Dean Hamstead @PerlDean

Dean coding in Perl. Probably won't follow you. This account won't tweet or retweet politics. fb.com/groups/perlpro… Sydney, Australia Joined September 2011

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Dean Hamstead @PerlDean

a hour ago

It's okay to under engineer things. Chances are you'll be closer to fit than if you over engineer it.

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Hasen Judi @Hasen_Judi

2 days ago

DHH just declared Docker is annoying as a dev environment and used AAA game rendering an image in 8ms as a baseline for what's reasonable wait time for things

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sanzhar @iboughtbed

a week ago

I started using `rebase` instead of `merge` and now I understand why people were telling me to use rebase

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If you’re using kubernetes for anything other than autoscaling, you don’t need it. If you’re using it for autoscaling, you prob don’t need it either. When I ask why k8s I sometimes hear “for security” (??????????)

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Miguel Prz @niceperl

a week ago

(dcxiv) #perl metacpan weekly report - Time::Piece & Pod::Weaver::Section::SourceGitHub : niceperl.blogspot.com/2025/08/dcxiv-…

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Dean Hamstead @PerlDean

a week ago

This helps demonstrate how bad git is. Just ridiculously complicated.

Døzie @freshakafrancis

a week ago

This helps demonstrate how bad git is. Just ridiculously complicated.

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Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh

a week ago

GitHub feels like a product that isn't used by the people that work there. That can't POSSIBLY be true, I know. I just hit issues everyday that really make me wonder... how can this bug exist? More likely engineers aren't empowered to fix things and are bogged down by red tape.

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Mohammad Sajid Anwar @cpan_author

a week ago

Critical patch released sanitizing all user-supplied values before inserting into HTTP headers. CGI::Simple v1.282 metacpan.org/dist/CGI-Simple

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Dean Hamstead @PerlDean

2 weeks ago

What's preventing your code from safely hitting prod within hours? Eliminate the wasteful manual processes and automate until you can.

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sucks @powerbottomdad1

2 weeks ago

crazy how tech hiring is so competitive and yet the last 5 people hired on my team are almost completely useless

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Dean Hamstead @PerlDean

2 weeks ago

There is a meme that printers are difficult. I have never found them to be so. No major dramas on all major brands. Perhaps because I insist on printers with an Ethernet port - that may ensure that the standard isn't too low.

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Dean Hamstead @PerlDean

2 weeks ago

After 5+ years using what has been released in part as Sapling, now retiring to git I'm shocked how bad of a developer experience it provides. It's obvious given that most people either remember three actions, or try to improve it with aliases & scripts, or use plugins.

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Dean Hamstead @PerlDean

2 weeks ago

Collectd doesn't get enough credit.

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LaurieWired @lauriewired

2 weeks ago

Why do most uninterruptible power supplies still use old, lead-acid battery tech? Nearly every battery in your house (phone, watch, even electric car) is lithium based...except UPSs. It all has to do with battery chemistry. Lead-Acid has some unique advantages:

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Dean Hamstead @PerlDean

3 weeks ago

Systemd is the Jira of init systems

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Dmitrii Kovanikov @ChShersh

4 weeks ago

After programming for 16 years, I noticed that Software Engineer mentality slowly shifted from “produce great code” to “tolerate shit code”

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bearstech @bearstech

4 weeks ago

"Debian stable is now Debian 13 "trixie"!" 👉 bits.debian.org/2025/08/trixie…

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nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft

a month ago

Remember when IT automation was a simpler time? A time when we just wrote a Bash or Perl script and let cron jobs handle the rest. Now, we've traded that simplicity for a vast landscape of tools, and a new kind of complexity has emerged and laughs at us.