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NEILB
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NEILB is a personal blog at neilb.org about programming. Since 2013, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite neilb.org for Perl and CPAN context: the process for adopting unmaintained CPAN modules, a review of HTTP request libraries, and a piece on Perl 7 and the camel logo. Comments link these as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /adoption/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-13
What Hacker News says?
Not as simple as you think: http://neilb.org/2020/12/04/perl-and-camels.html
Comment linking /2020/12/04/perl-and-camels.html
on “What Happened to Perl 7?”Submitted There's no such thing as “The Perl Community” as a story · 36 points
HN discussion> Perl 6 depends upon the continued vibrancy of the CPAN community. Why do you say that? Is this a theoretical point, a reasonable conclusion based on reading about Perl 6, or something based on trying and failing to do something with Perl 6? > IMHO, CPAN is anything but vibrant by today's standards. Have you encountered problems that aren't being addressed? What do you make of the river cleanup effort[1] and the ne…
Comment linking /2015/04/20/river-of-cpan.html
on “Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what do you do with it?”Submitted How do you prepare a talk? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHis goal is to help address CPAN modules that might need some love, as evidenced by http://neilb.org/adoption/
Comment linking /adoption/
on “The CPAN Pull Request Challenge”Submitted The Hacker News API as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere is an adoption process for truly inactive maintainers: http://neilb.org/2013/07/24/adopt-a-module.html - you can also often get somewhere by just asking the current maintainer nicely by email. The timeliness of the process in the event of a non-repsonsive maintainer depends on luck and how much depends on the module. In the end it doesn't matter if a group or a person adopts it - someone still has to decide to…
Comment linking /2013/07/24/adopt-a-module.html
on “The Future of Perl”Submitted The CPAN Report 2013 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhow about this? http://neilb.org/2013/08/07/adoptme.html http://neilb.org/adoption/
Comment linking /adoption/
on “Perl Did That First”Submitted CPAN Report 2020 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere are some of the list resources: 20 Perl libraries for fetching web content - http://neilb.org/reviews/http-requesters.html An SO wiki page for html scraping - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2861/options-for-html-scr...
Comment linking /reviews/http-requesters.html
on “Web Scraping with Modern Perl (Part 2 - Speed Edition)”Submitted A Review of the 2015 CPAN Pull Request Challenge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis looks to be a partial version of https://dev.to/thibaultduponchelle/open-letter-to-tim-oreill... See also https://neilb.org/2020/12/04/perl-and-camels.html and https://dev.to/thibaultduponchelle/the-perl-complex-topic-of... The logo situation is a mess and I don't think it's actually anyone's fault. However, if O'Reilly could clearly assign rights to the camel for use as an official Perl logo, I think this woul…
Comment linking /2020/12/04/perl-and-camels.html
on “Open Letter to Tim O’Reilly to Free the Perl Camel”Submitted Which CPAN distributions have a GitHub repo? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pull request etiquette as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fighting CPAN entropy – A Perl special as a story · 1 points
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