I had a patch accepted which adds an is_core() function
to Module::CoreList.
This was my first attempt at modifying a core module.
This post describes the function, why I wanted it, and my experience
adding it to a core module. And then fixing the bug I introduced!
I recently released a new version of my PAUSE::Packages module, which caches information about releases on CPAN and makes it easy to iterate over it. In this post I'll cover the motivation for this module, why I decided to transform the existing PAUSE export file, and how David Golden nudged me to use JSON.
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