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Mark Gardner
Personal blog · phoenixtrap.comprogrammingphilosophy
Mark Gardner writes The Phoenix Trap, a personal blog at phoenixtrap.com about programming and philosophy. Since 2021, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Personal blog of Mark Gardner. I help Perl developers build modern, disciplined applications by writing easy-to-maintain code with confidence.
Most-linked posts?
- The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-10-19
- Better Perl with subroutine signatures and type validation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-27
- Perl Warnings and the Warn Function2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-04
- Cutting the fat: Lightweight Perl OO modules2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-07
- At 34 for v5.34: Modern Perl features for Perl's birthday2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-21
What Hacker News says?
Submitted The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated as a story · 105 points
HN discussionSubmitted The four noisy horsemen of Perl hate as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should Perl die gracefully? as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Funhouse Mirror of Perl Criticism as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted At 34 for v5.34: Modern Perl features for Perl's birthday as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cutting the fat: Lightweight Perl OO modules as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Porting from Perl to Go: Simplifying for Platform Engineering as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perl Warnings and the Warn Function as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perl list processing is for hashes, too as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted At 34 for v5.34: Modern Perl features for Perl's birthday as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vicious (test) mockery of a Perl modulino as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Read The Fantastic Manual: How to get the most out of Perl documentation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cutting the Fat: Lightweight Perl OO Modules as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's Next for Object-Oriented Perl? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perl test coverage when you don't have a Makefile as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging a Web Application in Perl as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How much is that BLÅHAJ in the (terminal) window? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perl Warnings and the Warn Function as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sweeter Perl Exception Classes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some thoughts on Perl template processing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Follow-up: Using a more purpose-made module to shorten a Perl and Raku script as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perl and XML in 2021: A few lessons learned as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better Perl with subroutine signatures and type validation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 5 Ways You Can Embrace the Magic of Perl as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better Perl with subroutine signatures and type validation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multiple Ways to Inheritance in Perl as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taming the Moose: Classing up Perl attributes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Switching up my switches in Perl as a story · 1 points
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