Readit NewsOn day 13 of The Perl Advent Calendar Chris Prather tells how Santa's workshop rebuilt their NaughtyNice system in 24 days using "No Estimates"—breaking work into daily slices and measuring throughput instead of guessing timelines.
oalders commented on The Night Before Deployment: How Melian Saved Christmas perladvent.org/2025/2025-... · Posted by u/oalders
On day 12 of The Perl Advent Calendar Sawyer X shows us how Melian, a high-speed in-memory caching server, reduces database query times from milliseconds to microseconds by loading tables into memory.
oalders commented on Teaching Art to Computers the Hard Way perladvent.org/2025/2025-... · Posted by u/oalders
On day 11 of The Perl Advent Calendar D Ruth Holloway demonstrates how to generate Mondrian-style abstract art paintings using Perl with Moo, Imager, and SVG modules.
oalders commented on All I Want for Christmas Is the Right Aspect Ratio perladvent.org/2025/2025-... · Posted by u/oalders
On day 2 of the 2025 Perl Advent Calendar, Dave Cross walks us through how Pixie the Elf uses App::BlurFill to change the aspect ratio of an image.
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