Day 22 – Santa Claus is Rakuing Along

Part 1 of this article reported on the new journaling process for Santa’s employees and how they keep their individual work logs. Part 2 was a side step to show how to better manage Santa&#82…

Day 21 – Santa Claus is Rakuing Along

Santa was tired. He wanted to brag about his new reporting and analysis tools as he had planned, but he knew he had to rest up for his big day coming up soon (sorry, my friend Juan Merelo, for the …

2021.51 Transiting

Arne Sommer was inspired by public transport developments in their native Oslo. This resulted in a cool new module Transit::Network, but also a serious blog post: Planning Public Transportation wit…

Day 19 – Let it Cro

Ah, advent. That time of year when the shops are filled with the sound of Christmas songs – largely, the very same ones they played when I was a kid. They’re a bit corny, but the famili…

Day 16: Reindeer Express

Santa didn’t know if he should be worried or angry, and that made him angry. Unbeknown to the world he had been outsourcing a lot of the production of Christmas gifts to low cost countries li…

Day 15: 1 year of Comma

This year was yet another productive year for Comma, the Raku programming language IDE. Our small team has worked on numerous small improvements and bug fixes, as well as bigger features. In this a…

2021.50 _ for Micros

Daniel Sockwell wrote two advent blog posts (1, 2) about the problem of dependencies. This resulted in the release of the _ module (aka “lowbar” module), a growing collection of micro p…

Day 13 – Coloring your tools holidays

And if you’re in doubt yet whether Santa was really overloaded last year, just check out the advent calendar of 2020. That’s why back then I fetched out an old, dusty reddish-white cap,…

Day 12 – A long journey to Ethereum signatures

The Ethereum blockchain is essentially a transaction-based state machine. We begin with a blank state, before any transactions have happened on the network, and move into some final state when tran…

Day 11: Unix philosophy without left-pad, Part 2: Minimizing dependencies with a utilities package

In the previous post, I made a case for why programming languages should have a utility library that provides small-but-commonly-needed functions. Today I’m introducing a Raku package that I hope w…

Day 10: Java Annotations in Raku or my @annotation is role;

Today, a little about the fact that the new is better absorbed through the already known. It so happened that I write for $dayjob in Java, so I will come from this side. Java 1.5 introduces an inte…

Day 9 – Raku code coverage

Although I love using Raku, the fact that it is still a relatively young language means that there is a fair amount that is lacking when it comes to tooling, etc. Until recently, this included a wa…

Day 8 – Practice… on Advent of Code

“Hrmpf!” mutter mutter mutter “Bah!” The head elf Fooby Nimblecalmy was trying to to read an interesting article on Ramsey Theory, but was having a hard time because the lat…

Day 7: Neural Nets in Raku (Part 1)

Thinky the Elf was sitting in his office, it had been a closet but he’d been given it as his office after the great baked beans incident. It wasn’t his fault. He was right that feeding …

Day 2 – Rotation of Log files in a nutshell

Santa has a cloud-based application that helps him to deliver the gifts to the children. Once the gifts have been delivered Santa registers the delivery operation through the deliveries.log file. J…

Batteries Included: Generating Thumbnails

It was a cold wintry night in the North Pole and Santa was in a mood. “Naughty. Naughty. Naughty. Ni..aughty” he grumbled, checking his list. Then checking it again. “Everything o…

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2021.48 Raku at FOSDEM 2022

Good news from the FOSDEM organizers: there will be an online Raku DevRoom at FOSDEM 2022. Please stay tuned for more information on how to make sure you can get a presentation in. And of course, t…