Auto-instrument your code with OTel
A post from the Perl Advent Calendar showing what options are available to auto-instrument your code, why you might be interested, and what caveats come with it.
JJA
I write code for fun, and some times get paid to do it
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London Perl & Raku Workshop 2025
My thoughts on this version of the London Perl & Raku Workshop
Step into the cookie jar
Adding cookie support to HTTP::Tiny and the distributions released along the way. A talk given at The Raku Conference in the Cloud 2022.
Santa Kotlin is coming to Perl
A post from the Perl Advent Calendar with notes about what it takes to bind to Kotlin code from Perl using FFI::Platypus, and why this matters on a personal level.
Bundling specific modules
A previous post detailed how to bundle all the dependencies of a Perl project. This post expands that with some details on how to bundle specific vendored modules.
Porting from Go
Some notes on porting code from Go to Raku, and what I found along the way
Typesetting ToBI
Some personal notes on my choices when typesetting ToBI tone markers.
Introducing HTTP::Tiny
HTTP::Tiny has been release upon an unsuspecting world! Here's a little about why I wrote it, and why I think it might come in handy in the future.
Dissecting a Raku snippet
Dissecting a Raku snippet that wraps a subroutine in a self-unwrapping block of code.
Sharing command line parameters in Raku
Some things I learned about argument parsing when writing a command line tool in Raku