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2024.29 Intel -exprJIT +5% - Rakudo Weekly News
rakudoweekly.blog 2024.29 Intel -exprJIT +5%A bit of a scare just before the 2024.06 release of Rakudo caused some further investigation into the expression JIT logic in MoarVM on Intel processors. It was followed by the realization that the…
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Toolbox languages - Hillel Wayne
www.hillelwayne.com Toolbox languagesA toolbox language is a programming language that’s good at solving problems without requiring third party packages. My default toolbox languages are Python and shell scripts, which you probably already know about. Here are some of my more obscure ones. AutoHotKey Had to show up! Autohotkey is basic...
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2024.28 100 Year LLM - Rakudo Weekly News
rakudoweekly.blog 2024.28 100 Year LLMWenzel P.P. Peppmeyer was inspired by a problem solving issue, and decided to ask a Llama: the result was a yaw dropping answer. Conference Videos The Raku videos of the conference in Las Vegas tha…
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Sparky - composable user interfaces for internal services - Alexey Melezhik
dev.to Sparky - composable user interfaces for internal servicesHow to build user interfaces for internal web applications
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Continued Learnings - Scott Sotka
dev.to Continued LearningsAfter writing my original post Learnings in Raku and Pg Concurrency I learned a few more things to...
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2024.27 Concurrency Learnings - Rakudo Weekly News
rakudoweekly.blog 2024.27 Concurrency LearningsScott Sotka has published a nice blog post about how they started using Raku in production, and what they learned to make that all happen: Learnings in Raku and Pg Concurrency. Nice to see that thi…
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Learnings in Raku and Pg Concurrency - Scott Sotka
dev.to Learnings in Raku and Pg ConcurrencyI've been making my living with Perl 5 and PostgreSQL since the mid 90's but lately I've been giving...
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2024.26 CCR Matters - Rakudo Weekly News
rakudoweekly.blog 2024.26 CCR MattersA potential defacement of a blog spotted by Ralph Mellor, showed the importance of the Raku Collect, Conserve and Remaster Project. So if you’re looking around for something to do in the holi…
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Geographic Data in Raku Demo - Anton Antonov
rakuforprediction.wordpress.com Geographic Data in Raku DemoBlog post that summarizes a presentation about geographic data in Raku.
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2024.25 Geographically Explained - Rakudo Weekly News
rakudoweekly.blog 2024.25 Geographically ExplainedAnton Antonov has made a nice video about how you can use the Raku Programming Language to generate (interactive) graphics from large amounts of data. And also discusses future plans (/r/rakulang c…
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Sparky - hacking minikube with mini tool - Alexey Melezhik
dev.to Sparky - hacking minikube with mini toolTL; DR: How to deploy docker to minikube when one does not need anything fancy, but pure...
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2024.24 Always Sommer - Rakudo Weekly News
rakudoweekly.blog 2024.24 Always SommerFor the past five+ years, Arne Sommer has been publishing blog posts about the Raku Programming Language just about every week. Usually as part of the Weekly Challenge, but also more generally abou…
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2024.23 Sparkling - Rakudo Weekly News
rakudoweekly.blog 2024.23 SparklingAlexey Melezhik blogged about Sparky, their flexible and minimalist continuous integration server and distributed task runner written in Raku. The post titled “Sparky – simple and effic…
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Sparky - simple and efficient alternative to Ansible - Alexey Melezhik
dev.to Sparky - simple and efficient alternative to AnsibleHow to manage hundreds of hosts with Sparky
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2024.22 Detect Incoming - Rakudo Weekly News
rakudoweekly.blog 2024.22 Detect IncomingMarc Carson continued blogging, this week with “Detect Incoming Asteroids! …With JPL, NASA, and Raku”. A nice tutorial indeed about using external information resources in every d…
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Age at creation for programming languages stats - Anton Antonov
rakuforprediction.wordpress.com Age at creation for programming languages statsIn this post we ingest programming languages creation data from “Programming Language DataBase” and visualize several statistics of it.
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Love Notes - Steve Roe
rakujourney.wordpress.com Perl Love NotesFor a while I have been collecting unattributed and unsolicited positive comments about perl. I think that these are largely applicable to raku, the language formerly known as perl6, also authored …
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2024.21 Curry Primed - Rakudo Weekly News
rakudoweekly.blog 2024.21 Curry PrimedA long standing documentation Pull Request by Daniel Sockwell has been merged by Will Coleda: basically replacing the term “curry” by “prime”. And this was the start of quit…
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Just How Functional is Raku? - Steve Roe
rakujourney.wordpress.com Just How Functional is Raku?I have been keen to improve my functional style of coding in Raku and so I looked at Elm for inspiration and purity. Apologies for the pdf – but do take a look and you will see how I was able…
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Chatbook New Magic Cells - Anton Antonov
rakuforprediction.wordpress.com Chatbook New Magic CellsIn this blog post (notebook), we showcase the recently added “magic” cells (in May 2024) to the notebooks of “Jupyter::Chatbook”.
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2024.20 Doc Announcing - Rakudo Weekly News
rakudoweekly.blog 2024.20 Doc AnnouncingThanks to the work of Richard Hainsworth and the Raku documentation and Raku infra team, the Raku Documentation website now has a date-stamped list of announcements. And every time there’s a …
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2024.19 Behaviorally Constrained - Rakudo Weekly News
rakudoweekly.blog 2024.19 Behaviorally ConstrainedAn interesting discussion about a recurring WAT for many new Raku users, was initiated by landyacht in problem solving issue Behavior of type-constrained parameters is surprising given other behavi…
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WWW::WolframAlpha - Anton Antonov
rakuforprediction.wordpress.com WWW::WolframAlphaThis blog post proclaims the Raku package “WWW::WolframAlpha” that provides access to the answer engine Wolfram|Alpha.
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ML::NLPTemplateEngine - Anton Antonov
rakuforprediction.wordpress.com ML::NLPTemplateEngineThis blog posts proclaims and describes the Raku package “ML::NLPTemplateEnine” that aims to create (nearly) executable code for various computational workflows
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2024.18 Over The Finish Line - Rakudo Weekly News
rakudoweekly.blog 2024.18 Over The Finish LineRaku Core developer and Raku Steering Council member Stefan Seifert has submitted a Grant Proposal to accelerate the development of RakuAST continuing in the footsteps of Jonathan Worthington. A wo…
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2024.17 abaacab ~~ Xabddcabaacab - Rakudo Weekly News
rakudoweekly.blog 2024.17 abaacab ~~ XabddcabaacabJohn Haltiwanger dove into a very obscure regex issue and managed to trace it back to a MoarVM optimization that was done in 2018. And implemented a fix for it. Kudos, as this really was a weird ed…
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2024.16 Incredibly Concise - Rakudo Weekly News
rakudoweekly.blog 2024.16 Incredibly ConciseAgain, nice exposure for the Raku Programming Language in this week’s Exercism video: “It’s incredibly concise, but not unreadable”! Please keep making those exercises on Ex…
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Exorcism for Exercism - Anton Antonov
rakuforprediction.wordpress.com Exorcism for ExercismThis post uses different prompts from Large Language Models (LLMs) to uncover the concealed, provocative, and propagandistic messages in the transcript of the program “10 ways to solve Scrabb…
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2024.14/15 1K+ / 75%+ - Rakudo Weekly News
rakudoweekly.blog 2024.14/15 1K+ / 75%+Stefan Seifert resumed working on RakuAST. And how! In a matter of just over a week, not only did we cross the 1024 boundary of number of “spectest” files completely passing, we also cr…
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Propaganda in “Integrating Large Language Models with Raku” - Anton Antonov
rakuforprediction.wordpress.com Propaganda in “Integrating Large Language Models with Raku”This post applies the Large Language Model (LLM) summarization prompt “FindPropagandaMessage” to the transcript of The Raku Conference 2023 (TRC-2023) presentation “Integrating La…
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Wisdom of “Integrating Large Language Models with Raku” - Anton Antonov
rakuforprediction.wordpress.com Wisdom of “Integrating Large Language Models with Raku”This post applies various Large Language Model (LLM) summarization prompts to the transcript of The Raku Conference 2023 (TRC-2023) presentation “Integrating Large Language Models with Raku&#…
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Letting mere mortals run Windows PowerShell scripts - Paul Cochrane
peateasea.de Letting mere mortals run Windows PowerShell scriptsWhile playing with Raku and rakubrew on Windows recently, I encountered more than one stumbling block. One stuck out in particular. Did you know that, by default, Windows PowerShell doesn’t allow normal users to run scripts? Coming from a Unix background, that surprised me. You might come across thi...