DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation v2025
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For the second consecutive year, The Perl and Raku Foundation (TPRF) isoverjoyed to announce a donation of USD 25,000 fromDuckDuckGo.DuckDuckGo has demonstrated how Perl and its ecosystem can deliver power andscale to drive the DuckDuckGo core systems, plug-in framework and InstantAnswers. The Foundation is grateful that DuckDuckGo recognises the importanceof Perl, and for their generous funding support for a second year throughtheir charitable donations programme. Stuart J Mackintosh, President of The Perl and Raku FoundationLast years donation of USD 25,000 fromDuckDuckGowas instrumental in helping to fund the foundations Core Perl Maintenance Fundand this years donation will help to fund more of the same crucial work thatkeeps the Perl language moving forward.
Paul LeoNerd Evans is one of thedevelopers who gets regular funding from the Perl Core Maintenance Fund. Hereis a short list of just some of the many contributions which Paul has made tocore Perl as part of the maintenance fund work:
- The builtin module (5.36), makingavailable many new useful language-level utilities that were previouslyloaded from modules like Scalar::Util
- The complete featureclass system(5.38), adding proper object-orientation syntax and abilities
- Lexical method support (5.42), adding
my method andthe ->&method invocation syntax for better object encapsulation - Stabilising some of the recent experiments - signatures (5.36),try/catch (5.40), foreach on multiple vars (5.40)
- Ability to use the //= and ||= operators in signatures (5.38),performance improvements and named parameters (upcoming in nextrelease)
- The new any andall keywords (5.42)
We look forward to many more innovative contributions from Paul over the comingyear.While TPRF never takes continued support for granted, when it does arrive, itallows the foundation to plan for the future with much greater confidence.Multi-year partnerships with our sponsors allow us to continue to prioritizeimportant work, knowing that we will have the runway that we need to fund thework which helps to sustain the Perl Language and its associated communities.For more information on how to become a sponsor, please contact:olaf@perlfoundation.org
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Announcing the Perl Toolchain Summit 2026
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The organizers have been working behind the scenes since last September,and today Im happy to announce that the 16th Perl Toolchain Summit willbe held in Vienna, Austria, from Thursday April 23rd till Sunday April26th, 2026.This post is brought to you by Simplelists, a group email andmailing list service provider, and a recurring sponsor of the PerlToolchain Summit.
Started in 2008 as the Perl QA Hackathon in Oslo, the Perl ToolchainSummit is an annual event that brings together the key developersworking on the Perl toolchain. Each year (except for 2020-2022), theevent moves from country to country all over Europe, organised by localteams of volunteers. The surplus money from previous summits helps fundthe next one.Since 2023, the organizing team is formally split between a globalteam and a local team (although this setup has been informallyused before).The global team is made up of veteran PTS organizers, who deal withinvitations, finding sponsors, paying bills and communications. They areLaurent Boivin (ELBEHO), PhilippeBruhat (BOOK), Thibault Duponchelle(CONTRA), Tina Mller(TINITA) and Breno de Oliveira(GARU), supported by Les Mongueursde Perls bank account.The local team members for this year have organized several events inVienna (including the Perl QA Hackathon 2010!) and deal with finding thevenue, the hotel, the catering and welcoming our attendees in Vienna inApril. They are Alexander Hartmaier(ABRAXXA), Thomas Klausner(DOMM), Maro Kollr(MAROS), Michael Krll and HelmutWollmersdorfer (WOLLMERS).The developers who maintain CPAN and associated tools and services areall volunteers, scattered across the globe. This event is the one timein the year when they can get together.The summit provides dedicated time to work on the critical systems andtools, with all the right people in the same room. The attendees hammerout solutions to thorny problems and discuss new ideas to keep thetoolchain moving forward. This year, about 40 people have been invited,with 35 participants expected to join us in Vienna.If you want to find out more about the work being done at the ToolchainSummit, and hear the teams and people involved, you can listen toseveral episodes of The Underbar podcast,which were recorded during the 2025 edition in Leipzig, Germany:Given the important nature of the attendees work and their volunteerstatus, we try to pay for most expenses (travel, lodging, food, etc.)through sponsorship. If youre interested in helping sponsor the summit,please get in touch with the global team atpts2026@perltoolchainsummit.org.Simplelists has been sponsoring the Perl Toolchain Summit for severalyears now. We are very grateful for their continued support.Simplelists is proud to sponsor the 2026 Perl Toolchain Summit, as Perlforms the core of our technology stack. We are grateful that we can relyon the robust and comprehensive Perl ecosystem, from the core of Perlitself to a whole myriad of CPAN modules. We are glad that the PTScontinues its unsung work, ensuring that Simplelists can continue torely on these many tools.
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2 takeaways from Nvidia CEO's CNBC interview and Jim Cramer's advice on the stock
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CEO Jensen Huang explains the "five-layer cake" of the AI buildout and how CoreWeave fits in. He also talks about China.
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TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture
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TikTok's daily average U.S. app uninstalls have increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared to the previous three months, Sensor Tower told CNBC.
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Tech's top CEOs mum after Minneapolis killings, while leaders like Reid Hoffman, Yann LeCun speak out
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While a few leaders have voiced outrage, the tech sector has stayed widely silent after the second fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis this month.
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How I turned my regular tablet into a full-fledged e-reader (whether it's an iPad or Android)
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There's no need for a separate device when your tablet can hold your whole library.
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I tested a cheap car de-icing gadget from Amazon in the winter cold - here's how it fared
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Let's take an inside look at one of the latest viral gadgets on social media - and whether or not it's legit.
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Why your iPhone isn't powered by a solid-state battery yet - even though it beats lithium-ion
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Solid-state batteries have significant advantages over lithium-ion batteries. Here's what stands in the way of mass production.
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The most powerful Lenovo ThinkPad I've tested surprised in ways I didn't expect
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Lenovo's latest ThinkPad P1 is a portable workstation that has it all, but you'll have to be willing to pay to play.
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Microsoft said my Windows 10 PC no longer supported updates - but this software saved it
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0patch provides crucial security updates for Windows 10 and fills the support gap left by Microsoft. Here's my verdict after months of use.
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This Lenovo laptop has no business being this good for work - when it's made for gamers
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Lenovo's LOQ 15AHP10 is a reliable gaming laptop that offers high performance at an accessible price. Here's my verdict after testing.
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