David Cantrell

Perl grey-beard primarily interested in QA, and a larval-stage Rustacean. I've been computering for longer than most of you have been alive.

Joined on Sep 5, 2018

SQL, perl, Unix, C, Z80, CP/M

Rust, Idris

29 posts published

95 comments written

14 tags followed

David Cantrell

Sep 5

The typeface you didn't know you wanted and were trained to hate

#ui #font #terminal

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David Cantrell

Jun 20

Number::Phone is now 64-bit only

#perl #32bit #deprecation #64bit

1 min read

David Cantrell

Mar 25

cpulimit annoyed me so I improved it

#c #patching #signals

3 min read

David Cantrell

Jan 25

TIL: diff-so-fancy; and some funky git config

#git #diff #shell

1 min read

David Cantrell

Jan 20

A Rant

#rant

1 min read

David Cantrell

Jan 12

Number::Phone release candidate

#perl #telecoms #testing

1 min read

David Cantrell

Jul 17 '22

Automatic cross-platform testing: part 6: 32 bit Linux

#testing #githubactions #ci #32bit

2 min read

David Cantrell

Feb 23 '22

Virtual machine efficiency

#virtualization #virtualbox #utm #macos

3 min read

David Cantrell

Jan 31 '22

A brief guide to perl character encoding

#perl #unicode #mojibake

17 min read

David Cantrell

Dec 13 '21

GNU timeout annoyed me so I replaced it; or an extremely simple introduction to fork() and signal handling in perl

#signals #fork #perl

3 min read

David Cantrell

Sep 28 '21

Automatic cross-platform testing: part 5: OpenBSD

#testing #githubactions #ci #openbsd

2 min read

David Cantrell

Jul 30 '21

perlbrew improved

#perl #git #perlbrew

1 min read

David Cantrell

Jun 22 '21

Deprecating 32-bit perl

#perl #32bit #deprecation

3 min read

David Cantrell

May 4 '21

CPANdeps end of life

#perl #cpan #dependencies

1 min read

David Cantrell

Apr 16 '21

In Praise of the Trackball (and why you should use one)

#humaninterface #mouse #trackball

4 min read

David Cantrell

Dec 9 '20

I Hate Floating Point!

#floatingpoint #types #testing #perl

1 min read

David Cantrell

Nov 11 '20

Tab groups in Chrome

#chrome #tabs #ui

2 min read

David Cantrell

Oct 16 '20

Monitoring dependencies on the CPAN

#perl #cpan #dependencies

4 min read

David Cantrell

Aug 27 '20

GNU tree annoyed me so I fixed it

#shell #perl

2 min read

David Cantrell

Jul 29 '20

Using the `ed` editor

#editors #ed #oldschool

3 min read

David Cantrell

Jun 25 '20

Learning from other industries, part 2 of n

#reliability #management #disasters

3 min read

David Cantrell

Jun 4 '20

Coverage checks, conditions, and simplifying

#coverage #logic

2 min read

David Cantrell

Apr 15 '20

Education in my Plague Bunker

#mit #tools #shell

2 min read

David Cantrell

Mar 2 '20

I have banned 'git commit -a'

#git

1 min read

David Cantrell

Feb 28 '20

Automatic cross-platform testing: part 4: Windows

#testing #appveyor #ci #windows

3 min read

David Cantrell

Feb 28 '20

Automatic cross-platform testing: part 3: MacOS

#testing #cirrusci #ci #macos

1 min read

David Cantrell

Feb 28 '20

Automatic cross-platform testing: part 2: FreeBSD

#testing #cirrusci #ci #freebsd

3 min read

David Cantrell

Feb 28 '20

Automatic cross-platform testing: part 1: Linux

#testing #travis #ci #linux

4 min read

David Cantrell

Mar 26 '19

12 languages in 12 months: ionice for Mac OS, in C

#c #scheduling #unix

3 min read

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