Latvia
20.08.2019:
Kolka (15.8. - 20.8.)
After the city we went to the where the Baltic sea and the Gulf of Riga merge: Kolka.
hiking along the sandy beaches and through the forests
dozing / reading on the beach
dipping the feet into the water (for proper swimming it was a bit cold, plus you'd have to walk about 1 km into the water ... it is very shallow here)
collecting plastic ...
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Picture of the Day: Cross-waves
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Perl
19.08.2019:
Topic Analysis of PerlCon 2019 talks
I have been saying for quite a long time that we should market our conferences and events more to non-Perl developers.
I think we as a Perl community could greatly profit from having some fresh input from other communities, and the other communities might realize that Perl is a nice, beautiful language (family) which you can use for sane (and ...
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Latvia
15.08.2019:
Riga (10.8. - 15.8.)
We spend a few days in Rīga, doing among other things:
walking tour through the old town
visit the National Library & the Museum of Occupation
ate a lot of cake
hang around in semi-punky bars (Autentika, Laska)
went shopping for vegetables and blueberries at the Central Market
and generally walked a lot through the Old Town, Central Riga, ...
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Perl
10.08.2019:
PerlCon 2019 in Rīga
This year our Perl conference took place in Rīga under the new and improved name PerlCon. Improving names was generally a hot topic, I won't go into details here, but please do checkout the discussion and participate!
Andrew Shitov and Grigorii Filomafitskii did a great job organizing another wonderful Perl conference, for the second time in ...
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Reisen
10.08.2019:
Latvia
After PerlCon 2019, B. joined me in Rīga for two more weeks of holidays in ...
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Microblog
PostgreSQL query of the day: UPDATE paragraph SET args = jsonb_set(args,'{audio_url}',('"' || regexp_replace(args->>'audio_url','old-host.at','new-host.at') || '"')::jsonb) WHERE type = 'audio' AND args->>'audio_url' LIKE '%old-host.at%';
20.05.2019 22:15:26
things I never wanted to learn #231: to round a value in libreoffice writer, use '=<C6>*24 round 1' not the more obvious '=ROUND(<C6>*24; 1)' from Calc
03.01.2019 12:01:39
typo of the day: git ci -m 'remove debug outpur'
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