In my last post, I wrote about how I made dzil workflower to install GitHub Actions into my Dist::Zilla-based dists’ repositories for automated testing. I also said I’d been reading O’Reilly’s Learning GitHub Actions. This week, I applied some more of what I learned from the book, and it was good.

Starting ages ago, once in a while somebody would show up and offer me a commit that would add some automated testing system to my open source repositories. I liked the idea, but it always felt like a free puppy. I didn’t know how it worked, I didn’t know how the YAML file (always YAML!) was put together, and I didn’t know what I was supposed to do when something went wrong.

Every time I store an API token in a plaintext file or an environment variable, it creates a lingering annoyance that follows me around whenever I go. Every year or two, another one of these lands on the pile. I am finally working on purging them all. I’m doing it with the 1Password CLI, and so far so good.

Years ago, I found an iOS app called World Uncovered. I used it for a while, then forgot about it, then started using it again. It’s pretty cool, and I keep telling people about it, so I thought I’d write a post about it.

One of the things I wrote at the first PTS (back when it was called the Perl QA Hackathon) was Module::Faker. I wrote about it back then (way back in 2008), and again eleven years later. It’s a library that, given a description of a (pretend) CPAN distribution, produces that distribution as an actual file on disk with all the files the dist should have.

Almost exactly a year since the last Perl Toolchain Summit, it was time for the next one, this time in Lisbon. Last year, I wrote:

A couple years ago, I posted about making a Prometheus exporter for my Chrome tab count. I had fun doing it, but unfortunately it made it onto Hacker News, which as always got a fair bit of missing-the-point. So it goes.

Almost a year ago, I started reading Fluent Python. I finished it yesterday, and I have to say, it was great. With a few big breaks for various uninteresting reasons, I read a chapter or two each weekend. It’s one of the best technical books I’ve read in years, and I think it’s going to significantly improve my use of Python.

For a few months now, I’ve been putting off reading any of the management and leadership related books in my queue. For whatever reason, my internal gears recently turned enough that I felt like picking one up. Probably it’s because I spent a week in Vienna. I should write about that, too. Anyway, I picked up one of the books on my list and read it, and that book was Meeting Design by Kevin M. Hoffman.

I guess feel a little sheepish that I’m not really going to play much Cutthroats. Maybe it’s some kind of shame at quitting early that made me stop the replay ages ago. This is silly, though. I don’t think the game is fun, and I don’t really want to force myself to sit through it.