At our last Vienna.pm meeting at Cafe Else we talked about brian's recent blog post on new Unicode 10 emojis in Perl 5.28. I noticed that some of them have ridiculous long names: 🤭 (U+1F92D) SMILING FACE WITH SMILING EYES AND HAND COVERING MOUTH So I wondered which code point has the longest description. Spoiler It's this: ﯹ (U+FBF9) ARABIC ...
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Previously on YEF (This is my personal account on the history of YEF. Other past or current members might have a different story) YEF (a meta-acronym for YAPC Europe Foundation, where YAPC stands for Yet Another Perl Conference) was founded around 2005 by various previous YAPC organizers to help future organizers. The main services are: ...
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This year I did not manage (was not in the mood) to take notes during to conference, so this is not my traditional "Things I learned ..." post. I hope you like it anyway... So, Glasgow... It was a great conference at an amazing venue, which was even topped by the attendees dinner location. I ate one deep fried Mars bar and countless cookies. I ...
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At the European Perl Conference 2018 in Glasgow we had a BoF. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_a_feather about organizing Perl conferences and events. I set it up because in the last two years (2018 and 2019) we did not get any proposals to host the conference from the community (and luckily were saved by crazy people who agreed to host the
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As a side project, I'm currently working on yet another disqus clone, senph, as seen at the end of this very post. For a frontend, I choose vue.js. In this talk, I try to explain vue.js (and a bit of JavaScript) as my Perl brain understands it. Slides: Slides for the European Perl Conference 2018 in Glasgow; ...
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