Hello 1980’s!
Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.
Find them all here: 100videos
Earlier today Perl 5.34.0 was released ( perldelta ).
Perl 5.34.0 represents approximately 11 months of development since Perl 5.32.0 and contains approximately 280,000 lines of changes across 2,100 files from 78 authors.
This marks the latest and maybe last release in the Perl 5 series that started way back in 1994 according to wikipedia. Next up should be Perl 7 ( perl7faq ) and that is about time as many assume that Perl is stale due to no major releases in 27 years (!). And no, the Perl 6 / Raku confusion did not help at all and was in my eyes a terribly bad move that did much more damage to the image and brand than it did good.
In case you haven’t figured it out by now, I like perl and have done so since 1995 and I’m not giving up on it.
This is a great and quick overview of what has been added in perl the last couple of releases: https://phoenixtrap.com/2021/05/25/perl-can-do-that-now/
Fan made video turned official (?) of the happiest sad song from swedish Covenant.
Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.
Find them all here: 100videos
It looks like it is a no-go and doesn’t work as expected. At least not in the way I expected it to.
To test my recently installed perl module Data::Lua I wrote a very small test just to see if I could get the data from the file I wanted.
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
# enable perl 5.10 features
use v5.10;
# use these modules
use Carp;
use Data::Dumper;
use Data::Lua;
# === TEST
my $vars = Data::Lua->parse_file('data/indata.lua');
print Dumper($vars);
exit;This should simply take the LUA indata.lua file and parse it into a perl variable, $vars, as described in the perldoc for Data::Lua. Then Data::Dumper will just print the resulting data structure. Easy. It does run without any errors but it produces a huge output:
$ ./parsetest.pl | wc -l
9773494This can’t be right? My input file is rather small. Something like 10kBytes and a total of 526 lines:
$ wc -l data/indata.lua
526 data/indata.luaA difference of over 9.7 million lines is a tad bit too much to write of easily. Examining the output there is a lot of ‘undef’ lines. Like 9.7 million of them with some data sprinkled in between. Removing these lines makes it look like there is a chance to have the data I want.
$ ./parsetest.pl | grep -v undef | wc -l
526Maybe. There is no way to verify if it is in somewhat correct format etc. unless I put in more time into this. And my input files will be much larger than this test file so producing 99.9% output data that will have to be filtered away before further processing isn’t good.
So in the end I will have to write my own parser. Probably not a generic one but one that solves this particular problem I’m facing. Maybe I’ll write an update on that when I get somewhere.
This video is just such a work of art. Every image brings back memories from when I started to buy records back in the mid 80’s. The song is brilliant too, 100% pop!
Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.
Find them all here: 100videos
Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.
Find them all here: 100videos
Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.
Find them all here: 100videos
These guys just blew my (and everyones) mind in the early 90’s.
Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.
Find them all here: 100videos
It’s just such a nice video 🙂
Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.
Find them all here: 100videos
This hits close to home.
Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.
Find them all here: 100videos