Perl Weekly #653 - Perl & Raku Conference 2024 to Host a Science Track!
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Published: 2024-01-29 07:34:57

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Originally published at [Perl Weekly 653](https://perlweekly.com/archive/653.html)


Hi there!

If you are monitoring the number of subscribers of the <a href="https://perlweekly.com/">Perl Weekly</a> that we have on the front page, you can see that it dropped by more than 70 today.

That's because after a long period of time I went through the bounce-reports of Sendgrid, the provider I use to send the messages. There were many  reporting <b>No such user</b> or that <b>the email account that you tried to reach is over quota and inactive.</b>. I know I missed some and more will appear in the list next week, but it was enough for today.

BTW, we store the historical data in the src/count.txt file in our <a href="https://github.com/szabgab/perlweekly">repository</a>. If I am not mistaken it peaked on week 370-371 with 6,449 subscribers. Now we are down to 4,523 that we had between the weeks 113-114.

Have a nice week!

  --
  Your editor: Gabor Szabo.


## Announcements

  
### [Perl & Raku Conference 2024 to Host a Science Track!](https://blogs.perl.org/users/oodler_577/2024/01/perl-raku-conference-2024-to-host-a-science-track.html)



  

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## Articles

  
### [#12in24: Learning Perl in 4h.](https://dev.to/amtzespinosa/12in24-learning-perl-in-4h-2d7g)

Yes, you can learn a new language in just 4 hours. - So what do you think about Alex explaining Perl? Comment on his post on DEV!

  
### [getfh in Mail::IMAPClient](https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/19fi2ue/getfh_in_mailimapclient/)



  
### [Are there any modules for GitHub flavored markdown?](https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1abl4j9/are_there_any_modules_for_github_flavored_markdown/)



  
### [Trying to understand Arrays in Perl](https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1ad2l0w/trying_to_understand_arrays_in_perl/)



  
### [My 2023 in Perl](https://blogs.perl.org/users/leon_timmermans/2024/01/my-2023-in-perl.html)

2023 was a rather productive year for Leon on CPAN. Aided by taking some time off he managed to release a whopping 18 new modules.

  

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## Grants

  
### [Grant Application: Raku Ecosystem](https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/raku-ecosystem-tonyo)



  

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## Perl

  
### [This Week in PSC (133)](https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2024/01/this-week-in-psc-133.html)



  

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## The Weekly Challenge
<a href="https://theweeklychallenge.org">The Weekly Challenge</a> by <a href="http://www.manwar.org">Mohammad Anwar</a> will help you step out of your comfort-zone. We pick one champion at the end of the month from among all of the contributors during the month.
  
### [The Weekly Challenge - 254](https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-254)

Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Three Power" and "Reverse Vowels". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read the <a href="https://theweeklychallenge.org/faq">FAQ</a>.

  
### [RECAP - The Weekly Challenge - 253](https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/recap-challenge-253)

Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Split Strings" and "Weakest Row" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy.

  
### [Split String Soup](https://jacoby.github.io/2024/01/22/split-string-soup-weekly-challenge-253.html)

Here we got the demo of powerful Perl regex. Well done and thanks for sharing.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge: Week 253](https://www.braincells.com/perl/2024/01/perl_weekly_challenge_week_253.html)

Interesting story with regards to command line arguments with double quote. You must check it out.

  
### [Weakest Strings](https://github.sommrey.de/blog/pwc/challenge-253)

Nice use of quotemeta. It can make life so fun when dealing with quoted strings. Really cool.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge 253: Split Strings](https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2024/01/perl-weekly-challenge-253-split-strings.html)

Cool feature of named arguments in Raku. Always enjoy Raku magics. Keep it up great work.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge 253: Weakest Row and Schwartzian Transform](https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2024/01/perl-weekly-challenge-253-weakest-row-and-schwartzian-transform.html)

Fan of functional programming? Well then you should check this out. Thanks for sharing.

  
### [not so easy handling multidimensional arrays](https://fluca1978.github.io/2024/01/22/PerlWeeklyChallenge253.html)

Raku one-liner is flexing the muscle once again. I must admit, it look cute.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge 253](https://wlmb.github.io/2024/01/22/PWC253/)

Master of Perl one-liner showing off his skill. You really don't want to miss out the fun.

  
### [The Weakest Split](https://packy.dardan.com/2024/01/22/perl-weekly-challenge-3/)

I love the musical reference of weekly challenge. It is fun. Thank you for keeping us entertained.

  
### [Split the weakest](http://ccgi.campbellsmiths.force9.co.uk/challenge/253)

I really enjoy the analysis section of the post. Lots of interesting facts mentioned there. Thanks for your contribution.

  
### [The Weekly Challenge #253](https://hatley-software.blogspot.com/2024/01/robbie-hatleys-solutions-to-weekly_22.html)

Thanks for a gentle reminder of combining sort. We don't use it very often though. Well done.

  
### [You Are the Weakest String](https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/01/The_Weekly_Challenge_253__You_Are_the_Weakest_String.html)

Roger being the champion of so many different programming languages, this must be like walk in the park. In return we got fun solutions. Thank you for everything.

  
### [The weakest split](https://dev.to/simongreennet/the-weakest-split-5ad7)

You must checkout the Perl vs Python approach to solve a task. I just love it. Well done.

  
### [PWC 253](https://thiujiac.blogspot.com/2024/01/pwc-253.html)

Champion of Perl 4. Yes you heard it correct. Highly recommended.

  

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## Weekly collections

  
### [NICEPERL's lists](http://niceperl.blogspot.com/)

<a href="https://niceperl.blogspot.com/2024/01/cdlxxx-22-great-cpan-modules-released.html">Great CPAN modules released last week</a>.

  

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