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xdg.me
Personal blog · dagolden.com/writingprogrammingwriting
xdg.me is a personal blog at dagolden.com about programming and writing. Since 2009, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the xdg.me blog for posts on Perl and CPAN, including Perl best practices and a CPAN release candidate. The comments are mostly bare links or brief mentions, with no judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/1757/updated-visualizing-p... This have gotten much better and perl 5 has great momentum these days. There was sort of a changing of the guard as a lot of the old guys moved on to perl6 or other things. However nowadays there is lots of fresh blood moving the project alone real nice like.
Comment linking /index.php/1757/updated-visualizing-perl-5-release-history/
on “Interview: Larry Wall”Submitted What’s new in Perl 5, Version 13 as a story · 59 points
HN discussionHere is a new comment (with links etc) on "Perl best practices" http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/199/time-for-second-editio...
Comment linking /index.php/199/time-for-second-edition-perl-best-practices/
on “Your Language Features Are My Libraries”Submitted Perl 5 and Perl 6 are mortal enemies as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere is a new release candidate for CPAN that sets up some very nice defaults for using CPAN: http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/1339/cpan-pm-release-candi...
Comment linking /index.php/1339/cpan-pm-release-candidate/
on “What’s so great about CPAN anyway?”Submitted Thoughts on getting Perl 6 for Christmas as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perl QA hackathon wrapup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visualizing Perl 5 release cycles as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The power of not being all things to all people as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five percent of indexed CPAN packages come from just two distributions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted OODA vs technical debt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hilight growls from irssi with Plack and ssh as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quick thought on use strict dogma as a story · 1 points
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