonial"> <img src="img/testimonials/andy_lester.png" alt="Andy Lester" /> <div class="quote">"I'm enjoying the article summaries in @szabgab's Perl Weekly. 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