CCR | The Raku Programming Language Collect, Conserve and Remaster Project

This directory contains remastered versions of 378 blog posts by Carl Mäsak.

2008-08-17 Announcing November, a wiki in Raku
2008-08-24 November meets the Web
2008-08-29 Rakudo: the good, the cool, the awesome, the bad, the ugly and the weird
2008-09-03 Comments
2008-09-03 Lovely patchers
2008-09-24 I’ll call you back
2008-10-23 Nonlinear development history
2008-11-01 November 1 2008 — the .end is here
2008-11-03 November 2, 2008 — one step forward, two steps back
2008-11-04 November 3, 2008 — today is Skin Monday!
2008-11-04 November 4, 2008 — “bug wrangler”
2008-11-05 November 5, 2008 — remember, remember
2008-11-07 November 6, 2008 — making waves
2008-11-08 November 7, 2008 — just walk into the building
2008-11-09 November 8, 2008 — the joys of discovery
2008-11-09 November 9, 2008 — developing code is like baking bread
2008-11-10 November 10, 2008 — sleep deprivation, I presume?
2008-11-11 November 11, 2008 — the calm after the storm
2008-11-13 November 12, 2008 — blowing stuff up
2008-11-14 November 13, 2008 — the storm after the storm
2008-11-14 November 14, 2008 — pioneers
2008-11-15 November 15, 2008 — a pact
2008-11-17 November 16, 2008 — the right man for the job
2008-11-18 November 17, 2008 — it’s a small step for a robotic dog…
2008-11-18 November 18, 2008 — of mice and babies
2008-11-20 November 19, 2008 — things to keep in mind
2008-11-21 November 20, 2008 — fifty thousand orbits around the Earth
2008-11-22 November 21, 2008 — a torrent of things
2008-11-23 November 22, 2008 — there’s more than one way to write it
2008-11-24 November 23, 2008 — the rite to write
2008-11-25 November 24, 2008 — evolving things
2008-11-25 November 25, 2008 — the lexbug of death is dead
2008-11-27 November 26, 2008 — we come in peace! bzzz…
2008-11-28 November 27, 2008 — it’s just a fleshwound
2008-11-29 November 28, 2008 — “…take thee, Annam Whatley…”
2008-11-30 November 29, 2008 — “I will call it ‘the graphophone’!”
2008-12-01 November 30, 2008 — improvements
2008-12-05 That was the month that was
2008-12-20 Fun with code blocks in Raku
2008-12-23 This is your chance to write Raku code! Yes, you!
2008-12-27 The care and feeding of S29
2008-12-30 Scripters, now is the time!
2009-01-03 A Perl one-liner grows up
2009-01-08 A farewell to ideas
2009-01-13 Pretending that Envy is one of the Perl virtues
2009-01-27 Three bugs that bug me right now
2009-02-08 Attitude
2009-03-06 November won a prize
2009-03-06 Throwing confetti
2009-03-09 Week 1 of Web.pm — Specifying a framework basics
2009-03-14 Code reviews — a manifesto
2009-03-15 A code review of Pod::Parser, written by mberends
2009-03-16 Week 2 of Web.pm — Creating a minimal Web framework
2009-03-24 Week 3 of Web.pm — Creating a minimal Web framework, cont’d
2009-04-12 Week 4 of Web.pm — Web apps, the first hesitant steps
2009-04-19 NPW 2009 without the verbs
2009-04-25 Week 5 of Web.pm — more tinkering everywhere
2009-04-26 The totally undeserved fame and success of proto
2009-05-04 Week 6 of Web.pm — Hitomi draft, November work
2009-05-05 ‘Et tu, bruteforce?’
2009-05-07 Comments broken on perlfoundation [UPDATED]
2009-05-10 Writing a Raku blogging app in 90 minutes
2009-05-13 Week 7 of Web.pm — blogs, Hitomi and server agnosticism
2009-05-17 Barefoot
2009-05-24 How Raku just sells itself
2009-06-01 Week 8 of Web.pm — some Druid and Hitomi fiddling
2009-06-07 How can we scale kindness?
2009-06-17 No update today
2009-06-17 Week 9 of Web.pm — encodings, and a deep dive into Genshi
2009-06-19 3D, baby!
2009-06-21 Asking #perl about Modern Perl
2009-06-26 Reading up on MVC, part 1: Ruby on Rails
2009-07-03 Week 10 of Web.pm — Genshi, Grampa and some docs
2009-07-06 Str and Buf — I think I get it now
2009-07-06 The Genetic Code one-liner in Raku
2009-07-10 Reading up on MVC, part 2: Catalyst
2009-07-20 The reverse boiling frog effect
2009-07-21 Why I like having Tene on the team
2009-07-22 Three things in Raku that aren’t so great
2009-07-26 Week 11 of Web.pm — Hitomi does templating
2009-07-29 Some Perlmonks password statistics
2009-08-02 Week 12 of Web.pm — a spec and smartlinks
2009-08-11 Raku is my MMORPG
2009-08-16 Week 13 of Web.pm — abstracting away the webserver, live!
2009-08-18 The Cult of Done
2009-08-24 Week 14 of Web.pm — a persistence module
2009-09-01 An introduction to maze-making (in Literate Raku)
2009-09-05 Cheese speleology
2009-09-08 The April List: things I think ought to work in Rakudo Star
2009-09-17 Helpfully addictive: TDD on crack
2009-09-21 Week 15 of Web.pm — another, better persistence module
2009-09-28 Week 16 of Web.pm — more Squerl work
2009-10-04 The dot is the cutest sigil
2009-10-06 Some thoughts on tote
2009-10-11 Laziness for the impatient
2009-10-12 Week 17 of Web.pm — putting Druid on the Web
2009-10-21 The joy of breaking stuff
2009-10-24 Week 18 of Web.pm — the rubber meets the road
2009-10-29 I’m in for an interesting month
2009-11-01 Here we go again; another full month of November
2009-11-02 November 1 2009 — a somewhat shaky start
2009-11-03 November 2 2009 — fighting servers and giant squids
2009-11-04 November 3 2009 — doing it with style and sophistication
2009-11-05 November 4 2009 — no log in for you!
2009-11-06 November 5 2009 — hanging in there
2009-11-07 November 6 2009 — wait, that’s not gold…
2009-11-07 November 7 2009 — hasten the process of de-branchification
2009-11-08 November 8 2009 — people may call you a troll, but…
2009-11-08 The “Raku is not Perl” meme
2009-11-08 Week 19 of Web.pm — building a tutorial
2009-11-09 November 9 2009 — stuff comes tumbling down, yay!
2009-11-11 November 10 2009 — think of the children!
2009-11-12 November 11 2009 — nobody said it was going to be easy
2009-11-13 November 12 2009 — some serious history awareness
2009-11-14 November 13 2009 — crying wolf and slinging mud
2009-11-14 November 14 2009 — it’s a slightly smaller step for a man
2009-11-16 November 15 2009 — money gets inflated, time gets deflated
2009-11-17 November 16 2009 — digging into some real paperwork
2009-11-18 How Raku could kill us all!
2009-11-18 November 17 2009 — the force is strong with this one
2009-11-19 November 18 2009 — the history mystery
2009-11-19 Rakudo Raku development release #23 (“Lisbon”)
2009-11-20 November 19 2009 — a feeling of power, a feeling of release
2009-11-20 November 20 2009 — big battles, small commits
2009-11-21 November 21 2009 — you mean the media distort the truth?
2009-11-22 What you can do with GGE::OPTable that you couldn’t without
2009-11-23 November 22 2009 — think globally, act globally
2009-11-23 November 23 2009 — of China(s) and cheese
2009-11-25 November 24 2009 — a sort of leap of faith
2009-11-25 Upcoming: the 7 wonders of the ancient Raku grammar engine
2009-11-26 November 25 2009 — you guys can be on our team
2009-11-26 November 26 2009 — all is fair if you’re rewriting Time
2009-11-28 November 27 2009 — straight towards the surface
2009-11-28 November 28 2009 — do you want enfranchisement with that?
2009-11-30 November 29 2009 — drowning in workarounds
2009-12-01 November 30 2009 — gobsmacked but still in the loop
2009-12-05 November in the rearview mirror
2009-12-11 Some module names don’t deserve to be short
2009-12-18 The wish, the tuning fork, and the one true heir
2009-12-27 Notation, and the ‘business case’ for Raku
2010-01-01 Highlights of Raku spec changes of 2009
2010-01-08 Adding ‘goto’ to your Raku program
2010-01-16 Ovid is right: roles are awesome
2010-01-19 The taming of the newbie - a comedy on IRC
2010-01-22 Code generation and stone soup
2010-01-29 Mildew, Sprixel, Vill: In praise of the alternatives
2010-02-04 Blast from the past: E02
2010-02-08 The typo trap: a farcical FAQ
2010-02-15 Ok, so the ante is upped: E03
2010-02-20 E03, the modern, pragmatic, honest version, with corners cut
2010-03-02 I’m a snowplow
2010-03-09 The ghost of Algol 68
2010-03-16 Plain old assignment, and freaky binding
2010-03-22 Pushups, repetition, and newbies
2010-03-29 Step 1 on the road to recovery: admitting you have a problem
2010-04-01 Yapsi 2010.04 Released!
2010-04-09 It’s about time
2010-04-14 Levels
2010-04-22 I can haz constant?
2010-04-29 GSoC, contextuals, and intolerance (three posts in one)
2010-05-01 Yapsi 2010.05 Released!
2010-05-02 Raku: the Frankenstein’s monster of operators
2010-05-09 The tests Rakudo doesn’t run
2010-05-21 The trip to Moscow and the DevConf talk (iambic pentameter)
2010-05-28 Week 1 of GSoC work on Buf — not a chocolate cake recipe
2010-05-31 GGE now runs fine on Rakudo master
2010-06-01 Yapsi 2010.06 Released!
2010-06-05 Week 2 of GSoC work on Buf — the power of Swedish beer
2010-06-08 This Week’s Contribution to Raku Week 6
2010-06-14 Week 3 of GSoC work on Buf — talk like a Parrot day
2010-06-17 It isn’t quite TDD, but I like it
2010-06-18 Announce: Rakudo Raku development release #30 (“Kiev”)
2010-06-28 Weeks 4 and 5 of GSoC work on Buf — chrono-flies
2010-07-01 Yapsi 2010.07 Released!
2010-07-02 Speaking hypothetically in Raku
2010-07-04 Dreaming in mixins
2010-07-10 Weeks 6 and 7 of GSoC work on Buf — roundtrip
2010-07-11 Iterating your way to happiness with Raku
2010-07-15 Phasers are a blast: FIRST and LAST
2010-07-18 Happy 10th anniversary, Raku
2010-07-23 6 built-ins in Raku that you never knew you needed
2010-08-02 Yapsi 2010.08 Released!
2010-08-05 Raku and Perl are different languages
2010-08-10 There’s just no way to keep up with all you people
2010-08-14 Weeks 8..12 of GSoC work on Buf — not packing it in yet
2010-08-22 Where in the world is the package lexpad?
2010-08-27 Idiomatic Raku
2010-09-02 Yapsi 2010.09 Released!
2010-09-06 The Pugs repository is dead; long live Mu!
2010-09-29 Dog food with a distinct Raku flavor
2010-09-29 It’s just a tree, silly!
2010-10-07 To take arms against a sea of bitrot
2010-10-10 Impressions from the trip to Paris
2010-10-15 A sudden insight
2010-10-17 Extending the syntax of Raku
2010-10-29 Second system syndrome done wrong
2010-11-01 Yet another month of November
2010-11-02 November 1 2010 — quick, decisive action
2010-11-02 November 2 2010 — some quick, decisive looting action
2010-11-02 Yapsi 2010.11 Released!
2010-11-03 November 3 2010 — reform and improvement
2010-11-05 November 4 2010 — untuit overflow
2010-11-05 November 5 2010 — aim for the eye!
2010-11-06 November 6 2010 — ideals, separation, and pragmatism
2010-11-07 November 7 2010 — man, do we suck at this
2010-11-09 November 8 2010 — Druid is back in town
2010-11-09 November 9 2010 — this is an ex-shogun
2010-11-11 November 10 2010 — why don’t you bottom-up?
2010-11-12 November 11 2010 — avAST!
2010-11-12 November 12 2010 — plan of attack
2010-11-14 Extending the multi dispatcher in Raku
2010-11-14 November 13 2010 — burning tuits
2010-11-14 November 14 2010 — around and about
2010-11-16 November 15 2010 — taking charge and getting stuff done
2010-11-16 November 16 2010 — the polite revolt
2010-11-17 November 17 2010 — suppression and regressions
2010-11-19 November 18 2010 — insert obvious “In Soviet Russia” joke here
2010-11-20 November 19 2010 — I’ve got good news and bad news
2010-11-20 November 20 2010 — leftmost longest whale wins
2010-11-22 November 21 2010 — just a few wrinkles to iron out
2010-11-23 November 22 2010 — bring ‘em on!
2010-11-24 November 23 2010 — all the world’s a stage
2010-11-25 November 24 2010 — the guilty hiding among the innocent
2010-11-25 November 25 2010 — the truth emerges
2010-11-26 November 26 2010 — all in the name of saucepans
2010-11-28 November 27 2010 — urban planning
2010-11-29 November 28 2010 — returning to the oldies
2010-11-30 November 29 2010 — some kind of resolution
2010-12-01 November 30 2010 — going out with style
2010-12-02 Yapsi 2010.12 Released!
2010-12-09 Best. November. EVER.
2010-12-10 masak’s Raku Coding Contest
2010-12-26 I’m doing science and I’m still alive
2011-01-02 Yapsi 2011.01 Released!
2011-01-16 The Raku Coding Contest is now closed
2011-01-19 p1: Best way to multiply a chain of matrices
2011-01-22 p2: Is the point in the polygon?
2011-01-22 p3: Is the integer in the rangeset?
2011-01-28 A quick p6cc status update
2011-01-31 The thing with Nim
2011-02-05 Yapsi 2011.02 Released!
2011-02-06 That is so octal
2011-02-15 There’s plurality in wrongness
2011-02-15 p4: Pick the last pair of stones
2011-03-08 p5: Find the longest common substring
2011-03-15 Longest common substrings: a New Hope
2011-03-26 Announcing the winner of masak’s Raku Coding Contest 2010
2011-05-02 Yapsi 2011.05 Released!
2011-05-31 A month of blogging about programming fundamentals
2011-06-01 June 1 2011: Input and output
2011-06-02 June 2 2011: Variables
2011-06-04 June 3 2011: If statements
2011-06-04 June 4 2011: Loops
2011-06-05 June 5 2011: Guess a number
2011-06-06 June 6 2011: Building strings
2011-06-07 June 7 2011: Arithmetics
2011-06-08 June 8 2011: Parts of strings
2011-06-10 June 10 2011: a moon lander
2011-06-11 Fail firmly
2011-06-11 June 11 2011: arrays
2011-06-12 June 12 2011: for loops
2011-06-13 June 13 2011: regexes
2011-06-14 June 14 2011: Logic operators
2011-06-15 June 15 2011: chomp!
2011-06-17 June 16 2011: Subroutines
2011-06-18 June 17 2011: Hashes
2011-06-19 June 18 2011: Junctions
2011-06-19 June 19 2011: Reading files
2011-06-21 June 20 2011: Hangman
2011-06-28 June 21 2011: Nested data structures
2011-06-28 More planning
2011-06-29 June 22 2011: Format strings
2011-06-30 June 23 2011: map and grep
2011-07-02 June 24 2011: Types
2011-07-03 June 25 2011: Connect 4
2011-07-04 June 26 2011: Signatures
2011-07-04 June 27 2011: Classes
2011-07-06 June 28 2011: Roles
2011-07-18 June 29 2011: Text Adventure I
2011-07-24 June 30 2011: Text Adventure II
2011-07-25 What I learned from the June blogging
2011-08-22 YAPC::EU without the adjectives and adverbs
2011-08-27 Why tests will change the way you code (if they haven’t already)
2011-08-28 -n and -p
2011-09-05 -n and -p, part two
2011-09-10 -n and -p, part three
2011-10-15 Macros — what are they, really?
2011-11-08 Macro grant accepted
2011-12-01 Macros progress report: a bit of D1
2011-12-25 The 2011 Raku Coding Contest
2011-12-28 The -c flag
2012-01-29 Macros progress report: interesting things
2012-01-29 The Raku Coding Contest (2011 edition) is now closed
2012-02-03 t1: Expressing integers using four nines
2012-02-05 A four-quarter plan for psyde
2012-02-12 t2: Sums of cubes
2012-03-10 Macros progress report: D1 merged
2012-03-14 t3: Addition chains
2012-03-25 Counting t4 configurations
2012-04-22 Revenge of the Oslo hackathon
2012-04-22 Speed up by a factor of 6 million
2012-05-16 t4: Hex puzzle
2012-05-28 Macros progress report: quantum yak shaving
2012-06-30 t5: Enumerating trees
2012-07-01 Another month of blogging: adventure game, here I come!
2012-07-02 July 1 2012 — Hanoi as a black box
2012-07-02 July 2 2012 — implementing Hanoi
2012-07-03 July 3 2012 — testing the adventure game, looking around
2012-07-04 July 4 2012 — moving around I (compass directions)
2012-07-06 July 5 2012 — moving around II (up/down, in/out)
2012-07-06 July 6 2012 — room descriptions (look)
2012-07-07 July 7 2012 — saving and restoring
2012-07-08 July 8 2012 — blocked exits
2012-07-09 July 9 2012 — things and descriptions
2012-07-10 July 10 2012 — things which can be opened
2012-07-11 July 11 2012 — things which contain other things
2012-07-13 July 12 2012 — platform things
2012-07-13 July 13 2012 — things which you can read
2012-07-14 July 14 2012 — hidden things which can be revealed
2012-07-16 July 15 2012 — things which can be carried around
2012-07-17 July 16 2012 — things which are part of the scenery
2012-07-17 July 17 2012 — getting things from the car
2012-07-18 Talking to my 14yo self
2012-07-19 July 18 2012 — finding the door in the grass
2012-07-20 July 19 2012 — filling your car with leaves
2012-07-21 July 20 2012 — putting the leaves in the basket
2012-07-21 July 21 2012 — it’s too dark in here!
2012-07-23 July 22 2012 — playing the Hanoi game
2012-07-23 July 23 2012 — being blocked by the fire
2012-07-25 July 24 2012 — fetching water
2012-07-26 July 25 2012 — putting out the fire
2012-07-27 July 26 2012 — doom and cavern collapse
2012-07-28 July 27 2012 — triggering doom and dying
2012-07-28 July 28 2012 — moving around III (movement synonyms)
2012-07-30 July 29 2012 — verb synonyms
2012-07-31 July 30 2012 — tying up various loose ends
2012-07-31 July 31 2012 — the finished game
2012-10-26 Sweet ports
2012-11-02 Macros progress report: D2 merged
2012-12-14 The 2012 Raku Coding Contest
2013-01-19 The Raku Coding Contest (2012 edition) is now closed
2013-02-01 I am going to FOSDEM
2013-02-16 Raku is now half as old as Perl
2013-02-22 t1: Tell knights from knaves
2013-04-24 The #masakism workshop
2013-04-24 The #masakism workshop
2013-04-25 t2: Rectangle haikus
2013-05-05 After the #masakism workshop
2013-05-31 A VM for 6model
2013-08-29 t3: Wire crossings
2014-01-04 Lexpads and why roles need fixups
2014-03-23 Parsing indented text
2014-05-30 t4: Rain in a world of cubes
2014-06-16 Boxes and pebbles
2014-10-02 Macros progress report: after a long break
2014-10-13 Macros: thunkish parameters
2014-10-14 Feedback on “Macros: thunkish parameters”
2014-10-14 Macros: nesting macros
2014-11-28 Macros: “Define Your Own Literals” Day
2014-12-04 Macros: Placeholdeeers!
2014-12-13 Feedback on “Macros: Placeholdeeers!”
2015-02-15 You’re in a space of twisty little mazes, all alike
2015-04-10 Here be heredocs
2015-05-25 Send more money (in Raku)
2015-06-06 When I don’t even feel like using blame
2015-10-17 Macros: Your macro has been put on hold
2015-10-27 Macros: Time travel is hard
2015-12-08 Double-oh seven
2015-12-31 Strategic rebasing
2016-01-17 Macros: what the FAQ are they?
2016-04-28 Trinity
2016-06-18 Train tracks
2016-09-21 Where in the sky
2016-09-28 The curious case of the disappearing test
2017-02-01 Deep Git
2017-04-22 The root of all eval
2017-12-08 Has it been three years?
2019-05-05 Refactoring the universe